BOWIE, Md. –  The Bowie State Bulldogs women's basketball team dominated from beginning to the end on Monday night, routing Fayetteville State by a final count of 71-52. With the win, the Bulldogs improved its season mark to 11-3 overall and 4-1 in the CIAA.
 
Senior Kiara Colston (Burtonsville, Md.) paced three Bowie State double figure scorers with a game 16 points. Senior Kyah Proctor (Capital Heights, Md.) added 11 points and sophomore Amel Duggins (Largo, Md.) came off the bench to record a career-high 11 points. Bulldogs sophomore Kyaja Williams (Baltimore, Md.) fell just shy of a double-double, contributing nine points and a game-high 11 rebounds.
 
Graduate student Sade Chatman (Minneapolis, Minn.) contributed eight points while senior Ty-Nita Baker (Houston, Miss.) and redshirt junior Pere Alexander (Baltimore, Md.) chipped in five points each for Bowie State. Freshman Talanya Hutton (Seat Pleasant, Md.) and sophomore Dynaisha Christian (Pocomoke, Md.) came off the Bulldogs bench to add four and two points respectively.
 
The Bulldogs jumped out to a comfortable 30-5 first quarter advantage over the Broncos and carried a 40-21 into intermission. Bowie State's defense held Fayetteville State to 25 percent shooting from the field over the first 20 minutes as the Broncos managed to make just 8-of-32 field goals.
 
Bowie State kept the pressure on in the third and fourth quarters as well and never allowed Fayetteville State (4-9 / 0-5 CIAA) any closer than 15 points. The Broncos did outscore the Bulldogs in the third quarter, just as FSU did in the second quarter. However, Bowie State's defense continued to put the clamps on Fayetteville State and substituted freely most of the second half.
 
Neither team shot the ball particularly well the entire contest. Fayetteville State ended the night just under 30 percent (29.4) in field goal shooting (20-of-68) while Bowie State was slightly over 30 percent (33.3) from the field (23-of-69). Free throws (23-of-28) were a big plus for the Bulldogs (82.1 percent) compared to 10-of-17 (58.8 percent) for the visitors.
 
Bowie State held advantages in rebounds (54-46), which was a season-high, points off turnovers (19-4), second chance points (16-8) and bench points (34-23).
 
Yakima Clifton (Durham, N.C.) was the only Broncos player to reach double figure scoring with 10 points and added seven rebounds, a pair of assists, one steal and she was responsible for four of Fayetteville State's six blocked shots.
 
The Bulldogs make a long road trip to Salisbury, N.C. on Wednesday (January 10th) to face the Blue Bears of Livingstone College at 5:30 p.m. in the New Trent Gymnasium.