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Freshman Hannah Lilly led a balanced scoring attack with 14 points in helping the Emory women's basketball team to a 67-55 win over the University of the South on Tuesday evening.  The win snapped the Eagles' three-game losing streak and evened the squad's mark at 3-3 while the Tigers slipped to 1-4.

Lilly sank six-of-12 field goal attempts, including one-of-two from three-point range, in notching her team-high fourth double-figure scoring effort of the season.  Senior Courtney Von Stein was next on the team's scoring list with nine points and also contributed a career-high five steals.  Sophomores Danielle Landry and Misha Jackson, along with junior Melissa Koike and freshman Taylor Bruzzio and chipped in eight points each, with Landry establishing career bests with a team-high 11 rebounds and six steals. Playing a key role in the win was freshman guard Savannah Morgan with 10 rebounds, seven assists and four steals. Emory's aggressive, ball-hawking defense came up with a season-high tying 21 steals, the team's sixth consecutive effort of 10 or more thefts, and forced the visitors into 37 turnovers.

Emory ended the game shooting 37.8 percent from the floor (28-of-74) compared to Sewanee's 35.6 percent (21-of-59), and also finished with a 44-42 edge in rebounding. 

Sewanee scooted out to a 14-6 lead a little over five minutes into the contest following a three-point field goal by Alex Ginsburg.  The Tigers still enjoyed a five-point edge, 26-21, with 5:49 left in the opening stanza after Logan Miller knocked down a triple, but a 7-0 Emory run, keyed by a bucket by Landry, a trey by Von Stein and a basket by Morgan, enabled Emory to take a two-point lead.  After Sewanee tied things up, Emory scored the half's final five points, three coming from Lilly, to take a 33-28 lead into halftime. 

Sewanee used the three-point shot to its advantage in the second half, totaling seven of its 11 treys over the final 20 minutes of play.  A trey by Dee Bradford, who paced the Tigers in scoring with 12 points, knotted the game at 46-46 with 9:36 left.  It was at that point where Emory took charge, rattling off 10 unanswered points, six by Koike, to claim a 56-46 cushion with 6:10 on the clock.  Sewanee hit another long ball with 3:22 remaining to draw to within six, but a basket by Koike followed by a three pointer by Von Stein upped Emory's lead to 11 points, 63-52, with a little less than two minutes remaining and sealed the outcome.

Emory returns to action on Saturday (Dec. 4) when it plays at Piedmont College.