MONTICELLO, Ark. – SWOSU Women's Basketball used the best shooting performance of the season to take down Arkansas-Monticello on the road, 74-69.

The win earns the Lady Bulldogs a split on the first Arkansas road trip of the season and moves them to 7-5 on the year and 4-2 in GAC play. It was a strong response after suffering the worst defeat of the year to Southern Arkansas (88-55) two days prior.

In the game, SWOSU shot a season high 46% from the field and found success inside the arc with 32 points in the paint and another 18 at the foul line. The Lady Dawgs also set a new season best in both free throw attempts, 29, and makes, 18 for a 62% clip.

After a slow burn first quarter where teams combined to score just 19 points, things got rolling in the second when SWOSU shot a game high 58% from the field to build a 35-27 halftime lead.

UAM used a 13-2 third quarter run to take a brief lead after halftime, but SWOSU settled back down and led 55-51 heading into the fourth.

The Lady Bulldogs pushed their lead back out to double digits in the fourth quarter and endured a pair of UAM pushes with timely answers to avoid any chance of a Blossom comeback.  

Libbi Zinn turned in her third double-digit scoring performance of the season with a 17-point scoring day to lead the team, a new season high. Mason Jones added 14 of her own on 5-of-6 shooting from the field. Averi Zinn gave 12 more.

SWOSU was outrebounded 32-29 but won the turnover battle 21-16.

Up next on the schedule will be back-to-back home games next Thursday (1/11) and Saturday (1/13) against Arkadelphia foes Henderson State and Ouachita Baptist. 16 GAC games remain in the regular season.