Southern Wesleyan SW 2-11,2-3 Conference Carolinas

Western Caro. WCU 7-8,0-0 SoCon

Southern Wesleyan SW

2-11,2-3 Conference Carolinas

Final

Dec. 30, 2022

Western Caro. WCU

7-8,0-0 SoCon

Score By Periods
Team	1	2	3	4	F
Southern Wesleyan SW	14	10	7	15	46
Western Caro. WCU	23	9	19	13	64

Summary
Box Score

Mark Haskett

Game Recap: Women's Basketball | 12/30/2022 8:37:00 PM | Denise Gideon, Director of Media Relations

Allison's 20 Points Paces Catamounts to Victory

Final non-conference game of the season

The Basics
Score: Western Carolina 64, Southern Wesleyan 46
Records: Western Carolina 7-8; Southern Wesleyan (Exhibition)
Location: Ingles Court in the Ramsey Center – Cullowhee, N.C.

CULLOWHEE, N.C. – Graduate student Kyla Allison scored 14 second half points, ending the game with a game-leading 20, as Western Carolina women's basketball closed out its non-conference schedule with a 64-46 win over Southern Wesleyan on Ingles Court in the Ramsey Center.

Turning Point:
Western Carolina shot 41.5 percent from the field, holding the Warriors to 21.4 percent, and was proficient at the free throw line hitting 15-of-22.

Individual Leaders

Allison had 20 points and just missed a double-double with nine rebounds.
Joi Reid came off the bench to pour in 12 points and was also 4-of-7 from the free throw line.
Sophomore Jacey Justice got her first start of the season hitting three three-pointers, for nine points, and ripped down seven rebounds.
Tristen Berry led Southern Wesleyan with 12 points.

Inside the Box Score

For the first time in two games Western Carolina got out to a hot start scoring 23 first quarter points. Overall, WCU shot 61.6 percent from the field in the first 10 minutes of the contest.
The game was tied twice early but Endia Holliday's field goal, just outside the paint, at the 6:43 mark of the first quarter, handed the Catamounts a 6-4 lead and WCU never trailed again.
WCU enjoyed its largest lead, of 23 points, with 2:46 left in the third quarter, before Southern Wesleyan made a mini run.
The Warriors cut the Catamount lead to 12, with 5:08 remaining but WCU scored the final six points of the game.
Western Carolina worked the paint against the Warriors scoring 24 points.
As a team Western Carolina dished out 13 assists.
WCU got the rebounding edge with 47 to Southern Wesleyan's 35.
The Catamounts had five three pointers while Southern Wesleyan had six.
WCU got 18 points from its bench.

News & Notes

Allison has scored in double figures in the last four games and six of the last seven.
Allison scored 20 or more points for the second time this season and is the only Catamount to pour in 20 or more points twice this season.
Western Carolina has dished out double digit assists nine times on the year.
The Catamounts halted a two-game losing streak with the win over Southern Wesleyan.
Western Carolina's seven wins on the year equals the Catamounts' point total from 2021-22. It is the first time WCU has had seven non-conference wins, before the start of Southern Conference play, since 2014-15 when the club won eight.
Justice's seven rebounds is a career high.
Her nine points ties her career high.
Reid just missed tying her career-high with 12 points one under her best mark of 13 she scored twice in her career.
Reid also dished out a season-best four assists.
Western Carolina's 64 points is the fifth best point total this season and the fifth total time the Catamounts have scored 60 or more points.