Feb. 9, 2005
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UTSA faces Texas-Arlington in key Southland Conference game Thursday
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SAN ANTONIO - Winners of five of their last six games, the UTSA women's basketball team will travel to Arlington, Texas, for a key Southland Conference contest at Texas-Arlington on Thursday, Feb. 10. Tip is set for 7 p.m. at Texas Hall.
UTSA Roadrunners (11-8, 5-3 SLC)
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Texas-Arlington Mavericks (13-7, 8-1 SLC)
Thursday, Feb. 10 • 7 p.m.
Texas Hall • Arlington, Texas
Audio: KSJL 810 AM/goUTSA.com
TIP-OFF
Winners of five of their last six games, the UTSA Roadrunners travel to league co-leader Texas-Arlington tonight...The Roadrunners are 3-4 on the road this season and have won their last two road games...UTSA head coach Rae Rippetoe-Blair (76-58) became the all-time winningest women’s basketball coach at UTSA with the 69-59 win at Lamar last Saturday...UTSA is just four wins shy of tying last season’s win total.
SERIES RECORD AGAINST THE LADY MAVERICKS
UTSA trails in the all-time series with Texas-Arlington 19-15, but the Roadrunners have won six of the last eight meetings. UTSA is 4-12 all-time at Arlington.
A QUICK LOOK AT THE LADY MAVERICKS
Texas-Arlington is 13-7 overall and 8-1 in the Southland Conference. The Lady Mavericks are the league co-leaders with Texas State. Terra Wallace leads UTA with 14.6 points per game, while Rola Ogunoye adds 13.6 points per game. The Lady Mavericks lead the league in scoring defense.
LAST YEAR AGAINST TEXAS-ARLINGTON
The Lady Mavericks handed UTSA a 55-47 setback in Arlington on Jan. 10 but the Roadrunners repaid the favor on Feb. 18 with a 55-43 victory over UTA. In the latter matchup, Katie Sandefur led the Roadrunners with 16 points.
LAST TIME OUT
UTSA 69, Lamar 59 (Feb. 5 at the Montagne Center)
The Roadrunners took a 34-20 lead at halftime and led by as many as 17 in the second half before settling for a 69-59 win against the Lady Cardinals. Junior Lacy Mingee scored a double double with 20 points and 11 rebounds, while Richelle Parks tallied 16. Kim Reed notched 10 points. The Roadrunners shot a season high 80 percent at the free throw line and out-rebounded Lamar 41-37.
FREE TOSSES
Against Lamar last Saturday, the Roadrunners shot a season high 80.6 percent at the free throw line. Nicole Dunson, Katie Sandefur, Terrie Davis and Richelle Parks combined to shoot 12-for-12, and the Roadrunners hit their first 13 at the charity stripe.
OUT OF HER ‘CHELLE’
Freshman Richelle Parks is having one of the best debut seasons ever for the
Roadrunners and scored a career high 28 points at McNeese State on Jan. 20. At Lamar last Saturday, Parks chipped in 16 points off the bench. Parks is currently the only freshman ranked in the top 20 in the league in scoring. She narrowly missed her fourth double-double on Jan. 14 against Nicholls State with 18 points and nine rebounds. Parks continues to lead UTSA in scoring average (13.5 ppg) and rebounding (8.1) and ranks fifth in the league on the boards. At Louisiana-Monroe on Jan. 6, Parks led UTSA with 18 points. Parks recorded her third double-double of the year against UT Martin on Dec. 19 with a freshman-record 26 points and a career high 17 rebounds, including going 10-of-13 from the free throw line. The 5-11 center grabbed 14 rebounds in her collegiate debut against Texas A&M-Corpus Christi and then posted
her first career double-double with 12 points and 10 boards at Tulsa.
WORKING OVERTIME
The overtime contest with Sam Houston marked the first time since Feb. 7, 2004 the Roadrunners played an overtime contest. Before that, it had been all the way back to the 1999-2000 season since UTSA had been in an overtime game.
CAREER GREER
Senior Lyndsey Greer is making her senior year her best season yet as she has already established career highs for points and rebounds this season. Greer, who averaged just 2.7 points last season, tied her career high with 14 points versus SLU on Jan. 29, going 3-of-3 from three-point range. She set a career high for rebounds with seven at Texas A&M on Nov. 30. She is averaging 6.6 points per game this year to rank fourth on the team and also ranks first on the team in minutes played.
QUIETLY MAKING NOISE
Junior forward Katie Sandefur, a native of Kingfisher, Okla., is having a productive season with 6.6 points per game and 5.6 rebounds per game to rank second on the team. She saw her string of 16 consecutive starts snapped on Jan. 29 against SLU but came in to provide five points, four rebounds and three assists. Sandefur established a season high with 15 points against Louisiana-Monroe on Jan. 6. Having shot only 14 free throws all year, Sandefur reached the line 11 times against the Lady Indians. She ranks third on the team with 45 assists and has played in 77 games over her career. She has scored 473 career points, needing just 42 to place her name 25th on the career scoring chart at UTSA.
WHAT A DIFFERENCE
While the Roadrunners are averaging 61.7 points in all games, UTSA has upped its scoring in conference games to 66.4, which ranks fourth in the league in conference games only.
HOLD THAT LEAD
UTSA is 9-1 this season when leading with five minutes remaining. The Roadrunners are also 7-0 when leading at the half and 9-1 when holding a lead with one minute left in the game.
DOWNTOWN DUNSON
Senior Nicole Dunson continued her streak of double figure scoring games with
11 versus Nicholls State on Jan. 14 but saw the streak come to an end at McNeese State on Jan. 20 with nine points. Before the game, She had dotted double figures in six straight contests. She led UTSA with 14 points, playing all 40 minutes, at Northwestern State on Jan. 8 and notched 10 points at Louisiana-Monroe on Jan. 6. She tied her career high with 18 points against Samford on Dec. 30, then added 16 points against Quinnipiac to be named all-Classic at the UTSA New Year’s Classic. The senior transfer ranks third on the team with 8.4 points per game and leads the team in three-pointers made (1.5, 5th in SLC) and free throw percentage (.850). Dunson set a freshman record for most three-pointers in a season at Central Florida as a freshman in 2000-2001, then missed the 2001-2202 with a right shoulder injury. She transferred to UTSA in 2002-2003, sat out per NCAA transfer rules, and then missed last year with a right knee injury.
NEXT UP
The Roadrunners host Texas State on Saturday, Feb. 12 for a 2 p.m contest.