Florida Atlantic University Athletics
Florida Atlantic
East Tennessee State
Williams Leads Owls Past Bucs, 85-76
2/4/2006 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
Feb. 4, 2006
BOCA RATON, FL-- Shontavia Williams was honored before the game for her 500th career rebound and fittingly matched her career-high with 14 boards as Florida Atlantic University beat ETSU 85-76 on Saturday afternoon at FAU Arena.
"Tay (Shontavia Williams) was just simply amazing tonight," head coach Chancellor Dugan said. "She has been carrying us all season long and I am so proud of the way she played today."
The Owls held a 15-to-5 lead at the 12:32 mark and continued the offensive outburst to build a 50-to-28 advantage at the break. With the score 25-to-22, the Owls went on a 25-to-6 run over the final 5:21 of the first frame to post their largest halftime point total of the season.
Williams scored 13, of her game-high 21 points in the first half and Missy Glaser went 4-of-5 from the floor to add 12 of her 17 points in the opening stanza.
Coming off a career performance against Kennesaw State, Amanda Bulin picked up right where she left off adding nine first half points.
ETSU cut the lead to nine, 58-49, at the 13:09 mark of the second half as Kelly Turman converted one of her five field goals on the afternoon.
The Bucs got it down to seven, 78-71 with 2:14 to play, but never got any closer as FAU has now won five straight games to improve to 10-2 in the conference.
The Owls dominated the rebounding battle 42-to-30 and converted 12 second chance points in the game. Freshman Brittney Crenshaw scored a career-high 13 points to go along with six rebounds for FAU.
Candace Gibson and B.J. Banjo scored 16 points each for the Bucs, who now dropped two straight games and three out of their last four decisions.
Florida Atlantic will return to the hardwood on Wednesday Feb. 8th in DeLand, FL against the Stetson Hatters. Comcast Cable subscribers can see the game live on CSS. Tip-off is slated for 7:00 p.m.
