Hickory, N.C. - The Lenoir-Rhyne Women's Basketball Team fell to Carson-Newman 81-70 Saturday afternoon inside the Shu. Emily Harman was one rebound shy of a double-double as the sophomore scored 25 points on 11-18 shooting in the contest while adding nine rebounds.

GAME INFORMATION:

Final: Carson-Newman 81, Lenoir-Rhyne 70
Records: Carson-Newman (13-3, 11-2 SAC) I Lenoir-Rhyne (4-8, 3-7 SAC) 
Location: Hickory, N.C. | Shuford Gymnasium

STATS AND INFO:

• Carson-Newman moves to 2-1 inside the Shu this year. The Eagles lost to No. 3 Lander but beat USC-Aiken earlier this year in the Peach Belt/SAC Challenge in Hickory. 
• The Eagles have now won seven straight games against the Bears. 
• The Bears have finished their season series with the Eagles but the Bears still have yet to face three SAC Conference teams (Lincoln Memorial, Queens, Mars Hill)
• The Bears have played a tough stretch of conference games to start. So far the winning percentage of the teams the Bears have played entering today inside the conference is .618%. The schedule will soften for the Bears moving forward, the teams left on the schedule have a .467 winning percentage. 
• Tatum McBride got her first start of the season and her sixth career for the Bears. 

FIRST HALF:

• First quarter saw both teams shot at least 50% from the floor. Eagles went 10-20 in the quarter while the Bears shot 9-16 from the floor. LR did not attempt a three pointer in the quarter while the Eagles went 2-7 (28.6%) from deep. 
• Harman (12) and Brandi Hudson (6) were the Bears' only scorers in the quarter. 
• Harman stuffed the box score in the first half with 18 points, five rebounds, four assists and three steals while playing all twenty minutes.
• The Bears did cool off in the second quarter, shooting 37.5%, while the Eagles shot 60%, which helped them race out to a thirteen point lead at the half. 

SECOND HALF:

• An early third quarter 9-0 run for the Bears cut the Eagles' lead to 51-47 with 4:44 left, but a C-N 13-5 run to close the quarter gave the Eagles a 12-point lead heading into the fourth, where the Bears could not get any closer.
• Carson-Newman made 8-10 free throws in the second half to limit the Bears comeback attempts.
• Tilda Lindstrom had all ten of her points in the second half. 

ABOUT THE BEARS:

• Harman flirted with a triple double finishing with 25 points, nine rebounds, seven assists while playing all forty minutes for the second straight game.
• Hudson finished with 17 points, including 11 in the second half. Hudson was limited to six minutes in the first half with foul trouble.
• Megan Landsiedel added five rebounds and five assists on the afternoon.
• Bears had 23 turnovers in the game, and the Eagles scored 22 points off those turnovers. 

NOTABLE EAGLES:

• Last years SAC Conference Player of the Year Braelyn Wykle scored a game-high 28 points.
• Addison Byrd (15) and Skylar Boshears (10) were also in the double figures for Carson-Newman.
• Eagles had fourteen steals on the afternoon led by five from Abby Wilson and four from Campbell Penland. 

UP NEXT: LR will travel to Wingate for a 5:30 tip-off on Wednesday.