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Majors Dominate Last Four Minutes to Route Pirates

Georgetown, Texas – With 4:08 remaining in the game, Southwestern's Annie Bourne hit a layup to bring the Pirates within four in front of their home crowd. The Majors responded with a 15-0 to finish the game as they made an emphatic statement on the road with a dominating win, 79-60. Millsaps picked up their 14th consecutive victory and improved their record to 17-2 overall and 9-1 in the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference.  
 
The Majors wasted little time as they raced out to an 11-3 lead as four of the five starters got on the board early. However, the Pirates eased their way back into the game as tied it up at 18 after a three pointer from Jordan Owens. Moments before that three, freshman Velvet Johnson found herself on the bench for the remainder of the half with foul trouble and did not score a point.
 
The two teams finished the last two minutes back-and-forth as they found themselves deadlocked at 29 going into half.
 
After the two teams traded buckets to start the second half, Johnson wasted little time to get on the board as she hit a three pointer to put Millsaps up 34-31. Shortly after, layups from senior Janice Okeke, sophomore Shatoya White, and junior Shante Morton gave the Majors their biggest lead of the game at 40-31.
 
The two teams traded buckets and free throws before Johnson hit her second three of the game at the 14:01 mark to increase Millsaps' lead to 47-37. The Majors held onto the lead throughout the midway point of the second half, before Southwestern began to chip away at the lead around the nine minutes mark.
 
The Pirates were able to get some stops and follow it up with some baskets and after a jumper from Valerie Logan at the 6:20 mark; Southwestern had gotten the game down to two at 55-53.
 
Millsaps responded with a free throw from Okeke and back-to-back layups from White and Okeke to push the lead back out to seven. Southwestern against countered and got the deficit down to four with 4:08 remaining.
 
From there, Millsaps took over. After two free throws from Morton, freshman Samantha Perez sailed in with a layup followed by another layup from Okeke. One free throw from White and two more from Perez brought the score to 73-60.
 
The Majors were not done though as they picked up three straight layups from Okeke and two from Johnson to finish off the Pirates for good and leave Georgetown with the win.
 
Okeke had a huge night with 20 points and 14 rebounds and also added a career high seven steals, three blocks, and one assist. Morton followed her up with 17 points and 16 rebounds for her 13th double-double of the season. Johnson was on fire in the second half as she picked up all 18 of her points while shooting 7-for-12 during the half.
 
Perez added 10 points while White hit timely shots with nine points and added a career high eight assists in 38 minutes.
 
The Majors are back on the road as they travel to San Antonio, Texas on Sunday to take on the Trinity Tigers. Tipoff is set for 1 p.m.
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