Thursday's Women's Basketball Roundup

Wofford 70, Western Carolina 68
Despite Western Carolina's second-half comeback push, the Wofford women's basketball team held firm late and trusted the veteran Helen Matthews, who put home a layup with one second left to seal the 70-68 victory Thursday night. The road win in the Ramsey Center lifts the Terriers to 15-7 (7-2 SoCon) as the Catamounts fall to 11-14 (1-9 SoCon). Molly Masingale led the scoring efforts with 18 points, burying four of her seven three-point shots. Masingale added three rebounds. 

UNCG 55, Furman 51
The UNC Greensboro (UNCG) women's basketball team secured a 55-51 victory over the Furman Paladins on Thursday night in Fleming Gymnasium in The Southern Conference (SoCon) action. With today's win, UNCG improves to 12-0 at home and 9-1 in the SoCon. The 12-0 home record is the best home start in any regular season in UNCG women's basketball program history. Three Spartans reached double-figures in the contest. Nya Smith led the Spartans with 12 points. Jaila Lee and Jayde Gamble followed closely behind with 11 and 10 points, respectively.

Makiah Asidanya converted three free throws over the final 19 seconds of play to help UNCG hold off Furman, 55-51, in Southern Conference women's basketball action on Thursday evening in Fleming Gymnasium. The win was the seventh straight for UNCG (18-6, 9-1 SoCon), which led 52-45 with three minutes to go before Furman (13-12, 3-6 SoCon) got three consecutive baskets from freshman guard Chantelle Stuart — the final one with 1:19 to go — to pull the Paladins to within 52-51.

Chattanooga 69, Mercer 39
Chattanooga women's basketball absolutely steamrolled its way to a win on Thursday night in Macon, Georgia, as the Mocs picked apart Mercer enroute to a 69-39 blowout victory over the Bears. From the word go, the Mocs (12-11, 7-3 SoCon) had their foot on the gas and didn't let off as UTC picked up its second-straight wire-to-wire win and fourth wire-to-wire win of the season over the Bears (7-16, 2-6 SoCon) to maintain Chattanooga's spot in third in the conference.

Samford 50, ETSU 43
The Samford women's basketball team earned a hard-fought, 50-43 Southern Conference victory over ETSU Thursday evening at the Pete Hanna Center. With the win, Samford improved its season record to 9-16 overall and 4-5 in the Southern Conference. ETSU fell to 14-11 overall and 5-5 in SoCon play. Kennedy Langham posted her first career double-double with 18 points and a career-high 10 rebounds. Emily Bowman narrowly missed a double-double with 12 points and eight rebounds, to go along with her three blocked shots. Claire Johnson added eight points and four assists. Defensively, Samford held ETSU to a season-low 27 percent shooting from the floor.