Blinn’s Lady Bucs Beat Lady Roadrunners

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Blinn’s Ke’Asia Williams (23) tries to tie up Angelina College’s Tyanna Barlow (15) during Wednesday’s game. The Lady Roadrunners fell 76-55 at Shands Gymnasium. (AC Press photo/Marcy Flores)

Angelina College’s Lady Roadrunners already had a tall task facing them with the loss of their best player. With La’Neique Nealey, who leads the team in scoring, rebounding and other categories sidelined with an injury, AC found itself facing one of the league’s best defensive teams in the Blinn College Lady Buccaneers.

The Lady Bucs’ defense, which has allowed just 55 points per game all season, swarmed the Lady ‘Runners all game long to take a 76-55 win Wednesday at Shands Gymnasium.

Blinn forced 27 Lady ‘Runner turnovers and allowed just one AC player – Kennethah Harden with 13 points – to reach double figures in scoring.

The Lady Bucs notched their eighth straight win, getting 17 points each from Bryanna Taylor (who hit five of six three-point attempts) and Ke’Asia Williams. Brenisha Coleman added 14 for Blinn (13-5, 6-2).

AC’s ladies put up a fight in the first quarter, with Harden scoring her team’s first six points, all on feeds from Tyanna Barlow, who finished with eight points and four assists. Toraya Bass scored on a runner in the lane and converted the and-one free throw to give the Lady Roadrunners a 13-10 lead midway through the period.

But the Lady Bucs held AC to just nine points in the second quarter, building a double-digit lead they’d hold the remainder of the game.

The Lady Roadrunners (11-7, 4-4) will play at Kilgore College on Saturday. Game time is 2 p.m.

The e-mail address for AC’s Sports Information Director is gstallard@angelina.edu.

Gary Stallard
Sports Information Director Gary Stallard, who also serves as a Liberal Arts Instructor, begins his eleventh season with Angelina College. Following a career as a U.S. Marine, Stallard completed his bachelor’s degree at Stephen F. Austin University, where he majored in English and Journalism. For more than 16 years, he has worked as a sports writer/columnist/photographer for the Lufkin Daily News; he continues to contribute free-lance articles on occasion. Stallard has won several awards for writing, including the Golden Hoops Award for basketball writing in 2003, Regional Sports Writer of the Year in 2004, and the Texas Press Association’s first-place award for column writing in 2007 and in 2014. He has also done basketball, football and baseball radio and live streaming play-by- play and color commentary for an ESPN affiliate. Currently Stallard serves as play-by-play broadcaster for AC basketball, baseball and softball games. Prior to arriving at Angelina College, Stallard taught English at Lufkin High School for four years. He currently teaches Developmental Writing classes at AC. He and his wife Susan live in Lufkin.

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