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LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, PA – Senior Jade Young (Philadelphia, Pa./Abington Friends School) recorded her second career double-double as the Lincoln women's basketball team reclaimed sole possession of the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association's North Division with a 67-45 win over Virginia State Saturday in the VSU Multipurpose Center, Etterick, Va.
Young tallied a career-high 13 points with 10 rebounds for her first points/rebounds double-double of the year. She was 5-of-9 from the floor with two assists and a pair of steals.
It marked the fourth time in the last six games Lincoln has held an opponent to 45 points or less, all of them resulting in wins.
Lincoln took over the game late in the first quarter with a 17-4 run that extended into the second quarter. The Lions' defensive pressure limited Virginia State to just one basket and a total of six points in the second quarter. The Trojans were just 1-of-13 in the quarter, missing 13 consecutive after opening the stanza with a three-pointer. Additionally, Lincoln forced five turnovers of VSU's 13 turnovers during the game-changing 10-minute span.
Six different players found the scorebook in the second quarter as 10 of the 11 players scored in the victory.
The proverbial nail in the coffin came with an 11-2 spurt in the third quarter that pushed Lincoln's lead to a game-high 28 points. The Lions lead never got under 20 for the rest of the game.
Fifth-year senior Bryanna Brown (New York, N.Y./Bishop Loughlin), the CIAA's leading scorer, came off the bench for just the second time this season and finished with a team-high 17 points, three rebounds, and two assists.
Lincoln (14-5 overall, 7-2 CIAA, 4-1 North) travels to Fayetteville 5:30 p.m. Monday. The game was originally scheduled for January 6.
