Lady Mocs vs. Western Carolina - Postgame Notes
1/16/2010 2:00:00 PM | Women's Basketball
Chattanooga Lady Mocs Basketball - Postgame Notes
Western Carolina at Chattanooga
Chattanooga, Tenn. - McKenzie Arena
Jan. 16, 2009
TEAM
- Lady Mocs maintain their lead in the Southern Conference race with a 68-66 win over Western Carolina today...UTC improves to 13-6 overall and 8-2 in league play...the Catamounts, the defending SoCon Tournament champs, fall to 3-14 on the year and 2-6 in the SoCon.
- Senior Shanara Hollinquest sank two FTs to break a 66-all tie with 0.9 seconds left in the game...Chattanooga wins on its last possession for the second-straight home game...freshman Kayla Christopher hit a 3-pt. FG as time expired to give UTC a 57-55 win over Georgia Southern in the last home game on Jan. 4.
- Chattanooga has won its eighth-straight game today...UTC's last loss was 66-74 at Elon on Dec. 17...UTC is 9-1 in its last 10 games.
Lady Mocs are ...
- 7-2 at home on the season.
- 5-0 at home in SoCon action
- 2-4 when trailing at the half...Lad Mocs trailed 35-36 at the break in today's game.
- 10-3 when out rebounding their opponent...won the battle on the glass 42-35 today.
- 5-0 in the month of January.
- Today's attendance of 2339 is the 13th largest crowd for a women's game in McKenzie Arena history.
INDIVIDUAL
Senior Shanara Hollinquest
- Team-high 19 points on 6-14 shooting, 0-1 from 3-pt. range and 7-9 from the FT line
- Game-high 10 boards
- 10th double-double of the season...15th of her career
- With 19 points in the game she moved into sixth place on UTC's all-time score list, passing Katasha Brown (2002-06)...she now has 1,488 career points and needs 244 to pass Alex Anderson (2004-08) for fifth place.
- Went 7-9 from the FT line to set the UTC all-time record for career makes from the charity stripe...She now has 425 makes in 634 attempts for a 67.0 career FT%...she came into the game tied with Regina Kirk (1984-88) at 418 FT's made...Hollinquest is second all-time in FT attempts behind Kirk's 781.
- With 10 boards in the game tonight, Hollinquest passes Kim Brown (1988-93) for seventh all-time at UTC with 769 career boards...needs 74 more to pass Denise Powers (1976-80) for sixth.
Senior Jenaya Wade-Fray
- Scored 13 points on 6-14 shooting, 1-6 from 3-pt. range
- Also added four assists
Freshman Michelle Davis
- Scored 11 points on 5-10 shooting and 1-3 from 3-pt. range
- Tied a season-high with eight boards
