SAINT LEO, Fla. (February 7, 2015) - Rollins
allowed just 16 second half points and rolled to a 64-46 win over
Saint Leo on the road Saturday. The 14th-ranked Tars
improve to 18-2 overall and remain on top of the Sunshine State
Conference standings at 9-1.
Sarah
Taylor led Rollins with 16 points while Ashley
Losch tallied a double-double with 15 points and 12 rebounds.
Tanaya
Jones chipped in nine points and five rebounds.
Mary Redmond netted 17 off the bench to pace Saint Leo (7-14,
2-9 SSC). Kinnara Lewis added 13 points and Melissa Jackson hauled
in 10 rebounds.
The Tars shot 40 percent (26-65) from the field and limited the
Lions to just 14-of-54 (26 percent). Rollins won on the glass 44-38
and forced 19 turnovers to just 11 committed.
Rollins never trailed in the game, leading 13-4 after five
minutes and 22-15 midway through the first. Leo came back to tie
the score 30-30 with 47 seconds left, but Taylor drained a jumper
on the Tars last possession to put Rollins up 32-30 at
intermission.
The Tars led 39-35 with 16:26 to play and went on a small 7-2
run, sparked by a Julia
Ingler putback and finished with an Ingler layup. After a Lewis
3-pointer for the Lions at the 11:58 mark, Rollins outscored Leo
7-0 over the next 6:18 and ran out to a 53-40 lead with 5:40
left.
The Tars went on to lead by as much as 19 in the final
minutes.
Rollins is on the road for its next game, traveling to Barry on
Wednesday, February 11 at 5:30 p.m. The Tars beat the Bucs 65-46 in
Winter Park earlier in the year. Fans can catch all the action live
on the Geico Tars Sports Network at RollinsSports.com and locally
on 91.5 FM WPRK.
