Chloe Smith

Northern Kentucky NKU 0-1

Eastern Kentucky EKU 1-0

Northern Kentucky NKU

0-1

Final

Nov. 06, 2019

Eastern Kentucky EKU

1-0

Score By Periods
Team	1	2	3	4	F
Northern Kentucky NKU	12	24	16	10	62
Eastern Kentucky EKU	21	16	13	19	69

Game Recap: Women's Basketball | 11/6/2019 10:03:00 PM

Garcia, Turner impress in NKU debuts

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RICHMOND, Ky. – The Northern Kentucky women's basketball team dropped its season opener on the road at Eastern Kentucky, 69-62.

STAT LEADERS

Freshman guard Carissa Garcia led the Norse in scoring with 18 points to go with four rebounds and two steals.
Fellow rookie Ivy Turner also hit double figures with 16 points and posted a balanced stat line with six assists, five rebounds and four steals.
Emmy Souder was just off double-digit scoring with nine points, and Molly Glick added eight.
Kailey Coffey led the Norse on the boards with 10 rebounds, while Grayson Rose added seven.

TURNING POINT

The Norse battled to overcome a first-quarter deficit and led by two points at the end of the third quarter. However, EKU hit back-to-back threes to open up the fourth and held NKU to 11.1 percent shooting from the field to outscore the Norse in the final stanza, 19-10.

FIRST HALF SUMMARY

Garcia and Turner immediately made an impact in the early minutes of the contest, but Eastern Kentucky closed out the first quarter on a 10-2 run to hold a 21-12 lead.
The Norse answered back in the second quarter, shooting 66.7 percent from the field and outscoring the Colonels, 24-16. Glick hit a buzzer-beating 3-pointer to bring the Norse within a point, 37-36.
Turner had hit double figures by the midway mark, leading the Norse with 11 points while Garcia had nine.

SECOND HALF SUMMARY

Garcia opened up the second half with back-to-back makes as the Norse pulled ahead, 40-37. NKU built upon that momentum and outscored Eastern Kentucky by a 16-13 margin to lead by a 52-50 edge going into the final quarter.
EKU quickly took the lead back with back-to-back triples, and the two teams went back and forth until the 59-57 mark, when the Norse held their final lead of the game. The Colonels went back out by a point with another 3-pointer before the Norse tied it up at 62-62.
The Colonels closed the game on seven-point run in the final 2:35 of play.

GAME NOTES

NKU shot 20-for-62 (32.3 percent) from the field, while EKU went 24-for-53 (45.3 percent).
Eastern Kentucky had a successful night from beyond the arc, going 11-for-25 (44.0 percent).
Northern Kentucky won the rebounding battle, 41-34. The Norse held the Colonels to just five offensive rebounds. NKU had 18 offensive boards, converting those into 14 second-chance points.
NKU forced Eastern Kentucky into 21 turnovers, 11 of which came by way of steals, and turned those into 18 points off turnovers.
The Norse also had the advantage in the paint, 26-22.

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