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JEFFERSON CITY, Tenn. – Led by Madi Suddreth’s season-high 30 points, the Lenoir-Rhyne University women shocked 20th-ranked Carson-Newman 78-75 on Wednesday night in basketball, halting the Eagles’ home win streak at 27 games.
Suddreth, a 5-foot-11 senior forward from Taylorsville, had the second-highest scoring game of her career to help provide Bears head coach Cameron Sealey with her first coaching victory over a Top 20 team.
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“We went to Madi Suddreth all night,” Sealey said in an LRU press release. “She had a hot hand and wanted the ball.
“When you have your senior captain calling for the ball it just instills confidence in every player on the team.”
The Bears (6-3, 2-1 South Atlantic Conference) had not won on the Eagles’ floor since Feb. 8, 2014.
Kendall Toinetta, a 5-8 senior guard from Cherokee, added 16 points and nine assists for LRU while Karlie Bearden, a 6-foot junior forward from Dawsonville, Ga., added 14 points.
The Bears, who rank sixth nationally in free-throw shooting, made 20 of 22 against the Eagles (6-3, 1-2). Carson-Newman hit 15 of its 16 three throws.
LRU shot 48.2 percent and limited Carson-Newman to 41.3 percent.
The Bear scored 21 points via forcing 17 turnovers and the Eagles got 11 points from the 17 turnovers they forced.
Toinetta is sixth in the country in free-throw percentage (94.1), 11th in assists (45) and 17th in assists per game (5.6).
Carson-Newman had a four-game win streak in the series.
LRU’s next game is Dec. 15, a 2 p.m. tipoff at Anderson (S.C.) for a SAC game.
— Reported by LRU Sports Information