The Emporia State Lady Hornets rolled over Lindenwood Monday night with an 87-58 victory. Kelly Moten, junior guard, and Sandra Ngoie, senior forward, combined for 19-26 from the floor with 52 points.
“Big time games by both of them, they were pretty efficient, 8-9 from three,” said Jory Collins, head coach. “They are just playmakers.”
With 4:44 left in the first quarter, the score was tied at nine. Moten led the Lady Hornets with five points. At 2:06 left in the first quarter, the Lions called a timeout after the Lady Hornets went on a 12-3 run. The quarter ended with ESU leading 23-15. Lindenwood shot just 31 percent for the quarter while ESU shot 60 percent.
At the 4:34 mark in the second quarter, ESU led 29-22. The Lady Hornets held the Lady Lions to just 33 percent shooting. The Lady Hornets had 10 defensive rebounds. Ngoie led the Lady Hornets in rebounds to that point with five.
At halftime, the Lady Hornets led 35-29. The Lady Hornets shot 13-28 from the floor and just 3-9 from three point range. Though it was a stale half for the Lady Hornets offensively, it was a frigid half the Lions, shooting just 35.2 percent from two and 18.2 percent from three. The Lady Hornets led most of the first half. The only lead the Lions had was a 9-7 lead early in the first quarter. ESU had five players score in the first half. Moten led all scorers with 18, Kathryn Flott, junior forward, had six, Ngoie had four, Addie Lackey, sophomore guard, had three and Kelsey Barnwell, senior guard, had two.
With 5:56 left in the third quarter, ESU forced a Lindenwood timeout after Ngoie made back to back three pointers, pushing the ESU lead to 45-36. With four minutes left in the first, half Lindenwood cut the Lady Hornet lead to just three, a 45-42 lead with a man to man defense. At the end of three quarters, ESU built their lead to 12 with eight of their last 12 points coming from the free throw line.
The Lady Hornets started the fourth quarter on a 9-0 run with three three pointers from Ngoie pushing their lead to 66-45.
With 4:54 left in the game, ESU had a 74-54 lead. The lead due, in part, to a nearly perfect 15-16 shooting night from the free throw line.
“It’s just my teammates finding me in the right spot and I was just so open,” Ngoie said.
The lady Hornets scored 52 points in the second half and had 30 fourth quarter points. They held Lindenwood to just 29 points in the whole second half.
“I think it all started on the defensive end,” Moten said. “We held them to bad shots and rebounded well.”
The Lady Hornets will continue their season this Thursday as they travel to Edmond, Oklahoma to take on Central Oklahoma.
