Guest abovetherim Posted March 15, 2008 Report Posted March 15, 2008 Foster's double-double helps Road Runners win Southland title 2007-08 Season DATE GAME LINKS Jan 12, 2008 LAM 75, @UTSA 74 Recap | Box Score · Mar 15, 2008 @UTSA 65, LAM 56 Recap | Box Score Next 5 Games LAMAR (ET) TEXAS-SAN ANTONIO (ET) · Complete Schedule: Lamar | Texas-San Antonio KATY, Texas (AP) -- Amanda Foster played her best when her team needed it the most. Foster had 16 points, 13 rebounds and four blocks to help Texas-San Antonio defeat Lamar 65-56 in the Southland Conference tournament title game Saturday. Terrie Davis added 15 points and Monica Gibbs 14 to help the third-seeded Roadrunners to their first NCAA tournament appearance. "Amanda had her best game all year," said Texas-San Antonio coach Rae Rippetoe-Blair whose team won its first conference tournament. "And what a time to have such a great game. We knew we had to outrebound them and she helped us do that." Foster, a senior, had averaged 7.9 points and 6.2 rebounds entering the tournament. "Being a senior I thought this could be my last game," Foster said. "I just told myself, if this is going to be my last game, I don't want to leave anything on the court. I gave it everything I had." Davis hit her first three 3-pointers to help Texas-San Antonio to a 15-4 lead the first 6 minutes. "They were leaving me open," Davis said of her big first half. "And my teammates were getting me the ball, so I just put it up." The Roadrunners' 21-point lead went to five in the second half. "We knew we had a big lead in the second half," Gibbs said. "The main thing we had to do was just keep our composure and we did." Texas-San Antonio takes a 23-9 mark and a school record for wins into the NCAA tournament. Tamara Abalde led Lamar with 20 points, 14 in the second half. Nikki Williams added 16 points as the fourth-seeded Cardinals finished 19-13. Coach Larry Tidwell said his team has been assured an invitation to the Women's National Invitational Tournament. ;D ;D Texas-San Antonio built a 30-10 lead with 7:08 left in the first half. Lamar struggled shooting from the field in the first half. The Cardinals missed 20 of their first 22 shots from the field and were outrebounded 24-13 in that span. "The first half we just couldn't get any rhythm going," Tidwell said. "We played well. We just didn't get the ball to the people we have to get the ball to." "But we didn't panic and I thought we made a pretty good effort to come back in the second half." Abalde scored the first seven points of the second half as the Cardinals made their run. "We talked about it at the half," Abalde said. "We just tried to fix the things we were doing wrong and play harder." The Runners led 38-17 at the half as Davis hit 4 of 8 3-pointers. http://sports.espn.go.com/ncw/recap?gameId=280752636
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