Early Turnovers Too Much For Marshall Women’s Basketball To Overcome In Loss Against Coastal Carolina

 By Ben Anderson


    Early turnovers haunted Marshall Women’s Basketball as it fell to the Coastal Carolina Chanticleers 66-57.


    The Chanticleers quickly jumped to 8-0 in the first two minutes following back-to-back steals. 


    “We could have not started the game worse,” Marshall head coach Juli Fulks said during the postgame news conference. “It was a really tough start. We didn’t have the intensity we needed so they jumped us on a couple of turnovers for layups right away.”


    The Thundering Herd would find itself down by eleven at the end of the first quarter as the Chanticleers led 20-9.


    Marshall jump started its offense in the second quarter, outscoring Coastal Carolina 17-14. The Herd got as close as it would to tying the Chanticleers getting within two in the second quarter off a bucket by Aislynn Hayes with 4:16 left in the half to make it 25-23.


    The Chanticleers pounded the paint in the first half as it 20, of its 30 inside points in the first 20 minutes. 


    CC Mays led the Herd in scoring with 20 marking her fifth game of 20 or more points this season, which is a new career high. Hayes finished second among Thundering Herd scorers with 17.


    The Herd welcomed back Meredith Maier who had missed the last two weeks due to injury.


    “It was good for her to see the ball go through the net again and start to just get her legs under her on offense and defense,” Fulks said. “Taking a few weeks off is hard, it’s much harder than people think and just taking that first hit again. You have to get through all the mental stuff just as much as you have to get through the physical stuff.


    The Chanticleers continued to why it dominates the barnyard in the third quarter outscoring Marshall 20-12.


    The Chanticleers led by as much as 14 in the fourth quarter, before Marshall outscored the visitors 20-12. The Herd connected on three trifectas with one from Maier and two from Mays.


    With the loss, Marshall fell to 8-18, and 3-11 in the Sun Belt Conference while Coastal Carolina improved to 19-6, 9-5 in the Sun Belt Conference. 


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