Roadrunners fall to Mean Green after early start
Roadrunners fall to Mean Green after early startRoadrunners fall to Mean Green after early start
Jeff Huehn
Women's Basketball

Roadrunners fall to Mean Green after early start

SAN ANTONIO – An early start pushed in the first quarter helped the Mean Green take a 79-55 victory over the Roadrunners Thursday afternoon.
 
UTSA falls to 6-11 overall and 2-4 in conference, as North Texas improves to 9-10, 3-4 C-USA.
 
The Mean Green had an early jump start to the game, scoring 21 points in the first qyarter. North Texas opened the game with a 7-0 run until Charlene Mass made a layup at the 5:55 mark to put UTSA on the board. UNT hit multiple small runs to push the lead in the first as the Roadrunners trailed 7-21.
 
UTSA started the second quarter with a 4-0 run from Evelyn Omemmah and Mikayla Woods to trail 11-21. The Roadrunners hit a 4-0 run to close the gap to seven (16-23) with 7:49 remaining. North Texas hit another run to push its lead even more, 31-16. In the final two minutes, the Roadrunners held the Mean Green to three points as they trailed 22-34 going to the locker room.
 
UNT came out of the locker room with a layup 15 seconds into the quarter, then hit a field goal scoring drought until the 5:54 mark when the Mean Green went on a 7-0 run. In the final two minutes of the quarter, both teams scored six points each as North Texas led 54-34 going to the final 10 minutes.
 
In the first half of the fourth quarter, UTSA went on a 13-11 run to close the gap, but UNT continued to find the basket until the final buzzer.
 
Game Notes

  • Shannan Mitchell scored her first double digit game
  • UTSA shot 37 percent from the field
  • Evelyn Omemmah, Mikayla Woods and Shannan Mitchell all led the team with 11 points each

 
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