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Cowgirls Pick Up Road Win At Indiana
December 04, 2011 | Cowgirl Basketball
Dec. 4, 2011
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - Oklahoma State's women's basketball team earned its first road victory of the year on Sunday afternoon, knocking off Indiana, 83-72, in front of 1,615 fans inside Assembly Hall.
Midway through the first half, the Hoosiers (2-5) used a 12-0 run to erase a four-point deficit and take a 23-15 lead. However, the Cowgirls (4-0) answered with an 8-0 run while holding Indiana scoreless over the final 2:31 of the period to take a 36-31 lead into the intermission.
The Cowgirls opened with the first 10 points of the second half to push the lead to 15 and extend the Hoosiers' scoreless drought to more than six and a half minutes. OSU used another 8-0 spurt to cap a 26-2 run and push the margin to 54-33 with 14:08 remaining. Indiana answered with a 12-3 spurt to get back in the contest.
With the lead cut to 12, a pair of freshmen came up big for the Cowgirls with back-to-back 3-pointers. Liz Donohoe and Taylor Schippers both connected from beyond the arc to build the margin back to 18 at 63-45.
The Hoosiers threatened one last time, cutting the OSU advantage to 13 with seven minutes remaining before Donohoe struck again with 3-pointers on consecutive trips down the floor.
The Edmond, Okla., native finished with a game-high 23 points behind an 8-of-10 shooting performance.
As a team, OSU shot 49 percent overall from the floor after hitting at a 57-percent clip in the second half.
Donohoe hit four of OSU's eight 3-pointers in the contest and was one of four Cowgirls to score in double figures.
Junior Toni Young scored 15 points off the bench, while sophomore Kendra Suttles added 12 points and Schippers chipped in with 10 points.
Sophomore Tiffany Bias had 12 assists, eight of which came after the break.
Indiana's Aulani Sinclair scored 23 points to lead a trio of Hoosiers in double figures.
OSU will return to action on Dec. 8 when it hosts Missouri State at 7 p.m.
