Box Score With three players scoring at least 20 points, Loyola completed a season sweep of Brewton-Parker with a 98-69 win Saturday
NEW ORLEANS – For the fifth game in a row, the Loyola Wolf Pack women's basketball team won by double digits over a conference opponent, defeating Brewton-Parker 98-69. Sitting atop the Southern States Athletic Conference standings, Loyola improves to 14-4 overall and 8-2 in conference play.
After a three-game home stand, the Wolf Pack will hit the road for one game as they face the University of Mobile on Feb. 3 at 5:30 p.m.
While Brewton-Parker scored the first two points of the game and kept it close in the first part of the opening quarter, Loyola's most dominant period came in the first 10 minutes, as the Pack scored 23 points while allowing just 12. Tay Cannon couldn't miss in the frame, as she led the team with eight points and five boards while shooting 3-of-3 from the field, 2-of-2 from the free throw line in the first nine minutes of play. Fellow senior Kennedy Hansberry also played well in the quarter, scoring seven points while dishing out two assists.
Loyola scored 25 points in the second quarter, and once again it was Cannon doing most of the heavy lifting. Cannon missed just one shot in the quarter, going 4-for-5 with eight points scored. Taylor Thomas also started to heat up in the second, making both of her attempts from the field, including one three-pointer, with three assists. Sydni Tangle got on the board in the second quarter as well, hitting her first three less than two minutes into the period.
Led by Cannon, Hansberry, and Thomas all scoring in double figures in the first half, Loyola would take a 48-28 advantage into the halftime break.
The Lady Barons scored the first four points coming out of the break, but the Wolf Pack again had a good response, as the home team put up its highest-scoring quarter of the game in the third. Led by Hansberry's seven, Loyola would score 26 total points in the period. Hansberry and Sandra Cannady combined for four trips to the free throw line, with each putting up identical numbers at 3-for-4 in the quarter.
Leading 74-52 heading after three, Thomas closed things out with an 11-point fourth quarter, shooting 5-for-6 in the frame. MG Lymon also checked into the game for six points and two steals in the final nine minutes as Loyola cruised to their fifth-straight win.
Pack Facts
The average margin of victory for the Wolf Pack in the last five games has been 25 points. Today's 29-point win was the second-largest in that span.
Three players scored at least 20 for the Pack, starting with Taylor Thomas, who finished with a game-high 26 points on an efficient 11-for-15 from the field. She also had four assists, six rebounds, and made three triples.
Tay Cannon collected her second double-double of the season after putting up 22 points and 10 rebounds on 9-of-12 shooting from the floor and 4-of-4 at the free throw line. She also had a game-high of four steals.
Kennedy Hansberry led the team with seven total assists to go along with 21 points, four rebounds, and a steal.
Hansberry moved up in the Loyola record book, and she's now seventh all time in career assists with 322.
As a team, Loyola was 39-of-71 from the floor for 54.9 percent, the third-best single-game shooting percentage of the season.
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