Furman Ladies Basketball Faces Elon at Timmons Arena
Tonight, the Furman Paladins Women’s Basketball (6-5) team faces off with the Elon Phoenix Team (2-7) this year here at Timmons arena. Furman coming off a rough loss at USC Upstate will be coming into the game wanting to establish itself in a dominate way versus Elon.
Elon takes the early lead and its 13-4 in the contest as Furman has yet to get the ball where it wants in the basket. Well, at the first media timeout, Furman is behind 13-6 with 2 points on fast breaks, and 6 of the points was in the point, they have yet to get a outside point as Elon is playing great defensive ball tonight.
Furman comes out of the timeout and gets two scores and its 13-11 Furman trailing Elon by 2 points now. Furman now with the end of the first quarter leads Elon 21-13. Furman with 14 points in the paint, 7 points off turnovers, and 8 points off the bench now.
Paladins in the lead right now 24-13 and looking to extend its lead with 8 minutes left in the half. The Paladins hit a key 3 pointer and Elon takes a timeout down 27-13 in the half. Jada Session leads with 9 points, Niveya Henly also has 5 points leading Furman. Media Timeout as we have 5:24 left in the half and Furman leads 27-17 a ten-point lead for Furman over Elon.
Furman with 3 minutes left is up 31-17 as we are coming to the end of the half, still allot of basketball left. Jada Sessions is taking control of this game with her shooting so far over Elon, its 35-17 with 1:37 left in the game. We come to the half as Furman goes into the locker-room with a 20-point lead, Jada Session leads with 15 points 5 rebounds, Niveya Henley 7 points 3 rebounds, and Jaelyn Acker 6 points for the Paladins.
We start the 3rd quarter with Furman in the lead, as the Lady Paladins want to come out and finish this game off versus a very stingy Elon team which has been playing great defensive ball it’s just had some ball shooting issues and lots of turnovers. Jada Session shows her dominance with 21 points now with 2 fouls at the moment. as we go to a media timeout with under 5 minutes in the half.
Furman has 16 points of the bench, 28 points in the paint, 18 points off turnovers, and 5 second chance points so far in the game. The score is 48-23 with4 minutes left in the quarter, and Elon playing strong here trying to get back in the game. We are under 2 minutes with the score 51-27 as the Paladins shoot two and we get one of the two, then we are seeing Elon really giving Furman fits regardless of the score, they just can’t get a shot to go in, and Furman is getting the rebounds underneath. the quarter ends with the score 53-29 Furman in the lead so far with one quarter left to go.
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We have 5:20 left in the game, and Elon working on getting back in the game, but Furman is holding them at the moment, its 63-39. Media timeout for the teams as Furman looks to be heading to a win this week, unless Elon goes on a huge scoring run.
Furman will play keep away and try to keep frustrating this Elon team, tonight the Lady Paladins are really giving the Phoenix a great game tonight. Hats off to this Elon team as they are giving the Paladins a great game, just shooting is keeping them from being closer in the score. we 73-45 our score as Furman is winning in the paint huge tonight and great rebounding.
