Sophomore Shellie Kaniut paced three double-figure scorers with a game-high 19 points and the Emory women's basketball team got back into the win column Tuesday evening with a victory over Sewanee. The Eagles snapped a two-game losing streak and raised their record to 4-2 following a 68-45 decision over the Tigers who slipped to 4-1.

Kaniut sank eight-of-11 field goal attempts, including three-of-four from three-point range, in registering her fourth double-digit contest of the season.  Kaniut also accounted for four of the team's 15 steals. Junior Khadijah Sayyid picked up 15 points and led the squad in rebounding for the fifth time this year with nine caroms.  Rounding out the team's double-figure scorers was sophomore Michelle Bevan who came off the bench to chalk up a career-high 11 points. 

Emory connected on 40.9 percent (27-of-66) from the floor and held the visiting Tigers to 31.3 percent (15-of-48), the fifth time this year it held an opponent to less than 40 percent. After shooting just 13.5 percent from three-point range their previous two games, the Eagles found their collective shooting eye against Sewanee, hitting seven-of-18 from beyond the arc. 

Emory trailed by a 10-9 count before exploding for a 14-0 blitz, sparked by a pair of Sayyid triples and five points from Kaniut,  in bolting to a 23-10 lead. The Tigers cut their deficit to nine points with 3:31 left in the first stanza, before Emory scored six of last eight points, five coming by Kaniut, in claiming 31-18 at the break.  Kaniut and Sayyid provided the bulk of the team's offense in the opening half with 12 and 11 points, respectively.

Following a Sewanee bucket that made the score 44-30 in Emory's favor, the Eagles rang up seven unanswered points, started by a Kaniut trey, that extended their lead to 51-30 with 11:16 remaining in the contest. From there, the closest the Tigers would get would be 18 points with Emory leading by as many as 26 following a three pointer by sophomore Fran Sweeney with just under seven minutes on the clock.

Ten of the 12 players who saw action for Emory found their way into the scoring and rebounding columns.