INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – The Georgia Southern women's basketball team closed out a four-game road swing Saturday afternoon at Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). The Eagles fell 83-57 to the Jaguars inside the Jungle as the Jags benefitted from five players scoring in double figures.

Georgia Southern (2-4) shot 40.4% (21-52) from the field, including 53.8% (7-13) in the third quarter and 63.6% (7-11) in the fourth, but a 2-for-12 (16.7%) second period hampered the Eagles' efforts early on.

Senior Patrice Butler led the Eagles with 15 points, including two three-pointers. All five freshmen played valuable minutes highlighted by the tandem of Nakol Franks and Amira Atwater. The pair of guards each scored eight points with Franks draining two of her three treys. She finished the game 3-for-5 from the field while Atwater contributed three rebounds.

Fellow freshmen Alexis Brown and Hailey Dias-Allen each had six points as Brown went 2-for-3 from the field, 2-for-2 at the charity stripe and also had two assists, a steal and one block. Dias-Allen was 2-for-3 in shooting and corralled in a pair of rebounds. Victoria Stavropoulos, playing in front of a large group of family and friends thanks to Indianapolis's close range to her hometown of Orland Park, Ill., scored the first two points of her collegiate career in four minutes of work.

IUPUI (4-1), which shot 50.0% (30-60) from the field, was led by Mikale Rogers and Danielle Lawrence with 14 points each. The Jaguars hit 16 three-pointers in the game, including four by Lawrence, four by Caitlyn Tolen and three each by Sydney Hall and Holly Hoopingarner.

THE STORY
The Jags raced out to a 22-14 lead in the first quarter despite the Eagles working hard to contain the hot-shooting Jaguars. However, Georgia Southern suffered through a stretch without a field goal that began with 1:34 to go in the first quarter and wasn't broken until Franks hit a three-pointer with 3:04 to go in the second.

QUOTE FROM COACH KIP DROWN
"That was a good basketball team we played today. They played very well today. Any time a team has 30 baskets, 22 of them off assists and they shoot 50% from the field, not many people are going to beat you. They passed the basketball to each other very well, shot the eyes out and had five players in double figures and another with nine points. Looking at those stats, you can understand how they played in the WNIT last year and they are a really good team. But I'm disappointed because I thought we would come in and compete much better than we did. We had a bad streak in the second quarter where we had only six points and we kind of buried ourselves at that point."

NEXT UP
The Eagles finally return home to the friendly confines of Hanner Fieldhouse on Tuesday, Nov. 29 for an 11 a.m. game against in-state rival Mercer. The game will serve as Georgia Southern's second-annual Field Trip Day.


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