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Team drops first half lead to New Mexico State, can’t make up the difference
The University of Idaho women’s basketball team played a game that kept fans on the edge of their seats, but came up just short of a win losing 54-51 to the New Mexico State Aggies on Thursday.
Idaho coach Mike Divilbiss started four freshmen and one sophomore for the second straight game in a rebuilding year for the Vandals.
The Vandals took the lead late in the first half and ended ahead at the half 25-20 with a 37 percent shooting average. The women have only led at the half in three other games this season.
The last time the Vandals faced the Aggies on Jan. 3, the women had an excessive amount of fouls and turnovers. This wasn’t the case on Thursday as the Vandals came out of the half with only seven turnovers and seven fouls, but the women could not pull out a win.
The loss brings the Vandals to 2 and 19 on the season and 1 and 7 in the Western Athletic Conference.
New Mexico State is now 17 and 5 overall and 7 and 2 in the WAC.
The Vandal women had four players score in the double-digits on Thursday, led by Sara Dennehy with 12 points and two rebounds.
Freshman Yinka Olorunnife was the second-leading scorer with 11 points and nine rebounds. Sophomore Katie Madison scored 11 points and had five rebounds, and freshman Alana Curtis scored 10 points and grabbed three rebounds.
Sherell Neal was New Mexico State’s leading scorer with 21 points and six rebounds. Neal was followed by Anikia Jawara who scored 14 points and had four assists.
Louisiana Tech is next on the list for the Vandal women at 7 p.m. Saturday in the Cowan Spectrum.
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