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Tionna Carter
79
Winner High Point HP 13-13,11-6 Big South
71
Presbyterian Presb 10-17,6-12 Big South
Winner
High Point HP
13-13,11-6 Big South
79
Final
71
Presbyterian Presb
10-17,6-12 Big South
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 F
High Point HP 25 19 22 13 79
Presbyterian Presb 20 20 19 12 71

Game Recap: Women's Basketball | | Thad Palmer

Carter, Johnson Lead PC in Setback to High Point

Clinton, S.C. - The High Point women's basketball team pulled away late to fend off a hot-handed Presbyterian College on Tuesday night, 79-71. Tionna Carter led PC with a career-best 28 points and 15 rebounds, while Trinity Johnson added 24 points, seven rebounds, five assists and three steals. Camryn Brown led the Panthers with 23 points and seven assists.

Final Score: Presbyterian - 71  High Point - 79
Location: Templeton Center (Clinton, S.C.)
Records: Presbyterian (10-17, 6-12 Big South) High Point (13-13, 11-6 Big South)

Scoring The Game
Both teams connected on over 50% of their first quarter shots, as High Point built to a 25-20 lead after ten minutes. Jenson Edwards was a perfect 3-of-3 for eight points for the Panthers, while Carter and Shamani Stafford had six points apiece for PC.

Presbyterian continued to stay hot in the second quarter, sinking 7-of-12 (.583) from the floor. Johnson led the Blue Hose with nine points including five free throws. Despite High Point cooling off to sink just 5-15 (.333) from the floor, Camryn Brown heated up and scored 10 points in the quarter and had the visitors leading 44-40 headed into the break.

The Blue Hose took a brief 54-51 lead in the third quarter following a layup from Johnson at 4:57. Brown quickly tied the game with a three, and High Point used a 10-1 run over the next three minutes to take a 61-55 lead following a layup from Edwards at 1:47. The offenses traded baskets before the horn, and the visitors held a six-point lead, 66-59, headed into the fourth.

After trading baskets early in the fourth, Skyler Curran sank a big three at 2:22 to extend the Panthers lead, 75-67. As they did all night, Johnson and Carter came up with big baskets for PC and cut the lead down to four, 75-71, with 47 seconds remaining. However forced to foul, High Point sank its free throws and held on to win, 79-71.

Players of the Game
Tionna Carter and Trinity Johnson combined to score all 31 second-half points for PC and 51-of-71 total points. Carter's 28 points and 15 rebounds were both game-highs and career-bests.

Notables
- Kacie Hall went 2-4 from three and became the fourth player in PC's history to eclipse 200 career three pointers.
- Tionna Carter (28 points) and Trinity Johnson (24 points) were the first two PC players to finish with +20 points since January 4, 2019 when Shamani Stafford and Kacie Hall achieved the feat.
- Tionna Carter's 28 points and 15 rebounds both rank fifth in PC's Division I era for a single game.

Stats of the Game
Presbyterian College shot 52% for the game (28-54), while High Point shot 44% (26-59). The Panthers sank more three pointers, 10-5, and saw an edge at the free throw line, 17-20 (85%) compared to PC's 10-18 (56%). High Point also committed fewer turnovers, 8-17, and scored 16 more points off those turnovers.

Up Next
Presbyterian travels to League-leading Campbell on Saturday, February 29, for a 2 pm game that will be broadcast on ESPN3.
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