Alabama State women's basketball dropped a 77-53 loss on the road to Georgia Tech, Wednesday night.  Sophomore Britney Wright led the Lady Hornets with 14 points and also pulled down three boards.
                                                                                                                                         
Alabama State shot 12 of 28 from the charity stripe, shooting 42.9 percent. They only shot 34.7 percent from the floor, while holding Georgia Tech to 37.8 percent shooting.
 
"We always know that this is going to be a tough match-up when we came in here tonight," said head coach Freda Freeman-Jackson.  "I feel that we played good the first few minutes of the half, but Georgia Tech was able to go on a run and we could not make a defensive stop.  Now in the second half we were able to stop them from running the score up on us holding them to 32 second half points.  The key to this was making free throws and that's something we didn't do well at all."
 
Georgia Tech (7-4) had three players in double figures. Kaela Davis led all scorers with 33 points, while Zaire O'Neil and Aaliyah Whiteside scored 10 points apiece in the victory. 
 
The Lady Hornets struggled with ball control, committing 19 turnovers on the night, but also forced 10 by the Tech. There were a total of six lead changes and two ties.
 
The Yellow Jackets ended the first half with a 20-point lead over the Lady Hornets (45-25).  The Lady Hornets were only able to shoot 34.7 percent in the first half and turned the ball over only four times.  Brittney Smith and Tabitha Bradshaw had nine points apiece, while Jasmine Peeples had six points, and led on the boards with eight. 
 
Coming out of the break, both teams exchanged baskets.  Every time ASU would chip into the Yellow Jackets' lead, Georgia Tech's Davis would make deep three-pointers to advance their lead to 25 at the 11:42 mark.  Alabama State tried to rally back by getting to the free throw line ,but were only able to cut the lead to 18 before ending the contest.
 
"We had opportunities to come back," Jackson-Freeman said.  "We took the missed opportunities lightly.  We missed 11 free throws in the second half that could have put us closer than just 18 points.  We also had balls that just didn't drop for us.  It seemed like they just went in and came right back out.  I do want to say that we did play hard and tough and that's how we need to continue to play down the line."
                                                                            
The Lady Hornets will return to the court Friday as they play host to Mobile, December 19 at 5 p.m. at the Dunn-Oliver Acadome in Montgomery.