LAWTON, Okla. – The Cameron women's basketball team dropped their first home game Thursday evening to Eastern New Mexico 55-42 inside the Aggie gym.
The third straight loss moves the Aggies to 6-8 overall, 3-5 in the Lone Star Conference, and 1-3 in the West Division. CU stays home to host Western New Mexico on Saturday at 1:00 pm.
Alena Wilson recorded her fourth double-double of the season with 14 points and 12 rebounds. She also had an assist, a block and a steal.
Korie Allensworth scored seven points, Katie King, Kailyn Lay, and Karley Miller added five points, Mikayla Peterson recorded four points, and Kiara Lovings had two.
Miller grabbed seven rebounds, LaKya Leslie snagged four, King had three off the boards, Kloe Heidebrecht, Lay, and Peterson added two, and Allensworth and Lovings collected one.
Lay collected three assists, and Alannah Gillespie, Peterson, and Wilson added one assist.
King swiped six steals, Peterson snagged three, and Miller and Wilson grabbed one.
Lay, Miller, and Wilson added a block.
Poor shooting early stymied the Aggies, shooting 2-for-20 from the floor and 0-of-7 from beyond the three-point line in the opening quarter. Cameron did not make a shot in the opening frame over the first five minutes and sixteen seconds before Wilson made a layup, she would add a jumper two minutes later, and Peterson hit two shots from the charity stripe to total six points in the opening frame for the Black-and-Gold. ENMU did not perform much better early, connecting on 4-of-14 attempts from the floor and making 1-of-4 threes to hold a 12-6 lead after one.
CU opened the second quarter on a 6-1 run to cut the score to 13-12 after a Miller three, the lone three-pointer Cameron would make in the game. The Greyhounds would go on a 12-1 rally during a three-and-a-half-minute stretch to build a 25-13 lead with four minutes until the break. Eastern closed the first half on a 10-4 run to build a 35-17 lead at the half.
The Aggies would miss the first five shots of the third quarter, making two free throws, before Lovings made a layup with just under five minutes left in the quarter, with the score at 40-21. Cameron closed the quarter on a 12-2 run to cut it to an 11-point game at 42-31 heading into the final 10 minutes.
In the fourth quarter, the Black-and-Gold would get the game within eight points, but that would be as close as it would be as the Hounds would hold on to win by 13, at 55-42.
