The LU women’s basketball team split their games last week, beating Charleston Southern Thursday night and losing to Presbyterian Saturday afternoon.
Raven Williams had a game-high twenty points with four three-pointers and six assists. Kyndal Skersick scored 15 points of her own and Daeisha Brown recorded her second double-double of the season with 16 points and 10 rebounds.
With this win, the team snapped a six game losing streak against Big South opponents. The Lancers jumped out to an early lead with an 8-2 run but Charleston Southern responded.
The Lancers went on a 9-0 run where Brown had four points. The whole game was a series of runs from Charleston Southern trying to take the lead and Longwood answering back, extending the lead.
The closest score in the first half was 26- 25 Longwood with five minutes left to play. The game was tied in the second half 42-42 but the Lancers went on a 7-0 run that was answered by CSU. Then Longwood scored 14 unanswered points in a five-minute span to put the game out of reach.
On Saturday, the team hosted a “Pink Out” game in support for breast cancer research. Students were encouraged to wear pink apparel to the game and the first 250 fans would receive a free pink t-shirt from the Longwood Athletics Department. Longwood fell short to Presbyterian in that game, 66-61.
Skersick had a game-high 19 points and went 6-for-6 at the foul line. The game was a back-and-forth battle between the two teams who throughout the game countered each other with runs of their own. They tied four times before entering the half with Longwood up 30-27.
The Lancers started off strong in the second half just as they did in the first, scoring seven of the first nine points following the break. Longwood had a 40-35 lead before Presbyterian went on a 25-7 run which lasted seven and a half minutes. That led to Presbyterian’s biggest lead of the day, 60-47, with under five minutes to go in the game.
The Lancers put up the fight but fell short of making the comeback. The offensive game was there for the Lancers shooting 48 percent from the field, 31 percent behind the three point line, and 80 percent from the free throw line.
Weather permitting, Longwood has two games on the slate this week: at Gardner- Webb Thursday night at 7 p.m. and at UNC Asheville on Saturday at 2 p.m. Those two games are the final road games for the team this year, as they’ll come home after that set for a three-game homestand against Winthrop, Radford and and Liberty to wrap up the regular season.
