Women's Basketball Earns First Win Of Season Over Rhoades

Thursday, November 8

Birmingham, Ala.

6:00 PM (CT)

Samford University

0-1

Rhodes College

0-0

Team	1	2	3	4	F
Rhodes	15	7	20	12	54
Samford	18	14	20	19	71

Box Score (PDF)

Paige Serup scored a career-high 19 points Thursday night vs. Rhoades.

Women's Basketball Earns First Win Of Season Over Rhoades

11.8.18 | Women's Basketball

Box Score

BOX SCORE (PDF)

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – The Samford women's basketball team picked up its first win of the season in a 71-54 victory over Rhodes College Thursday night in the Pete Hanna Center. With the win, Samford improves to 1-1, while Rhodes falls to 0-1.

FROM THE BOX SCORE

Samford junior guard Paige Serup scored a career-high 19 points in leading the Bulldogs to the win. She made 6-of-9 shots from the floor, including 5-of-8 from three-point range.
This marks the second-straight game Serup as scored a career-high total of points.
Natalie Armstrong scored 10 points for the Bulldogs.
Charity Brown scored nine points, and she had six rebounds and five assists.
Olivia Crozier added eight points for Samford.

GAME HIGHLIGHTS

Samford jumped out to an early 15-4 lead, but Rhodes went on a 6-0 run to cut the lead to 15-10 with 4:14 left in the first quarter.
After a three-point play by Cassidy Williams pushed the lead to 18-10, Rhodes scored the final five points of the quarter to cut the lead to 18-15 at the end of the first period.
Samford pushed its lead to 21-15 early in the second quarter on a three-pointer by Serup, but Rhodes fought back to cut the lead to one at 21-20.
Samford closed the half with an 11-2 run to take a 32-22 lead into the locker room at halftime.
Samford pushed its lead out to 15 points at 37-22 with 8:19 left in the quarter.
With Samford leading, 44-29, Rhodes went on a 9-2 run to cut the lead to 46-38 with 3:15 left in the third quarter.
Samford ended the third quarter with a 52-42 advantage.
Samford scored the first nine points of the fourth quarter to push its lead to 61-42.
Rhodes fought back to cut the lead to 13 at 67-54, but Samford pulled away for the 71-54 victory.