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63
UTRGV UTRGV 7-8
68
Winner CSU Bakersfield CSUB 6-10
UTRGV UTRGV
7-8
63
Final
68
CSU Bakersfield CSUB
6-10
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 F
UTRGV UTRGV 19 15 15 14 63
CSU Bakersfield CSUB 12 15 15 26 68

Game Recap: Women's Basketball |

`Runners Tame Vaqueros Late With 68-63 Win



BAKERSFIELD, Calif. – CSU Bakersfield women's basketball did not disappoint in its Western Athletic Conference home opener against University of Texas Rio Grande Valley on Thursday night. The Roadrunners found the will to pull a 68-63 win out in the final period to improve 6-10, 2-1 WAC while the Vaqueros fell 7-8, 1-1 WAC.
 
Bakersfield scored six-straight points to start the first quarter before UTRGV followed with their own offensive surge to tie the score 8-8 with 3:14 left on the clock. The Vaqueros would close the period on an 11-4 run and outscore the home team 19-12 through the first 10 minutes of the contest.
 
The seven-point deficit remained heading into the fourth period with both teams scoring 15 points back-to-back in the second and third. 
 
RGV opened the fourth quarter with a triple to extend their lead to 10 points, the largest of the contest. Their double-digit lead quickly evaporated from a Roadrunner 8-0 run and it was a two-point game with over eight minutes to play in regulation. The score was tied four times in the last five minutes of the game. Knotted 63-63 with just under two minutes, CSUB finished the quarter with a 5-0 run for the final 68-63 victory.
 
Ashley Austin led Bakersfield in scoring for the first time with a career and game-best 21 points on 8-of-11 shooting while Alexxus Gilbert and Vanessa Austin each added 12 to round out the Roadrunners' double-figure scorers.  


 
UP NEXT
The CSU Bakersfield women's basketball team will close its two-game home stand with Western Athletic Conference preseason favorite New Mexico State (9-6, 1-1 WAC).
 
~GoRunners.com~­

 
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