Women's Basketball 2/25/2012 8:25:00 PM

OCU captures piece of SAC title with 95-46 win over OBU

Top-ranked Stars will vie for their ninth SAC Tournament championship March 1-3 at John Brown

Dietra Caldwell totaled 17 points, six rebounds, three assists and five steals Saturday against Oklahoma Baptist.

OKLAHOMA CITY – No. 1-ranked Oklahoma City University grabbed a share of the Sooner Athletic Conference women's basketball regular-season championship after a 95-46 rout of Oklahoma Baptist on Saturday at Abe Lemons Arena.
The Stars, top-ranked in NAIA Division I, completed the regular season 27-1, 21-1 in the SAC. OCU will have the No. 1 seed in the SAC Tournament on March 1-3 in Siloam Springs, Ark.
OCU gains the tournament top seed based on its record against NAIA Division I opponents. Pairings for the league tournament will be finalized and released Sunday.
The Stars were SAC co-champions with Lubbock Christian (Texas). OCU has won or shared the SAC regular-season crown 13 times – in 1987, 1988, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2011 and now, 2012.
Dietra Caldwell, a senior from Missouri City, Texas, topped six Stars scoring in double figures with 17 points to go with six rebounds, three assists and five steals. Philicia Kelly, a senior from Nassau, Bahamas, led OCU's subs with 12 points and three rebounds.
Taylor Booze, Cara Pugh and Nicollette Smith each contributed 11 points for the Stars. Desiree Jeffries added 10 points, four rebounds and three steals, while Tiffany Goldwire chipped in eight points and a team-high 11 rebounds.
OCU owned advantages in bench points (42-29), points off turnovers (37-8) and points in the paint (32-18). The Stars took advantage of 32 Oklahoma Baptist turnovers.
OCU's 59.3 percent shooting from the field in the second half boosted its overall shooting in the game to 52.5 percent (32-for-61). OBU managed 26.7 percent shooting from the floor.
Jeffries' free throw at the 11:08 mark of the first half created a 20-4 advantage for OCU. Oklahoma Baptist hit its first two shots from the field, then missed its next 11. OBU committed nine turnovers in that stretch.
From nine seconds left in the first to 12:55 left in the game, OCU scored 21 unanswered points. Smith's 3-pointer with 1:34 to go produced OCU's largest margin of the game at 95-44.
The Stars swept the two-game regular-season series from Oklahoma Baptist by an average score of 98.5-47.5 with an average victory margin of 51 points.
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