Women's Basketball Suffers First Conference Loss at UALR

Saturday, January 7

Little Rock, ARK.

5:30 PM

Florida Atlantic

8-7, 3-1SBC

Little Rock

7-9, 2-1SBC

Florida Atlantic

UALR

1/7/2012 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball

Box Score

Jan. 7, 2012

Final Stats

Little Rock, AR - The Florida Atlantic University women's basketball team could not keep an early first-half lead in suffering its first Sun Belt Conference loss with a 60-38 setback at the University of Arkansas-Little Rock at the Jack Stevens Center on Saturday evening.

"We just didn't execute well enough for an entire game to win this road game," said Chancellor Dugan, FAU's head women's basketball coach. "We got off to a strong start, but UALR showed good toughness to battle back. There were lessons learned in this game that will help us for the rest of the season. We'll hit the practice court next week and start working on those things to meet the challenges on the horizon."

The loss ends the Owls' three-game league winning streak and drops the team to 8-7 overall. FAU now stands 3-1 in league play, with three of the four league games being on the road.

"There are plenty of positives for us when you consider where we are at this point in the season," said Dugan, whose team has never defeated UALR in six league encounters.

FAU held an early 14-10 advantage and enjoyed multiple six-point advantages in the early minutes before UALR used a 25-6 run over the final 11:39 of the first half to take a 35-20 halftime lead. Sophomore forward Chenise Miller gave the visitors a 10-4 lead four minutes into the contest on a layup. The Oak Park, Mich. native scored six of her team-high 10 points in the first half. Miller has scored in double-digits in eight of her past 11 games.

The closest the Owls could get in the second half would be 14 points, 44-29, at the 13:37 mark after the first career three-point field goal by senior forward April Goins. She finished the contest with nine points. Senior guard Teri Stamps also added nine points in the setback.

UALR (7-9, 2-1 Sun Belt) was paced by Taylor Gault's 21 points, including 17 points in the first half. Marian Kursh scored 11 points and grabbed 10 rebounds, while Britteni Williams chipped in 10 points and nine rebounds.

FAU its first week off since the holiday break before returning to the court on Saturday, January 14, at 3 p.m. for a home league game against East Division challenger Middle Tennessee State University from the FAU Arena, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton campus. Live audio and statistics of the contest can be found at www.fausports.com.

Season and single-game women's basketball tickets are available through the FAU Ticket Office at 1-866-FAU-OWLS.