BOWIE, Md. – Bowie State Bulldogs women's basketball rolled by visiting Shaw University on Saturday afternoon, defeating the Lady Bears 73-49. The win improves the Bulldogs' record to 10-3 overall and 3-1 in league play.
 
Leading the Bulldogs offensively was senior Kiara Colston (Burtonsville, Md.) with a personal season-best 23 points on 9-of-13 shooting from the field to go along with four rebounds and a game-high five assists. Fellow senior Kyah Proctor (Capital Heights, Md.) contributed 14 points and pulled down seven rebounds. Senior Ty-Nita Baker (Houston, Miss.) came off the bench to add 10 points. Sophomore Dynaisha Christian (Pocomoke, Md.) tied her career-high in rebounds with eight and added five points.
 
The Bulldogs carried a 30-21 lead into intermission and made 11-of-30 first half field goals (36.7 percent), which included 31.3 percent (5-of-15) beyond the arc.  Shaw managed just 6-of-22 (percent) shooting over the first 20 minutes.
 
With a two-point advantage before tip-off, courtesy of an administrative technical foul on Bowie State, the Lady Bears lead was short lived as BSU's Proctor drained a 3-pointer. Shaw's Johnson-Tyler shifted the lead back over to the Lady Bears at 4-3. The lead would change hands two more times over the next two minutes before a Colston triple tied the contest at 8-all at the 4:52 mark. The Bulldogs closed the opening quarter with a 7-1 run to take a 15-9 lead they would not relinquish for the remainder of the afternoon.
 
A 3-pointer from the Lady Bears' Raquel Kellow (Conroe, Texas) pulled Shaw within three to start the second quarter but BSU started to pull away from Shaw led by a 13-5 scoring margin with 2:35 remaining in the first half. The Lady Bears would outscore the Bulldogs 4-2 in the last 2:15 to fall behind 30-21 at halftime.
 
Bowie State outscored Shaw in all four quarters, including a 22-12 third quarter domination that pulled the Bulldogs away from Shaw heading into the fourth.
 
The final quarter featured much of the same for the Lady Bears as the Bulldogs scored nine points off six Shaw turnovers. The Lady Bears would not get any closer than 17 points (64-47) for the remainder of the contest.
 
Shaw's offensive struggle resulted in the Lady Bears shooting 36 percent from the floor (18-of-50), 12.5 percent from long distance (1-of-8) and just 63.2 percent from the charity stripe (12-of-19).
 
Shaw (3-12 / 1-3 CIAA) was led by Lervencia Johnson-Tyler's (Many, La.) double-double of 21 points and 10 points while Tahniya Sweatt (Pasadena, Calif.) tallied 11 points in the loss.
 
The Bulldogs will entertain the Lady Broncos of Fayetteville State in its next conference matchup on Monday (January 8th) with game time set for 5:30 p.m.