Austin Peay Sports Information
Clarksville, TN – An eight-minute stretch without a field goal doomed Austin Peay State University women’s basketball in a 72-61 loss to Ohio Valley Conference leader SIU Edwardsville, Wednesday night at the Dunn Center.
Austin Peay (7-14, 5-3 OVC) led by nine points, 40-31, early in the third quarter thanks to a 12-2 run that started at the second quarter’s end.
Austin Peay then opened the third quarter with an 8-2 run, capped by junior center Tearra Banks‘ layup with 6:08 left in the third.
SIUE (13-9, 8-1 OVC) kept the APSU lead from growing larger, trading baskets over the next three minutes. The Govs would push its lead to five points one final time when senior guard Tiasha Gray hit a jumper with 2:32 left in the third.
However, Austin Peay would not hit a shot the rest of the third quarter, SIUE closing the period with a 6-0 run to take a 47-46 lead into the fourth quarter.
The Governors shooting woes continued into the final frame, failing to make a field goal over the opening 5:22. All told, Austin Peay went nearly eight minutes without making a shot from the floor, going 0-for-10 with five turnovers. The Cougars capitalized on the drought with a 22-5 run and led by 12 points, 63-51, before Gray hit a jumper with 4:38 left in the game to end the drought.
Austin Peay would get the deficit back to single digits twice in the final three minutes, but could not get closer than nine points the rest of the way.
Gray led Austin Peay with 20 points on 8-of-18 shooting, adding seven steals, four assists and three rebounds. Banks added 13 points off the bench, but was held to 5-of-12 shooting.
The Govs made 19 of their first 38 shots before the game-deciding drought. Austin Peay closed the game making just four of their final 17 and finished the game making 41.8 percent for the game.
Senior guard Shronda Butts led SIUE with 20 points, one of a quartet of Cougars to reach double-digit scoring territory. Donshel Beck added a 17-point, six-rebound performance while Lauren White supplied 14 points and CoCo Moore chipped in 10 points.
SIUE shot 54 percent from the floor, making 16 of their final 23 shots. The Cougars also made APSU pay for its miscues, turning 22 Govs turnovers into 34 points.
Austin Peay begins a four-game OVC road trip with a 3:00pm, Saturday contest at Southeast Missouri.
Box Score
SIU Edwardsville (13-9/8-1 OVC) 72, Austin Peay (7-14/5-3 OVC) 61
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SIUE | 12 | 17 | 18 | 25 | 72 |
| Austin Peay | 14 | 18 | 14 | 15 | 61 |
SIUE 72
| Player | FGM -FGA |
3FGM -3FGA |
FTM -FTA |
OFF -DEF |
TOT | PF | TP | A | TO | BLK | STL | MIN |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shronda Butts | 7-13 | 0-2 | 6-8 | 0-2 | 2 | 1 | 20 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 35 |
| Donshel Beck | 8-9 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-6 | 6 | 0 | 17 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 32 |
| Lauren White | 4-7 | 0-1 | 6-8 | 1-0 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 28 |
| Sidney Smith | 2-6 | 2-6 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 25 |
| Gwen Adams | 1-4 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 1-7 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 20 |
| CoCo Moore | 4-5 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 1-3 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 23 |
| Sydney Bauman | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 13 |
| Raven Warford | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1-0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 13 |
| Erin Kelley | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 11 |
| TEAM | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 3-2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 27-50 | 2-10 | 16-20 | 9-25 | 34 | 16 | 72 | 13 | 26 | 4 | 15 | 200 |
Austin Peay 61
| Player | FGM -FGA |
3FGM -3FGA |
FTM -FTA |
OFF -DEF |
TOT | PF | TP | A | TO | BLK | STL | MIN |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tiasha Gray | 8-18 | 2-6 | 2-2 | 0-3 | 3 | 4 | 20 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 39 |
| Beth Rates | 2-5 | 0-0 | 3-4 | 2-3 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22 |
| Sydney Gooch | 3-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1-5 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 27 |
| Falon Baker | 1-6 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 23 |
| Keisha Gregory | 1-4 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 30 |
| Tearra Banks | 5-12 | 0-0 | 3-5 | 3-1 | 4 | 1 | 13 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 18 |
| Madison Rich | 1-1 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 17 |
| Brianne Alexander | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| Symantha Norton | 0-1 | 0-1 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 |
| Shelby Olszewski | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| April Rivers | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| TEAM | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 23-55 | 3-12 | 12-15 | 9-16 | 25 | 22 | 61 | 11 | 22 | 2 | 11 | 200 |
