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.