Box Score Krystal Forthan and Adrienne Webb scored 27 points in leading LSU to a 67-35 win over Alabama State at the Maravich Assembly Center in Baton Rouge, La. Saturday afternoon.
 
“I think that we played a great first half,” Head Coach Freda Freeman-Jackson stated.  “The second half we didn't come out and play like we should have.  We didn't play offense nor did we play defense like we should have.  We turned over the ball entirely too much and we didn't give ourselves any second chances.  We had 30 turnovers and we can't win basketball games with that many turnovers.
 
This was the first game in two weeks for both teams.  Alabama State was led in scoring by freshmen Kierra Paige with nine and Danielle Gazaway with eight points.  Both Quentori Alford and Tamara Wadlington each had six points apiece.
 
“I think that Alford played a great game, she blended right on in with LSU and I thought she played really solid,” Freeman-Jackson said.
 
LSU shot 24-29 from the field at 49 percent, while Alabama State was 12-44 from the floor for a 27.3 figure.
 
In the first half, LSU broke away from a 4-4 tie at the 17:39 mark going up by eight taking a 21-13 lead with 8:54 on the clock as Bianca Lutley scored six points in the LSU run.  However, Alabama State went on a 5-0 rally and narrowed LSU's lead to three, 21-18 with 4:39 remaining.  The Lady Tigers scored the next six points and took a 29-21 lead into the locker room.
 
In the second half, Alabama State scored the first basket before allowing LSU to score points off of back-to-back turnovers building its largest lead of the game in the first eight minutes of the second half by 15 points with 11:03 left in the contest.
 
LSU went on a 10-0 run to finish the second half and never looked back, posting a 67-35 win.  The Lady Tigers held the Lady Hornets to just five field goals in the second half.  ASU committed 13 of its 30 turnovers in the second half and shot only 20 percent from the field (compared to 36 percent in the first half). 
 
ASU will play host to Troy on Thursday, December 15, at 6:00 p.m. at the Dunn-Oliver Acadome in the Lady Hornet's next action.