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The FIU women’s basketball team
improved to 7-3 on the year and secured its fifth victory in its
last six games with a win over UNC-Greensboro, 71-64 on Fri.,
Dec. 20. Friday’s win marked the third victory in seven
days for the team.
Dace Cinite scored a team-high 16
points, including some key baskets in the final minutes. Cinite’s
lay-up with 1:09 remaining gave FIU a seven-point advantage at
66-59. She then sank two free throws with 42 seconds left to put
the game out of reach for the Spartans.
Free throws were key in the game,
as FIU went 18-for-21 from the free-throw line while the Spartans
managed to make 8-of-15 attempts.
UNC-Greensboro came out blazing and
led by as many as eight points on two occasions early in the game,
including a 27-19 advantage with 4:49 left in the first period.
FIU responded with a 13-5 run to close out the half and entered
the locker room with a 35-32 lead.
The Spartans battled back in the second
stanza, coming back to tie the game at 50 with 9:05 remaining.
But FIU found an answer again, pushing the lead to 10, 64-54,
on a three-point play by Cormisha Cotton with 3:41 left. The Spartans’
Jennifer Hart then reeled off five straight points to cut the
lead to five before Cinite stepped up.
Silvia Mesa and Cormisha Cotton also
finished in double figures for the Golden Panthers with 14 and
13 points, respectively. UNCG’s Jacinda Lambert led all
scorers with 20 points while Hart ended the game with 13 points.
FIU is off until Dec. 28-29 when it
hosts the Fun & Sun Classic, featuring FIU, Georgia State,
Mississippi and Texas A & M-Corpus Christi.
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