GREENVILLE, N.C.—Redshirt senior Jordyn Jenkins tallied 26 points and six rebounds as the UTSA women’s basketball team worked a 67-48 victory over East Carolina at Minges Coliseum in what represented the final contest of the American Athletic Conference’s regular-season
The Roadrunners (26-3, 17-1 The American) took down the Pirates (16-14, 8-10 The American) after already securing the regular-season title and a No. 1 seed in the American Women’s Championship. The win for the ‘Runners stretched their league total to 17, tying the program record from the 2002-03 season that saw the squad go 17-3.
In addition to Jenkins, sophomore Idara Udo was stellar, scoring 13 with 11 rebounds for her sixth double-double of the season. Graduate student Nina De Leon Negron charted 12 points with four rebounds and three assists, while junior Maya Linton swiped a pair of steals.
Jenkins scored eight in a stretch that saw UTSA jump out to a 10-0 lead in the first. The Pirates got a bucket with under three minutes in the period, as a triple halted the Roadrunner surge. Linton got a shot to fall, and ECU knocked down another from beyond the arc, working a 12-6 score line. A junior Sidney Love layup then wrapped up the frame, sending the squads into the second with UTSA up, 14-6.
The ’Runners opened the second with a 9-0 streak, featuring eight points by Jenkins that resulted in a 23-6 advantage. The Pirates broke the streak, but UTSA picked up right where they left off as a Rowe layup sparked another 6-0 rally, ahead of a 34-11 halftime lead.
Back-to-back triples for Jenkins and De Leon Negron saw a 44-18 edge in the third, and UTSA carried a 53-29 lead into the final frame.
ECU threatened a comeback in the fourth until a 7-0 streak that was capped off with an Udo layup built a 64-41 lead the Pirates could not recover from.=
UTSA will now turn its attention toward the American Women’s Basketball Championships, which span Sunday through Wednesday at Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, Texas.
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