by TROY, Alabama – The Troy university women’s basketball team got a double-double from Caitlyn Ramirez (Seminole Nation of Oklahoma) as the Trojans claimed a 65-54 victory over Texas State on Thursday at Trojan Arena.
Troy (11-4, 4-0) was air-tight defensively in the opening quarter holding Texas State to 2-of-13 shooting and just five points while Caitlyn Ramirez scored half of the team’s points in a 10-0 run to start the game. The senior forward finished the first half with 13 of Troy’s 27 points.
Sporadic shooting was the tale throughout the game especially in the first 20 minutes when both teams went into the the locker room hitting under 24 percent from the field. Troy was able to open its lead to 11 in the third quarter on a layup by Amahni Upshaw, who finished the game with 11 points and nine rebounds.
Texas State (6-9, 1-3) closed the gap to just one with 6:04 remaining in the contest, but the Trojans never relinquished the lead as Jayla Chills and Amanda Mendoza hit clutch 3-pointers in the final five minutes to keep the Bobcats at arm’s length.
Ramirez was steady throughout en route to her sixth career double-double scoring 21 points with 15 rebounds. She was 5-for-10 from the field and 8-for-8 from the free throw line.
Taeler Deer led the Bobcats with 17 points. Texas State shot 36.1 percent for the game while the Trojans were held to 22.7 percent from the field. Troy won the rebounding battle 53-37, the Trojans also shot 22-of-27 from the free throw line as a team.
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“I thing at the first media timeout, we were shooting 22 percent from the field,” Troy head coach Chanda Rigby said. “That put us in a hole and that was the downward spiral in the first half. In the second half, we made a few adjustments and found people that were on or fighting their hardest to try to win the game for us at the end.”
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Troy takes on UTA on Saturday in a bout that could have major implications in the Sun Belt Conference regular season title. Tipoff is set for 2 p.m.
