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STEPHENVILLE – The No. 25 Tarleton TexAnns (16-3, 3-1 LSC) benefited from a 12-4 run late in the second-half and came away with 70-64 victory over Abilene Christian (12-7, 2-2 LSC) in Lone Star Conference South Division play at Wisdom Gym on Wednesday.
Six different TexAnn players scored a basket from 10:53 to 3:41 in the second period that helped give Tarleton an 11-point lead – the largest lead of the night – to go up 61-50 on the Wildcats.
Shedera Bowman began the run with a lay-up to make it a 51-46 game in favor of the TexAnns. Following a lay-up from ACU's Courtney Laing, JoAnne Jones made a lay-up of her own at the other end of the court to put the Texanns back up by five, 53-48. Jamie Meyer sank a pair of Wildcat free throws at the 6:53 mark and Shleby Adamson scored 30 seconds later as the shot clock was expiring to make it 55-50. Consecutive baskets from Sonya Sundberg, Morgan Stehling and Kelsey Benford put the TexAnns on top 61-50 and ACU would never recover.
The Wildcats managed to pull within six points when a lay-up from Kelsey Darby-Holson and a three-pointer from Kat Kundmueller made it a 61-55 game, but Tarleton answered with a lay-up form Sundberg to increase the TexAnn lead back to eight points.
ACU managed to get the game within four points with just 11 seconds remaining, but as the TexAnns were forced to do last Saturday in Canyon, the Wildcats had to foul. Sundberg and Adamson each made their free throw attempts in between a Darby-Holson lay-up and Tarleton picked up the six-point win.
Adamson finished the game with 20 points after going 8-for-13 from the field and Jones followed with 14 points on 7-of-14 shooting. Stehling added 13 points and Sundberg tallied 11 as well.
Jones grabbed nine rebounds on the night, coming within a rebound shy of recording her second double-double of the season. Stehling and Brittnie Haley each had seven boards for the TexAnns on the evening.
Tarleton forced 16 turnovers, which it turned into 15 points. ACU meanwhile scored just six points off Tarleton's season-low six turnovers.
Darby-Holson led the Wildcats with 17 points on the night. Meyer followed with 16 points while her sister, Jamie, grabbed a game-high 10 rebounds.
Tarleton out-rebounded the Wildcats 45-39, despite ACU having pulled down more offensive boards (18-15). The TexAnns shot .425 percent from the field on the evening and ACU finished shooting .417.
It was just the fifth win for the TexsAnns over the Wildcats inside Wisdom Gym and ninth overall in a series that dates back to 1980.
Tarleton returns to the court this weekend as the team travels to play Texas A&M-Kingsville on Saturday, Jan. 30. Tip-off is set for 5 p.m. at the Stienke Center in Kingsville.
