The Rust Faculty Girl Bearcats have received the GCAC Event championship for the third yr in a row with a 67-39 victory over Fisk on Sunday. The Girl Bearcats basketball crew held the Bulldogs to simply 24.1% capturing from the ground.
Rust restricted Fisk to scoring in single digits in half of the sport’s quarters and likewise compelled 19 Bulldog turnovers. Throughout the opening quarter, Zipporah Davis hit a three-pointer on the 7:43 mark which gave the Bulldogs a quick 3-2 lead.
Nevertheless, this benefit solely lasted for twenty seconds and could be the one time Fisk would lead in the entire sport.
The Bearcats then scored 19 consecutive factors, taking the lead 21-3 with 1:48 left within the first quarter. Liz Gibbs’ layup gave Fisk their solely different factors within the interval, as they ended up in a 21-5 gap after simply one-quarter of play.
The Bulldogs managed to attain 16 factors within the second quarter, however the Bearcats nonetheless outscored them, taking a 38-21 lead into halftime. The Bearcats’ protection continued to dominate within the third quarter, limiting the Bulldogs to simply seven factors, together with 4 turnovers. The Bearcats have been forward, main 55-28 on the finish of the third quarter.
Kennedi Inexperienced led the Bearcats with 15 factors in simply 17 minutes, whereas Dekeriya Patterson and Niya McGuire added 11 factors every. Then again, no participant from Fisk managed to achieve double figures. Maya Buchanan, an eight-time GCAC Participant of the Week and two-time NAIA Nationwide Participant of the Week, was held to simply 9 factors, and no different Bulldog participant scored greater than 5 factors.
Rust Faculty is the oldest HBCU in Mississippi. The school is a member of the Nationwide Affiliation of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), primarily competing within the Gulf Coast Athletic Convention (GCAC) for the reason that 2018–19 tutorial yr, after spending as an NAIA Unbiased throughout the Affiliation of Unbiased Establishments (AII) throughout the 2017–18 college yr once they joined the NAIA.
The Bearcats beforehand competed within the NCAA Division III ranks as an NCAA D-III Unbiased till after the 2016–17 college yr; and within the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Convention (SIAC) from 1978–79 to 1987–88, which is at present an NCAA Division II athletic convention.
Rust will work out their subsequent opponent on Thursday when the NAIA Event Choice Present airs. Within the earlier two tournaments, the Girl Bearcats haven’t superior previous the Regional Spherical. Fisk can even be taught their destiny on Thursday night.
