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Junior guard Alana Dudley scored 12 points to pace the Highlanders
58
Winner USC Upstate UPST 10-6, 1-0 A-Sun
41
NJIT NJIT 3-12, 0-1 A-Sun
Winner
USC Upstate UPST
10-6, 1-0 A-Sun
58
Final
41
NJIT NJIT
3-12, 0-1 A-Sun
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 F
USC Upstate UPST 12 15 18 13 58
NJIT NJIT 9 6 14 12 41

Game Recap: Women's Basketball |

NJIT Falls in A-Sun Conference Women's Basketball Opener to USC Upstate, 58-41

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NEWARK, NJ– Junior guard Alana Dudley scored 12 points for the NJIT women's basketball team, which dropped a 58-41 decision to University of South Carolina-Upstate in the Atlantic Sun Conference season opener for both schools Saturday in the Fleisher Athletic Center.

It marked the first-ever game in the A-Sun for the Highlanders, who entered as a member of the Atlantic Sun Conference  in July.

The Spartans (10-6, 1-0 A-Sun) scored the first points of the game and never relinquished the lead.

Senior Travonda Haddock, who scored a career-high 20 points, broke the seal on the game with a layup, followed by another layup from Brittany Clency (12 points) and the Spartans were on their way.

The Highlanders (3-12, 0-1 A-Sun) did slice the lead to 12-9 at the end of the first quarter on a free throw from senior forward Ronni Grandison, but the Spartans then scored 12 of the game's next 14 points to take a commanding 23-11 lead on a layup from A'Lexxus Davis with 4:09 left in the half. The Spartans led, 27-15, at intermission.

USC Upstate broke the game open in the third quarter, scoring the first seven points after the break for a 34-15 lead, capped by a conventional three-point play from Haddock.

The Highlanders drew to within 11 at 36-25 with 4:12 left in the third quarter on a jumper from Alana Dudley, who was the lone player to reach double figures for NJIT. But the Spartans gradually pulled away and led by as many as 22 in the fourth quarter.

Grandison and junior forward Leah Horton added nine points each for the Highlanders.

NJIT returns to action Monday night when they travel to face Ivy League foe Columbia at 7 p.m. to conclude its non-conference schedule.

The Highlanders will make its first trip to Florida as a member of the A-Sun to face Stetson and Florida Gulf Coast next weekend and return home on Saturday, Jan. 23, and host North Florida, with game time scheduled for 1 p.m.  That game will be part of a doubleheader with the men's team, tipping at 4pm.

Courtesy James Hague
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