Box Score The No. 22 Wolf Pack hosted their first home game of the season Saturday, defeating Louisiana Christian University at Tulane's Devlin Fieldhouse
NEW ORLEANS – After five straight games away from Freret Street to start the season, the 22nd-ranked Loyola Wolf Pack women's basketball team finally got to play a home game at Tulane's Fogelman Arena in the Devlin Fieldhouse. In the first of consecutive home games, the Wolf Pack defeated Louisiana Christian University 87-53 to win their fifth straight win and improve their record to 5-1.
The Wolf Pack will be back at Devlin Fieldhouse Tuesday, hosting Dillard for their annual School Day game. Tip-off is scheduled for noon.
Tay Cannon scored Loyola's first four points, giving it the early 4-2 lead, then a 3-pointer by Taylor Thomas was answered by LCU to tie the game at 7-7 midway through the opening frame. Down by two, Sandra Cannady and Thomas scored, followed by another score by Cannady to make it a 13-9 Loyola lead with 2:48 left in the first. Jazmene McMillan and Kennedy Hansberry got on the board for the Pack to help take a 17-14 lead after 10 minutes.
Kate Petrovic was feeling it to start the second quarter, sinking two 3-pointers in the first three minutes to push the lead to 23-16. Hansberry got in on the action from deep, too, drilling a 3 moments after the pair by Petrovic, who wasn't done making an impact from beyond the arc. The Cypress, Texas, native made her third 3-pointer of the quarter immediately after Hansberry's, giving the Pack a nine-point lead, 29-20.
After a Cannady score, Thomas scored the team's next six points, adding another 3-pointer, then the junior assisted Petrovic for another score, 39-25, with three minutes left in the half. Thomas and Cannon each notched two points down the stretch to take a 43-30 lead into the break.
Cannon, again, got Loyola started at the start of the second half, pulling down a rebound, racing down the floor, and finding Cannady for a lay-in basket, 45-30. Tera Snell added onto the lead with a second-chance bucket, 47-30, and Sydni Tangle got her first points moments later to put Loyola ahead 49-33 two minutes into the third quarter. Louisiana Christian started to cut into the Pack's lead, though, making it a seven-point Loyola advantage midway through the frame. Cannady and Thomas combined to score the next six points, extending the score back out to double digits, 55-42, and back-to-back steals late in the quarter by Cannady helped make it a 65-46 Wolf Pack lead with 10 minutes to go.
The Wolf Pack dominated the fourth quarter, outscoring the Wildcats 22-7, as Liz Critton, Jada Farrell and MG Lymon all scored to give the team 11 scorers in the game.
Pack Facts
Sandra Cannady led the Pack with her second double-double of the season and the sixth of her career, scoring 16 points while pulling down 10 rebounds.
Kate Petrovic recorded a season-high with three 3-pointers made, also notching a season-high 15 points. All three of her 3s came in the second quarter.
Taylor Thomas also had a season-high in points, leading the team with 17.
Tay Cannon nearly had a double-double with nine rebounds to go along with her 13 points.
Jazmene McMillan was the fifth player in double figures, scoring 10 in Saturday's contest.
Sydni Tangle dished four assists, which is a season-high for the first-year player. Kennedy Hansberry and Thomas also had four assists each.
Loyola's 19 assists was the most the team has put up in the six games this season.
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