Cold Shooting Hits Racers at Central Arkansas

Saturday, November 28

Conway, Ark.

2 p.m.

Murray State

2-4

Central Arkansas

4-1

Team	1	2	3	4	F
Murray State	5	5	13	17	40
Central Arkansas	13	9	11	17	50

11/28/2015 4:30:00 PM | Women's Basketball

Box Score

For the second time in just seven days, the Murray State women were defeated by 10 points by Central Arkansas. The Racers fell Saturday on the road in Conway, Ark., 50-40.

After a sluggish first half, in which MSU (2-4) scored just 10 points and shot 3-of-17 from the floor, the Racers battled back multiple times in the second half after trailing by 12 at the break. The Racers opened the second half scoring the first five points of the third quarter to make it 22-15 before UCA (4-1) answered, much like they did in the first meeting, with a 6-2 run and ended the quarter with a 10-point lead, 33-23.

In the fourth, UCA opened up its lead and held its biggest margin of the contest, 39-26 with 5:43 left to play. MSU was able to battle back and cut the deficit to eight, 41-33 with 3:24 remaining, but that was as close as the Racers would get.

LeAsia Wright led all scorers with 19 points in the contest and was the only Racer in double figures. Bianca Babic and Abria Gulledge each added five apiece while Kyra Gulledge scored four and pulled down a game-high 11 boards.

MSU was better on the boards in this game then the last against the Sugar Bears, in which they got out-rebounded 48-27. Saturday, the Racers were out-rebounded 41-33 and were at a 15-3 disadvantage in second-chance points. UCA also held a 26-10 edge in points in the paint and held MSU to a season-low 10 bench points.

For the game, MSU shot 29.3 percent (12-of-41) while Central Arkansas went 18-for-54 (33.3 percent). UCA went just 1-of-10 from 3-point range while MSU was 5-of-14 from deep. UCA shot 54 percent (13-of-24) from the free-throw line while the Racers went 11-of-18 for 61 percent.

The Racers return home for just their third game of the season as they will host Southern Illinois on Dec. 2 in a 6 p.m. tip.