University of Louisiana at Lafayette Athletics
Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns
Georgia State
Turnovers Prove Costly Against Panthers
12/15/2008 6:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
The Cajuns were led offensively by D'Mya Clay. The sophomore guard netted a team-best 17 points in the game. She was followed by Alexis Green who netted 12 points of her own. Mercedes Johnson finished the game with 11 points, while Whitney Dunlap chipped in nine points.
Johnson paced
The Cajuns got out to a rocky start in their first game in 10 days. In the first four minutes of the contest, UL turned the ball over six times. However, despite their miscues,
Over the next five minutes, Georgia State built up a 12-point lead, but the resilient Cajuns battled back and trailed just 18-12 at the second media timeout of the firs half.
The Panthers extended their lead to 20-12, before Green scored the next five points of the game to cut the deficit to just three points. Green's points came off a layup, followed by a triple from the top of the key.
Following Green's five point effort,
The Cajuns answered with an 8-to-0 run to cut the deficit to just three. Johnson converted an and-one opportunity and Bronson Rodgers followed with a pair of free throws to cut the score to 31-25 with just under four minutes to play in the first. Dunlap connected on her second triple of the half with
The two teams traded free throws over the next two minutes before GSU's Danyiell McKeller ended the half with a layup to send the Cajuns into intermission trailing 35-30.
The Panthers began the second half with a 16-to-2 run to extend their advantage to 19 points at 51-32. Green scored the only points for the Cajuns in the run as she bullied her way in the paint for a layup.
Dunlap broke the Cajuns' scoring drought with a trey from the right side to cut the deficit to 16 with
Clay drained a three from the corner to pull the Cajuns to within 11, but back-to-back baskets by the Panthers extended the Georgia State lead back to 15 points at 55-40 with 10-minutes to play.
A 6-to-1 run by the Cajuns narrowed the GSU advantage to just 10 points with
Nine points would be as close as the Cajuns would get as the two teams exchanged baskets over the final eight minutes of the game. Trailing by 10, Johnson made the front end of a pair of free throws to trim the lead to single digits with 53 seconds remaining in the game.
The Ragin' Cajuns will continue play in the Blazer Invitational on Tuesday as they take on the loser of the
UL returns home to begin Sun Belt Conference play with a pair of games to close out the week.
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