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01.01.1970 | Women's Basketball
Feb. 8, 2006
LYNCHBURG, Va. - Allyson Fasnacht scored a career-high 19 points to lead Liberty to a 66-50 victory over UNC Asheville in Big South women's basketball Tuesday night.
After shooting 46 percent in the first half, UNC Asheville (12-8, 3-4 Big South) went just 5-of-20 (25 percent) from the floor in the second half. Liberty (15-5, 6-1 Big South) shot 49 percent from the floor, 67 percent from three-point range, and 75 percent from the free-throw line for its 22nd-consecutive victory over the Bulldogs.
Ashton Barton led Asheville with 13 points while Stacy Shepard added 11 points but for the second-straight game poor free throw shooting did in the Bulldogs. Asheville went 11-of-22 from the charity stripe in the game. In there last two losses, the Bulldogs are 16-of-36 (44 percent) from the free throw line.
Fasnacht led all scores in the game going 5-of-7 from the floor, 3-of-3 from three-point range, and 6-of-6 from the foul line. She was the only Liberty player in double figures but the Lady Flames had points from eight different players.
Asheville started the game well and led for the first 15 minutes building its largest lead of five, 21-16, at the 8:12 mark of the first half. The Bulldogs led 25-21 at the 5:10 mark before the Lady Flames closed out the first half on a 12-4 run to go into halftime with a 33-29 lead.
The Bulldogs got the first points of the second half on a layup by Shepard to pull within two points but that would be as close as they would get. Liberty went on an 8-0 run over the next four minutes to get the lead to double figures at 41-31 with 15:50 to play. Brittany Hendley knocked down one of her three three-point shots to put Asheville to within seven but Liberty held the Dogs without a field goal for the next five minutes to build the lead back to 13 points at 48-35 with 11:14 to play.
The lead remained between 10 and 15 points the rest of the game as Liberty went 12-of-15 (80 percent) from the free throw line in the second half. The Lady Flames out-rebounded the Bulldogs 36-27 and the Liberty bench outscored the Asheville bench 17-6.
The Bulldogs will travel to Big South leader High Point on Saturday for a 4 p.m. game against the Panthers who defeated the Bulldogs 73-70 on Jan. 14.
