Junior Khadijah Sayyid scored a team-high 18 points but it wasn't enough as the Emory women's basketball team came out on the short end of a road contest at Maryville College.  The Scots raised their overall record to 3-1 following an 80-61 decision over the Eagles who slipped to 3-2.

Maryville finished the contest shooting 47.5 percent (28-of-59) from the floor and was extremely sharp from three-point range, sinking 57.9 percent (11-of-19) of its opportunities.  Emory connected on 40 percent (24-of-60) from the field.  The Scots were paced in scoring by Lauren Trent who totaled a game-high 21 points, sinking seven three pointers in eight attempts.  Maryville held a 42-35 edge in rebounding with Sayyid leading Emory in that category with eight boards.

Emory trailed by a six point margin in the early stages of the second half before MC went on a 12-0 burst, featuring a pair of treys in that run, that put the home club up by a 51-33 count with 14:52 left in the game.   Emory responded by scoring 10 of the contest's next 12 points, sparked by freshman Dumebi Egbuna who scored six of her 11 points in that stretch, to draw to within 10 points with 10:30 on the clock.  A three-point play by Sayyid kept Emory within striking distance, down nine points, but eight consecutive points by the Scots pushed their lead to 65-48 with 7:12 remaining.  From that point, the closest the Eagles would get would be 15 points. 

Maryville used the long ball in staking itself to a 36-29 lead at halftime, sinking eight three pointers in 14 attempts, and shooting 42.4 percent overall in the stanza (14-of-33) while Emory converted 13 of its 30 opportunities from the floor.  The Scots bolted out to a 21-6 lead with 11:26 left in the stanza following a trey by Jordan Ballard, but the Eagles stormed back with a 15-0 blitz with junior Ilene Tsao scoring five points to lead the charge, knotting the score at 21-21 with 5:38 left.  Deadlocked at 23-23, the Scots rattled off an 8-0 run, keyed by two three pointers by Trent, who finished the half with 15 points, to take a 31-23 advantage.   A bucket by freshman Kennede Miller drew Emory to within four points before another Trent three-pointer with five ticks on the clock closed out the scoring for the half.  Tsao scored eight points to lead the Eagles' opening stanza scoring attack while sophomore Michelle Bevan, seeing her first action of the season, added six points.

Emory returns to action on Tuesday (Dec. 2) when it hosts the University of the South in a 6:00 pm tip.