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(BOWIE, Md.) Ten different Bowie State players scored in the game with junior Lakisha Walker (Baltimore, MD, St. Frances Academy) scoring a game-high 14 points, leading the Lady Bulldogs to a 70-51 victory over the Hawks of Chowan. The win improves Bowie State 5-2 in the CIAA and 5-4 overall.

Chowan (6-7 / 4-5 CIAA) led only once in the game at 3-0 at the 19:11 mark before Bowie State began to show their supremacy. Junior Teaunsha Robinson put BSU's Lady Bulldogs in front to stay with a layup and free throw a little over two minutes later.

The Bowie State defense really kicked it up, outscoring Chowan 16-4 to take a commanding 21-8 advantage. Chowan closed out the first half with a 11-9 scoring advantage, but trailed 30-19 at the break.
Bowie State started the second period with a 9-0 run and would not allow the Hawks of Chowan to get closer than a dozen points fro the rest of the evening.

Bowie State held a five rebound advantage at halftime (24-19), and outrebounded Chowan 51-34 overall. Sophomore Juliette Turner (Silver Spring, MD, John F. Kennedy) came off the Lady Bulldogs bench to haul down a game and career-high 12 rebounds and added 11 points.

Neither team shot particularly well from the field. Both teams wrapped up the game shooting 37 percent with Chowan hitting 17-of-46 from the floor and Bowie State connected on 28-of-76 from the floor.

The Bowie State defense forced 26 Chowan turnovers, which translated into 22 points. Bowie State's bench outscored the Chowan bench 46-16.

Outside of Walker and Turner's offensive output, junior Teaunsha Robinson (Baltimore, MD, Baltimore Polytechnic) scored 11 points and junior Aanika Dobbins (Gambrills, MD, Arundel, Marymount Univ.) added a career-high nine points in her first game of the season.

Talaya Lynch and Naomi Walters paced Chowan's Hawks with 11 points each and Ransheeda Jennings contributed 10 points. Lynch topped Chowan in rebounds with nine and Taylor Hughes pulled down five in the loss.

Bowie State will take a day off before returning to action – Monday (January 11) hosting Fayetteville State University's Lady Broncos at 5:30 p.m.