Ga. Southwestern GSW 21-5, 13-4

Lander LANDER 19-3, 13-3

Ga. Southwestern GSW

21-5, 13-4

Final

Feb. 19, 2022

Lander LANDER

19-3, 13-3

Score By Periods
Team	1	2	3	4	F
Ga. Southwestern GSW	13	12	18	10	53
Lander LANDER	13	13	20	19	65

Summary
Box Score

Game Recap: Women's Basketball | 2/19/2022 3:50:00 PM

Cange reaches 1,000 career points, Recarte has big game as No. 10 Lander earns crucial PBC win

GREENWOOD, S.C. - Makaila Cange reached 1,000 career points while Miriam Recarte posted a double-double as the No. 10-ranked Lander Bearcats earned a crucial 65-53 Peach Belt Conference victory over Georgia Southwestern Saturday afternoon at Horne Arena.

Lander improved to 19-3 overall and moved past the Hurricanes into second place in the PBC standings at 13-3. North Georgia leads the Peach Belt at 14-2.

Georgia Southwestern fell to 21-5 overall and 13-4 in the conference with its second loss to the Bearcats this season.

The NCAA released the first official Regional Rankings this week. The Bearcats are second, and the Hurricanes are third.

Cange needed 14 points to reach 1,000 and finished with 15 to pace Lander. She also had seven rebounds and four blocked shots despite playing only 23 minutes due to foul trouble.

Recarte scored 13 points for the Bearcats while leading the team with 10 rebounds and six blocked shots. All of her boards were on the defensive end. Recarte has 68 blocks on the season.

Vashae Rideout scored 14 points while pacing the Bearcats with five assists. Amiaya Melvins added 12 points for Lander.

Georgia Southwestern's 6-foot-3 center Kayla Langley led all scorers with 23 points on 10 of 18 shooting from the floor. Ava Jones added 14 points while leading the visitors with seven assists.

Lander committed an uncharacteristic 30 turnovers while making only four of 21 shots from behind the arc (19 percent) but won the game defensively.

The Bearcats blocked 10 shots, caused 25 turnovers, and held Georgia Southwestern to 22 of 61 shooting (36 percent), including only two of 10 from 3-point range (20 percent).

Langley had two baskets, a steal and an assist as the Hurricanes took a 6-0 lead. Rideout's layup in transition tied the game at 6, and there would be four more ties in the first quarter which ended in a 13-all deadlock.

After the sixth tie of the game at 15-all, Lander grabbed the lead with a 7-0 run. Cierra Revelle hit a deep 3-pointer, Melvins made an acrobatic layup, and Recarte added a layup off a turnover to give the Bearcats a 22-15 advantage with 5:26 left in the half.

Rideout's 3-pointer gave Lander a 26-19 lead with 2:42 to go. But Georgia Southwestern closed the half with a 6-0 run and trailed 26-25 at the intermission.

The Hurricanes stretched their run to 10-0 with the first two baskets of the third quarter. The Blue and Gold tied it at 29 on Cange's 3-pointer from the top of the key and at 31 on Aniaya Jester's layup off a backdoor pass from Cange.

Lander trailed 37-33 but flipped the game around with an 8-0 run. Melvins swished a 3-pointer from the left wing, Rideout made a driving layup off a Recarte blocked shot, and Jakiyah Parker found Cange inside for a layup and three-point play as the Bearcats were up 41-37 with 3:34 left in the third. They would not trail again.

Yasmin Perez's long 3-pointer from the top of the key with seven seconds left trimmed Georgia Southwestern's deficit to 46-43 going into the final quarter.

The Bearcats started the final period with a big 6-0 run. Cange converted a layup to reach 1,000 career points, while Rideout made a driving layup and then added a layup off a bounce pass from Melvins for a 52-43 lead inside the eight-minute mark.

Jester's fast-break layup gave Lander a 56-49 lead with 5:37 to go.

A second consecutive basket by Melvins upped the Bearcat advantage to 60-51 at the 4:19 mark. Jester, Cange and Sarah Crews made a combined five of six free throws down the stretch to clinch the victory.

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