MONTGOMERY, Ala. | The University of Alabama in Huntsville women's basketball team made it back-to-back wins and earned another important conference victory on Monday evening, defeating Auburn Montgomery 73-62 on the road. The Chargers improve to 5-15 (4-11 Gulf South Conference) while the Warhawks fall to 6-15 (1-14 GSC).
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Holly Harris scored a season-high 20 points in the contest to lead the Chargers and become the 10
th player in UAH women's basketball history to score 1,000 career points or more.
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Head coach
Andrea Lemmond has coached four of the ten players that have eclipsed the 1,000 career points milestone for the Blue & White.
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Harris went 7-for-11 from the field on the night including four three-pointers, another season-high for the Franklin, Tennessee native. She currently ranks fourth all-time in UAH women's basketball history with 172 career 3-pointers made.
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Selena Pruitt and
Miajah Bullock also turned in noteworthy performances for the Chargers as Pruitt scored 15, going 5-for-8 from the field including 3-for-5 from three-point range, and she also recorded three steals while Bullock put up 13 points for her 10
th double-digit game this season.
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Alexis Woods paced all players on both teams with nine rebounds in the contest. Her 8.2 rebounds per game average is seventh best in the GSC.Â
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After a back-and-forth opening, AUM would go up by as many as six with 1:15 left in the first quarter, holding a 19-13 edge before a UAH three-pointer would see the opening stanza close with the Warhawks in front 19-16. The Chargers opened the second half with a 9-0 run to regain the lead which they would never surrender for the rest of the affair, going into the halftime break up 43-32.Â
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Harris would hit her milestone after making her fourth three-pointer of the night when the fourth quarter clock showed 6:33 left to play in the contest, putting the UAH advantage to 11 at 58-47. The Chargers would not lead by less than 10 for the remainder of the final stanza on their way to securing the 73-62 victory.
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The Blue & White finished the contest shooting 52.8 percent while holding the guests to a 43.9 percent shooting mark and UAH built up a 37-26 edge in rebounds.
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The Chargers also made 10 team 3-pointers on the night which is a season-high for the squad.
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UAH will now have one day of rest before traveling to Livingston, Ala. to take on West Alabama on Wednesday evening. Wednesday's contest in Livingston is set to tip-off at 5:30 p.m.
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