Jaguar Women’s Basketball wins a hard fought battle with their rival Troy. The Jags were down one, the score 59-58 with 3 seconds left. Troy and the Jaguars would both take timeouts. South Alabama would have the ball as play resumed. Freshman sensation Kelsey Thompson would get the ball, and hit a jumper from outside the paint as time expired. Giving the Jags the victory as time expired over the Troy.
South Alabama get the scoring started early, on a three pointer by Casey Ferguson, ten seconds into the game. The Jags and Troy would go back and forth during the most of the first quarter. The Jaguars would eventually start to pull away at the end of quarter, going up by nine, scoring on Ferguson’s second chance jump shot in the paint with 5 seconds left. That would cap off an amazing run in the first quarter by Ferguson, scoring 14 points and 3 rebounds. The Jags led 25-16.
The momentum would be short lived as the second quarter moved along the Jaguars would become ice cold. South didn’t make their first goal until nearly halfway into the quarter. Kelsey Thompson would hit a pull up jumper at the 5:26 mark. Then, Thompson would hit a three pointer at the 4:52 mark to push the Jags lead to ten at 30-20. Unfortunately those 5 points are all the Jags would get for the entire quarter. Troy was able to trim the lead down to two, the Jaguars led 30-28 at the half.
Troy was able to outscore the Jaguars 19-14 to take a lead of 47-44 at the end of the third quarter.
The 4th quarter was more back and forth. Troy’s lead would get to seven points at 51-44, at the 8:43 mark. The Jaguars would go on a 7-0 run to tie the game at 51 apiece with 5:34 left in the game. Troy’s lead would get back up to 4 points, with 1:33 left before the Jaguars would cut the deficit to one with ten seconds left. That would lead to the exciting finish by Thompson.
The Jags were led by…
Kelsey Thompson- 22 points and 8 rebounds, recording her 13th double-figure game game this season and her 5th game with over 20 points on the season.
Casey Ferguson- 16 points and 7 rebounds. Casey had 14 of those poirter and made 4 three pointers throughout the game which were season highs.
Kiana Anderson – 6 points and 9 rebounds The 9 rebounds led the team for the 12th time this season.
With the win the Jaguars improved their record to 7-22 overall and 3-15 in the Sun Belt Conference. The win would also get the Jags out of last place in the standings, and up to the 13th seed for the Sun Belt tournament. The Jaguars will still have to win 5 straight games to move on, which, they have not been able to do all season. Anything can happen though, during tournament time.
Next up
The 13 seed Jaguars will play 12 seed Georgia State in the opening game of the first round of the Sun Belt Conference Tournament. Game time 11:30 on February 28th.
South lost to Georgia State in overtime of their last matchup. The winner of this game will face Old Dominion.
