INDIANAPOLIS – The IUPUI women's basketball fans got their first look at the 2017-18 Jags at the Red White Scrimmage on Monday (Oct. 30) and the team gave the fans a show.
The Jags played a condensed scrimmage of four five-minute quarters and it came down to the last possession with the Red team coming out on top 32-31 in a tale of two halves.
Holly Hoopingarner led the Red team with 14 points on 6-for-8 shooting, including 2-for-3 from behind the arc.
Jenna Gunn was second on the team with nine points on 4-for-9 shooting. Freshman
Sydney Roule was third on the squad with five points on 2-for-3 shooting, hitting 1-of-2 deep.
Freshman center
Macee Williams owned the boards pulling down seven rebounds for a Red team that outrebounded the White team 21-14.
The White team got its best offensive performance from freshman
Brittany Welch who finished the game with 13 points on 5-for-10 shooting, with most of her damage coming in the second half. Welch was 2-for-3 from three and also added a three-point play.
Sydney Hall was the second leading scorer for the White team with five points and
Danielle Lawrence and
Morgan Allen each had four points.
"The Red/White scrimmage is always a lot of fun and tonight was no different," said Head Coach Austin Parkinson. I thought the kids competed hard on both ends and put on a good show for the fans."
In the first quarter, the Red team got off to a hot start thanks to 6-for-6 shooting from the field including hitting their only three. After the first five minutes, the Red team was up 12-2.
The Red squad kept the up the pressure in the second quarter, outscoring the White team 8-3 on route to a 20-5 halftime lead.
The second half was a different story as the White team outscored Red 16-4 in the third quarter to cut the lead. In the fourth quarter,
Sydney Hall hit a three to pull within one possession but back-to-back threes by Hoopingarner helped the Red team pull away and take the victory.
After the scrimmage, the women and the men competed in a three-point contest with three players from each team taking turns shooting 15 shots. The men started with T.J. Henderson knocking down 11 threes. Roule was the first woman to shoot and gave the women eight points.
Ron Patterson's seven points extended the men's lead and Hall was only able to add six points in her round, leaving the women down 18-14 after two rounds.
To begin the final round, Camron Justice put the men up 27-14 with Lawrence the last shooter for the women. Lawrence gave it her best at one point making six-in-a-row but ultimately fell short making 10 shots and the men took the three-point competition 27-24.
The women open up their schedule on Thursday (Nov. 2) with an exhibition matchup against Urbana starting at 7 p.m. in The Jungle. If you can't make it to the game it will be broadcast on ESPN3 with Scott Agness on the call.
