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Spartanburg, S.C. – Kennesaw State senior forward
Sametria Gideon put in her 1,000
th career point with a nine-point outing on Saturday afternoon, becoming the first Owl to reach that plateau since the black and gold joined the Division I ranks, as the Owls took a 66-49 loss at Wofford.
“I’m just so excited for her,” said Kennesaw State head coach
Nitra Perry. “Nobody deserves it more than she does and I just can’t say enough about what she does for our team and what she brings to this program.”
Gideon’s (Madison, Ala/Bob Jones HS) nine points give her 1,002 total for her illustrious career with the landmark shot coming on a free throw with 1:47 to go in the contest after coming into the game with 993.
As a team, Kennesaw State, now 1-5, was led by
Kristina Wells (Douglasville, Ga./Douglas County HS) and her 13 points with
Chantel Kennedy (Brooklyn, N.Y./Colorado St.) earning double-double status with 10 points and 13 rebounds, going 5-of-10 from the field with nine defensive boards. Gideon was also in double-figures in the rebound category with 10.
“We have to get better at the little things,” said Perry of the loss. “I felt the things they did well, like shoot the three, we did a good job of taking away. But we just didn’t block out and didn’t execute the fundamentals. They just wanted the ball more and that’s something we just have to do better. We have to have pride when we put on a Kennesaw State jersey.”
Wofford, now 3-1, went into the contest averaging five three-pointers per game, but the Owl perimeter defense held the Terriers to just one made triple in 16 attempts, their lowest total of the season.
The only lead for KSU during the game came four minutes after the opening tip with
Shadelly Guzman (Miami, Fla./Monsignor E. Pace HS) draining a three to give the Owls a 10-9 lead, overcoming a 6-0 hole to start off the game for the black and gold. Guzman then tied the game again with a layup two minutes later at 12-12 before a Terrier free throw put Wofford up for the remainder of the contest.
After falling behind by seven late in the first, a 6-0 run by the Owls on back-to-back layups by Kennedy and a Gideon jumper, put the score at 21-20. But a scoring run by the Terriers in the final four minutes of the half put the score at 36-26 Wofford heading into the break.
A shooting drought from the field for the black and gold put KSU behind early on in the second, 44-26, before Kennedy put the Owls on the board in the second half with a jumper at the 15:42 mark.
Bria Young (Suwanee, Ga./Collins Hill HS) brought the Owls within 15 on a layup, but the Owls couldn’t overcome timely Wofford shooting as the Terriers took the 66-49 win.
The Owls did score 28 points in the paint and forced 18 Wofford turnovers on seven KSU steals, three of those by the freshman point guard Guzman. The Owls turned their seven steals into 14 points on the other end.
The Owls will face two more road games in the next seven days, taking on Jacksonville State on Nov. 29, before a Dec. 2, showdown with cross-town rival Georgia State.
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Kennesaw State University is celebrating 30 years of intercollegiate athletics during the 2012-13 academic year.
