Box Score
GEORGE MASON 85, GEORGIA SOUTHERN 64
GEORGE MASON (6-7)
BROWN, Taylor 6-14 6-6 19; PICKARD, Janaa 7-14 4-6 19; WATTS, Talisha 7-9
1-2 15; NGOIE, Sandra 4-8 2-2 13; JACOBS, Kyana 3-3 1-1 7; STRICKLAND,
Cierra 2-10 2-2 6; MOHAMED, Reana 1-1 2-2 4; PETTY-EVANS, Denisha 1-6 0-1 2;
JACKSON, Brittany 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 31-67 18-22 85.
GEORGIA SOUTHERN (3-10)
DUBOSE, MiMi 5-13 4-5 16; JONES, Briana 7-17 1-2 15; KNIGHT, Anna Claire
5-17 1-2 12; KIRKLAND, Sierra 4-14 1-1 9; MCGOWAN, Angel 1-3 2-3 4;
CORCORAN, Kelsey 1-2 1-2 3; DOWLING, Lacie 1-7 0-0 3; MARCUS, Jessica 1-5
0-0 2; COOK, Jordi 0-0 0-0 0; ROBERTS, Danielle 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 25-79
10-15 64.
George Mason.................. 34 51 - 85
Georgia Southern.............. 33 31 - 64
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STATESBORO, Ga. – Janaa Pickard tallied 19 points, 13 rebounds and seven blocked shots, while Taylor Brown added 19 points and nine assists to lead George Mason to an 85-64 women's basketball victory over Georgia Southern Monday night in Hanner Fieldhouse.
MiMi DuBose led the Eagles (3-10) with 16 points to go along with three assists, and
Briana Jones tallied 15 points, eight rebounds, five assists and three blocked shots.
Anna Claire Knight collected 12 points and seven boards.
Sandra Ngoie hit 3-of-5 from behind the arc and scored 13 points off the bench for the Patriots, and Talisha Watts collected 15 points and 10 rebounds, while sinking 7-of-9 from the floor.
George Mason (6-7) outscored Georgia Southern by 20 points in the second half after owning a slim 34-33 advantage at the break. Georgia Southern shot 28 percent in the first frame but held the Patriots to 37 percent, and the Eagles were 10-of-15 from the free-throw line in the stanza to help keep things close. Kept off the free-throw line in the second half (0-for-0), Georgia Southern struggled to score.
"We talked at halftime about not worrying about shots not going down in the first half because they were good shots," said Georgia Southern coach
Chris Vozab. "We just needed to take our time and finish better around the basket. We continued to get some pretty good looks in the second half, and when we weren't able to make them, it wore on us on the other side of the floor."
A 3-pointer by
Lacie Dowling followed by a jumper from Jones trimmed an eight-point Patriot lead to three with 13:33 left in the game. Brown took over from there, scoring seven points in a 12-0 run that put Mason ahead 60-45 with 9:35 to play. The Eagles were unable to work the margin under double digits for the rest of the game.
A pair of Cierra Strickland free throws put the Patriots up by eight points late in the first half, but Georgia Southern scored the final seven points of the frame, capped by two free throws from
Angel McGowan, to make the margin one point at the break.
Georgia Southern returns to Southern Conference action for the remainder of the season, beginning with a 7 p.m. contest at preseason league favorite Chattanooga Saturday, Jan. 4. The Eagles will cap the two-game road swing by facing preseason No. 2 pick Samford Jan. 6, at 7 p.m. (Eastern).
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