SAN MARCOS, Texas — Sunday afternoon was everything
Tianna Eaton has been working towards since arriving in San Marcos prior to the 2020-21 season as the UC Riverside transfer scored a career-high 21 points on 9-of-10 shooting as Texas State knocked off Texas College 105-37.
Eaton, a redshirt-senior out of Walnut, Calif., got into the scoring column on a second-chance layup less than 71 seconds into the second quarter. She added to her point total with jumpers on back-to-back possessions later in the third quarter, before capping the 10-minute stanza with a 3-pointer with 11 seconds left.
Throughout the game's final quarter, the 5-foot-10 guard continued blazing her way on the offensive end when Eaton scored 12 points on 5-of-5 shooting during the quarter. Her lone miss on the afternoon was her first field goal attempt – a 3-pointer — of the game with 47 seconds left in the first quarter and Texas State (5-2) holding onto a 20-9 lead.
Eaton, with her performance against Texas College, became the first Bobcat to score 20-or-more points in a game this season since
Da'Nasia Hood scored 21 against Arlington Baptist on Nov. 29, 2021. Eaton also surpassed her Texas State career-high scoring total (9 against ULM on Jan. 22, 2021) and went passed her UC Riverside career total (19 vs. Long Beach State on March 6, 2018) with her final basket of the game.
FROM HEAD COACH ZENARAE ANTOINE
"These games are opportunities for us work on a lot of different things — from a chemistry standpoint — but it also allows us to get players, who have been out or haven't had an opportunity, back in the flow of things and that's what we saw today. A lot of different players had the opportunity today to step in and work on some things we've been working on and work on some things they need to get better at while also working on conditioning at the same time. Today also allowed us to give some rest to other players and they could sit, watch and learn as their teammates are out there on the court."
HC ZENARAE ANTOINE, G JO'NAH JOHNSON, G TIANNA EATON
STAT LEADERS
SCORES BY QUARTER
- 1st | Texas State 22, Texas College 9
- 2nd | Texas State 45, Texas College 18
- 3rd | Texas State 74, Texas College 22
- 4th | Texas State 105, Texas College 37
MATCH NOTES
- Sunday afternoon's 105 points scored by the Texas State women's basketball team marked the most points scored by a Bobcat squad under head coach Zenarae Antoine. The previous high was a 102-point outing against Huston-Tillotson on Dec. 6, 2011.
- With its 105-point performance against Texas College, Sunday marked the first time a Texas State women's basketball team has scored triple-digit points since beating San Jose State, 100-67, on March 9, 2013.
- Texas State has now scored 100-or-more points in both matchups against Texas College. Prior to Sunday's 105-point outburst, the Bobcats also claimed a 100-42 win against Texas College in the two program's previous game on Nov. 13, 2009.
- The 105 points scored by the Texas State women's basketball team Sunday afternoon were the most points scored in a single game by the Bobcats since scoring 105 against Huston-Tillotson on Jan. 3, 2011.
UP NEXT
- Texas State will take its three-game winning streak to Beaumont, Texas, where the Bobcats will square off against Lamar on Friday, Dec. 10 at 7 p.m. inside the Montagne Center.
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