Box Score Junior Sarah Arington came off the bench and recorded a career-high 12 points Monday evening in helping the Emory women's basketball team to a victory over Agnes Scott College. The Eagles recorded their second straight win and raised their overall record to 5-2 following a 79-40 decision over the Scotties who slipped to 2-5.
Arington was the lone Emory player to post double-figure scoring, sinking six-of-nine field goal attempts en route to her first career outing of 10 or more points. The Eagles spread out their offensive attack with all 12 players who suited up finding their way into the scoring column. Sophomore Fran Sweeney and freshman Mikailia Schmitt each contributed nine points to the cause, with Sweeney knocking down three three-point field goals and Schmitt tying sophomore Michelle Bevan for team honors with nine rebounds. Junior Ilene Tsao, sophomore Patricia Mook and freshman Dumebi Egbuna all finished with eight points. Junior Khadijah Sayyid doled out a career-high 10 assists which tied the 10th-highest individual game total in program history.
Emory concluded the contest hitting 47.2 percent (34-of-72) of its field goal attempts and held the undermanned Scotties, who dressed only six players, to 23.2 percent (13-of-56). The Eagles sank seven-of-21 from beyond the arc compared to ASC's 16.7 percent (3-of-18) and outboarded the Scotties by a 56-30 margin.
Emory built an early 25-8 lead 10 minutes into the game before an 8-0 spurt by Agnes Scott cut the Eagles' advantage to 25-16 with 8:20 left in the opening stanza. Emory responded, and in the process blew the game wide open, using an 18-1 blitz over an eight minute stretch, that saw Arington score eight straight Emory points at one point during the run, accounting for all of her first-half scoring, to claim a 43-17 lead with 2:13 on the clock. Sweeney paced the team's scoring efforts in the first half, registering all nine of her points during the stanza, and Emory shot 53.7 percent (22-of-41) from the floor in rolling to a 50-21 lead at the break.
The game was the Eagles' final contest before the start of final exams and the subsequent winter break. Emory returns to action on Dec. 29 when it plays Salem at the Piedmont College Invitational.
