BUIES CREEK, N.C. – Tatyana Crowder and Keyen Green scored in double figures to give Liberty a 46-33 win over Campbell on Saturday afternoon inside Gore Arena
Crowder and Green combined for 25 points on 12-of-16 shooting, with 13 and 12 points, respectively. The Flames (16-8, 11-1) converted 18 offensive boards into 22 second chance points, holding a 16-point advantage in that category.
Campbell's (12-11, 5-7) offense was led by eight points from
Summer Price, followed by
Ashlyn Hampton's six points and
Kyra Davis' five.
Liberty regained the lead early in the third quarter, 25-19, using a 10-3 run over first 4:21 of the period. CU closed the gap to four, 25-21, late in the third quarter. A 7-0 spurt into the fourth pushed the lead to double digits for the visitors, as they reached their largest lead of 14, at 44-30, with 2:07 remaining.
Green led all scorers in the opening half, scoring six points on 3-of-5 shooting (60 percent), but Campbell held a one-point edge, 16-15, at the intermission. Price led Campbell's offense with five points, while
Hayley Barber tallied four.
Both sides held multi-possession leads, as Campbell opened up on a 5-0 run, but a 7-3 run by the Flames in the second quarter gave them their largest lead of four, 14-10, in the half.
Liberty held the advantage in the paint, 28-12, and turned 17 Campbell turnovers into 20 points. CU's bench outscored LU's, 12-8, as
Kyra Davis and
Hayley Barber combined for nine points.
Campbell shot 40 percent from long range (6-15) while Liberty was held to just 14.3 percent (2-14). The Flames shot three points better from the floor, knocking down 36 percent (18-50), while CU converted on just 33 percent of its shots (12-36).
Campbell returns home on Tuesday evening at 7 p.m. against Presbyterian.