Box Score / Katrich Williams scored her 1,000th career point as the Alabama A&M women’s basketball team rolled past Mississippi Valley State, 75-64, at Elmore Gym on Monday. Williams used an 11-of-13 mark at the charity stripe to record a game-high 27 points in 34 minutes of action. Whiquitta Tobar scored a career-high 21 points on 4-of-6 shooting from the field. Nadra Robertson also had a career-high night – just a basket shy of her first career double-double – with eight points, 10 boards, and five blocks in 21 minutes of action. The victory also marks head coach Altherias Warmley’s 100th career win.The Bulldogs are back in action on Sat. Jan. 16 when it travels to Motgomery, Ala. to face in-state SWAC rival Alabama State. The game is slated to start at 3 p.m.
A&M got off to a slow start, as the Devilettes opened up the game on a 17-6 run to take a double-digit advantage at the 13:35 mark. Sparked by a Williams layup – her 1,000th career point – the Bulldogs went on a 9-0 run in the preceding two-plus minutes to cut it to 17-15. A Tobar basket at 7:57 gave A&M its first advantage of the game that it sustained heading into the half, 34-28.
Tobar had nine points in the first 20 minutes, while Williams scored eight. The Bulldogs forced 14 first half MVSU miscues. A&M shot just over 44 percent for the half (15-for-24), while holding the Devilettes to 37.5 percent shooting (12-for-32).
The Bulldogs opened up the second stint with an 8-4 run to achieve its widest margin of the game at 11 (46-35) with just under 15 minutes left to play. Capped by Brittney Carter layup, A&M ripped off a 12-4 run the push the spread to 60-41 at the 7:42 mark. MVSU used 10 unanswered points to slice into the deficit and bring itself to within nine, 60-51, with about six minutes remaining in regulation. The Devilettes got no closer than eight points, 64-56, at the 2:19 mark, as the Bulldogs closed the game with an 11-6 run to take the 75-64 victory.
Lenise Stallings had 25 points off the bench for the Devilettes in 27 minutes of play. Ashley Brown tallied 11 points and pulled down five off the glass. Arliva Young chipped in with eight points and four rebounds.
The Bulldogs improve to 7-6 on the season and 3-1 in the SWAC while Mississippi Valley falls to 4-10 on the season and 1-2 in the league. A&M will play Alabama State on Sat. Jan. 16 beginning at 3 p.m.
