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Kayla Herrera
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53
Fort Lewis FLC 4-4 (1-2 RMAC)
70
Winner CSU-Pueblo CUWB 5-4 (3-0 RMAC)
Fort Lewis FLC
4-4 (1-2 RMAC)
53
Final
70
CSU-Pueblo CUWB
5-4 (3-0 RMAC)
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 F
Fort Lewis FLC 15 11 17 10 53
CSU-Pueblo CUWB 20 13 22 15 70

Game Recap: Women's Basketball | | Brian Kortz

Herrera and Candelaria Combine for 26 Points at CSU-Pueblo

PUEBLO, Colo. – Kayla Herrera and Sydney Candelaria combined to go 11-23 from the field and tallied 26 points to lead the Fort Lewis College women's basketball team Saturday night. CSU-Pueblo was able to break open a close game in the third quarter to take the 70-53 Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference victory.

FLC (4-4, 1-2 RMAC) had fought back to within two points in the third quarter when CSU-Pueblo (5-4, 3-0 RMAC) used a 16-6 run over the final six-plus minutes of the quarter to regain a 12-point lead on their way to taking the victory.

Herrera paced the Skyhawks going 5-10 from the field, 2-4 from three and 2-3 at the foul line for 14 points. She also had two rebounds, an assist, two blocks and three steals. Candelaria added a 6-13 effort from the field for her 12 points, while grabbing two rebounds, dishing out four assists and coming away with three steals. Jordan Carter tallied nine points and seven rebounds, while Alyssa Yocky just missed a double-double with eight points and 10 rebounds. FLC went 23-61 (38) from the field, 3-15 (20) from three and 4-11 (36) from the foul line.

The ThunderWolves opened the game on a 6-0 run before Herrera put the first points on the board for FLC at the 8:18 mark with a layup. Candelaria and Carter countered a basket by CSU-Pueblo with a pair of layups to draw to within two at 8-6.

Despite pulling to within two, FLC would trail by at least three the rest of the quarter, with Herrera pulling them back to within three at 16-13 and then on a layup by Abigail Jensen at 18-15 as Sydni Williams closed the scoring with a last-second layup to push the ThunderWolves to a 20-15 lead through the first 10 minutes.

Trailing by 11 late in the first half, FLC made a 4-0 push before halftime when Yocky hit a layup and then on a steal by Herrera, Aubre Fortner later found Yocky for another layup to leave CSU-Pueblo with the 33-26 lead at halftime.

FLC kept pushing out of the break, with a layup by Candelaria and then a free throw from Carter had the deficit down to four. Yocky then collected an offensive rebound and found Carter to bring the deficit down to two at 39-37 just over three minutes into the third quarter.

Following a run by CSU-Pueblo, the Skyhawks came back to within five on a jumper by Alyssa Adams and then back to within six on a jumper by Candelaria, but the ThunderWolves closed the quarter on a 8-2 run to open up a 55-43 advantage.

CSU-Pueblo kept the run going into the fourth quarter scoring the first seven points. A Valencia three and a jumper by Fortner got FLC to within 14, but that would be as close as they could get the rest of the way.

The Skyhawks held the edge on points off turnovers (13-11), were even in bench points (8-8), points in the paint (30-30) and fastbreak points (6-6). The ThunderWolves were plus-14 (47-33) on the boards.

Khiya Adams scored a game-high 22 points to lead CSU-Pueblo, while Jennah Knafelc added 18 points. The ThunderWolves went 27-62 (44) from the field, 3-9 (33) from three and 13-21 (62) at the foul line.

FLC will now return home to face South Dakota Mines on Saturday starting at 5:30 p.m. and then against Black Hills State on Sunday beginning at 3:30 p.m. The games were moved from Friday and Saturday to Saturday and Sunday to accommodate the fall commencement in Whalen Gym Saturday.
 
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