Jeter Pushes Towson Past Delaware and Into CAA Semifinals
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NEWARK, Del. (March 14, 2019) – Kionna Jeter recorded her second double-double of the season, tallying a game-high 30 points and 10 rebounds to lead No. 4 Towson over No. 5 Delaware in the quarterfinals of the 2019 CAA Women’s Basketball Championship.
Towson (18-13), which never trailed in the game, advances to the semifinals for the first time since 2008 and will face ninth-seeded Hofstra on Friday at 1 p.m. The Tigers and the Pride have made a combined one appearance in the CAA Championship, when the Pride fell to James Madison in 2015. Delaware falls to 16-15 on the season.
Samone DeFreese fueled a 9-3 Delaware run that closed the Blue Hens’ deficit to one, 37-36, late in the third quarter. However, Q. Murray and Jeter helped spur a 10-0 response from Towson across the end of the third and beginning of the fourth quarters, pushing the Tigers’ lead to 11, 48-37, 12 seconds into the final quarter.
Delaware would have one more run, as a DeFreese 3-point play cut the Blue Hens’ gap to 51-49 with 1:11 to play, but Murray countered with a layup on Towson’s ensuing possession and the Tigers went 6-of-6 at the free-throw line to ice the game.
Towson held Delaware to 29.1 percent shooting and limited the Blue Hens to just one 3-pointer in the game.
DeFreese led the Blue Hens with 15 points on 5-of-14 shooting in the loss. Jasmine Dickey scored all nine of her points in the second quarter and pulled down a team-high nine rebounds.