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Brennyn Seagler
Brennyn Seagler tallied her third double-double this season Saturday.
64
Mid-America Christian (Okla.) MACU 14-5, 7-3
82
Winner Oklahoma City University OCU 18-0, 10-0
Mid-America Christian (Okla.) MACU
14-5, 7-3
64
Final
82
Oklahoma City University OCU
18-0, 10-0
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 F
Mid-America Christian (Okla.) MACU 12 22 14 16 64
Oklahoma City University OCU 19 16 24 23 82

Game Recap: Women's Basketball |

Women's Hoops Extends Season Opening Streak to 18 with Win over MACU

OCU Off to Second Best Start in Program History After 82-64 Victory

OKLAHOMA CITY - On Saturday afternoon, head coach Bo Overton and the Oklahoma City University women's basketball team went in search of their 18th straight win to open the season. The Stars entered play with a 17-0 mark for the fourth time in program history, but two of those previous three streaks had ended at 17. Thanks to another dominant effort from their post players.

Brennyn Seagler and Abby Selzer each posted double-doubles for the second straight game as OCU (18-0, 10-0 SAC) used a 26-18 advantage in the paint, as well as a 19-9 edge in second chance points, to defeat Mid-America Christian University (14-5, 7-3 SAC), 82-64.

"I think you have to give MACU a lot of credit with how well they played in the first half," remarked head coach Bo Overton after the win. "I thought they really shot the ball well and executed; and then I thought at halftime we made some adjustments that helped us get to them a little closer, and I thought even on offense we adjusted well. They were throwing a couple different defenses at us that we had to recognize and get people to the right spots, and once we did that, our shots started going in a little better."

Seagler opened the scoring with just 22 seconds elapsed, but the teams collectively got off to a sluggish start. MACU answered with two 3-point field goals to take a 6-2 lead, but the teams combined to open the game 5-for-20 from the field. Late in the opening quarter, Seagler buried consecutive 3-pointers to ignite a 12-0 OCU run, and after 10 minutes of play, OCU led 19-12.

The Stars quickly pushed their lead to 11 in the second frame on a basket from Shamika Smith with 8:13 to play in the first half, but MACU answered with a 9-0 run to cut the Stars lead to 25-23. OCU, though, was able to keep the Evangels from leveling the score, and a 3-pointer from Mallory Lockhart with 2:16 to play pushed the OCU advantage to 33-28. A buzzer-beating triple from MACU, though, cut the halftime lead for OCU to a scant one point at 35-34.

The first half played at a blistering pace in actual time, if not on the court. There were only four fouls called between the two teams in the opening 20 minutes, which took only 25 minutes of actual time to complete.

The teams traded the lead early in the second half, and Taylor Sylvester tied the score at 39 with a jumper at the 8:15 mark of the third quarter. That shot set off another 7-0 spurt for the Stars, as OCU pushed their lead back out to five points. MACU managed to close the gap to 44-43 with 5:06 to play, but OCU closed the period on a 15-5 run to take a 59-48 lead to the fourth quarter. 

After MACU scored first in the final frame, Sylvester answered with a jumper in the paint of her own to restore the 11-point margin, and the Stars lead was reduced to single digits only once in the final eight minutes of play. OCU led by as many as 16 in the middle stages of the quarter, and after MACU cut the margin to 11 with 2:41 to play, OCU scored the final seven points of the game to take the win, 82-64.

The Stars did an outstanding job defensively on the Sooner Athletic Conference's second leading scorer, holding MACU's Alexis Shannon to only five points in the game, 14 points below her season average. It marked only the fifth time since Shannon transferred to MACU prior to the 2017-18 season that she had been held to that few points, and it was her lowest point total so far this season.

On the other side of that coin, Selzer and Seagler were outstanding on the offensive end for OCU. Selzer led all scorers with 22 points in the game, and she reeled in 10 rebounds, while Seagler contributed a dozen points, grabbed 11 boards and dished out a team leading seven assists. Lockhart and Erika Ankney provided the perimeter scoring, as the duo combined to sink nine 3-point shots. Ankney scored 19 points and had three steals, and 14 points. Smith handed out five assists, and Sylvester rejected four MACU shots.

As a team, OCU was 28 of 71 (39.4%) from the floor and 11 of 33 (33.3%) from behind the arc. The biggest shooting advantage OCU had in the game came in volume at the free throw line, where OCU made 15-of-16 (93.8%) free throws. MACU was perfect from the line, but they only attempted five foul shots.

OCU now stands alone in second place for longest undefeated start to a season with 18 straight wins. The only longer streak for OCU came in the 2002-03 season when OCU won their first 34 straight games, proceeding all the way to the NAIA National Championship game before falling 71-70 to Southern Nazarene (Okla.).

The Stars will open the second half of the conference schedule on Thursday evening. The Stars will hit the road and head to McPherson, Kansas where they will take on the Central Christian College Tigers (5-12, 2-8 SAC) at Jerry E. Alexander Arena. The game is scheduled to tip-off at 6 p.m.
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