Texas-Tyler Advances to Second Straight ASC Championship Title Game

Teylor Seals and the No. 1 seed Texas-Tyler Patriots extended their win streak to 21 games to advance to the ASC Championship finals.

2/27/2015 11:33:19 PM

Final Box Score

No. 1 Texas-Tyler 76, No. 4 Howard Payne 47

TYLER, Texas -- Texas-Tyler continued its historic season, defeating Howard Payne 76-47 for its 21st-straight win, while punching its ticket to the 2015 American Southwest Conference women's basketball championship final.

Five Patriots scored in double digits, asTexas-Tyler (26-1) fought off a tough Howard Payne (16-11) squad that featured the nation's leading-scorer, Danyel Bradley.

Bradley and the Ladyjackets kept things close in the first half, coming back from a 10-point deficit with 5:56 remaining in the opening-half.

Sarahi Castillo made a pair of buckets in a one minute-span, cutting the Patriots' lead to just 30-28 with 3:17 left in the first frame.

Texas-Tyler would respond itself over the last three minutes, closing out the half on a 9-to-1 run, taking a 39-29 lead into the locker room. The Patriots shot just 37-percent in the first 20 minutes, a stat that would change for the better in the second half.

The Patriots would put the game away in the first three and-a-half minutes of the second half, going on a crushing 12-0 run, going up 51-29 with 16:47 left to play.

Makenzi May would put the home team up by as much as 32 points, 76-44 with 2:00 minutes to play, holding on to win 76-47.

Texas-Tyler would shoot 54-percent in the second half, while the defense held HPU to a stunning 16-percent, as the Lady Jackets made just six shots over the final 20 minutes.

Jasmin Baskin would lead the way for the Patriots scoring 19 points, while May finished with 17 points in the win.

Brittany King would finish the night with 13 points, while fellow post-players D'Onna Matthews and Madison Wilson would finish with 12 and 10 apiece.

Texas-Tyler will now look to win its second-straight ASC Tournament Championship as they take on rival Texas Dallas at 4 p.m. on Saturday.

The Comets and Patriots have met twice this season, with UTD winning 55-47 on December 5, and the Patriots winning 69-59 in Richardson a month ago.

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