Women's Basketball 3/1/2012 6:31:00 PM

OCU tramples John Brown 88-54

No. 1-ranked Stars amass 53 second-half points

Taylor Booze rang up 14 points, five rebounds, four assists and three steals Thursday.

SILOAM SPRINGS, Ark. – No. 1-ranked Oklahoma City University buried John Brown (Ark.) 88-54 on Thursday at Bill George Arena in the Sooner Athletic Conference women's basketball tournament quarterfinals.
The Stars, top-ranked in NAIA Division I, advanced to meet St. Gregory's at 3 p.m. Friday in the tournament semifinals. OCU moved to 28-1.
OCU nailed 14 treys to finish one off its season high. SAC player of the year Dietra Caldwell, a senior from Missouri City, Texas, boosted the Stars with 19 points, six rebounds and three assists while firing in five 3-pointers.
Nicollette Smith, a senior from Tulsa, Okla., posted 15 points and three 3s, and Taylor Booze, a senior from Duncanville, Texas, had 14 points, five rebounds, four assists and three steals for the Stars.
Tiffany Goldwire grabbed a game-high 10 rebounds as OCU owned advantages in rebounding (50-30) and second-chance points (28-6).
OCU shook off 31.6 percent shooting from the field in the first half to knock in 51.3 percent in the second. The Stars rolled using a 17-4 second-half run to create a 62-35 advantage with 11:08 left in the game.
“The kids played loose the second half,” OCU coach Rob Edmisson said. “They were a little tight the first half.”
Smith ignited OCU's 17-4 run by canning a jumper and a 3. The Stars sank three 3-pointers during that stretch. Lauren Gober and Kayla MacKenzie drilled treys to cap the spree.
Smith's 3-pointer provided OCU its largest lead of the contest at 77-42 at the 5:41 mark.
OCU built an early 12-0 advantage while John Brown missed its first six shots from the field and turned the ball over five times. John Brown righted itself to tie the game 15-15 using a 10-0 run. Anna Parish's 3 knotted the game.
The Stars answered as Booze hit a jumper and Gober dropped in a trey. OCU continued to pull away the rest of the way.
Boxscore

Sooner Athletic Conference Tournament
WOMEN
At Siloam Springs, Ark.
Bill George Arena
Thursday's Results
Quarterfinals
Lubbock Christian 87, Northwestern Oklahoma State 57
St. Gregory's 58, Rogers State 50
Southern Nazarene 73, Oklahoma Baptist 66
Oklahoma City 88, John Brown 54
Friday's Games
Semifinals
Lubbock Christian vs. Southern Nazarene, 1 p.m.
Oklahoma City vs. St. Gregory's, 3 p.m.
Saturday's Game
Championship
Semifinal winners, 4 p.m.

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