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The High Point University women's basketball team outscored Longwood 42-21 in the second half to beat the Lancers by a score of 73-51 on Sunday afternoon in the Millis Center. Junior Erin Reynolds led the Panthers with 19 points including 11 in the second half.

"It has been a tough stretch with three games in five days," head coach Jennifer Hoover said. "Part of the scheduling process was to see how the kids would respond and I was proud with how we performed today. I thought our effort was fantastic. We went in at halftime and were only up one so we talked and made some adjustments. I think our ability to go out and make those adjustments in the second half was the difference today."

Reynolds shot 7-17 from the floor in the game and 3-5 from behind the arc to tie her season high with 19 points, finishing one-point shy of her career high. She also added five assists, two steals and a rebound on the day.

Sophomore Cheyenne Parker scored 15 points and had a team-high eight rebounds and a career-high six steals. Senior Shamia Brown scored in double figures for the fourth-straight game, coming away with 12 points and three rebounds. Laura Whitt finished in double-digits for the first time in her HPU career with 10 points.

High Point shot 41.3 percent (26-63) from the floor in the game while holding Longwood to 30 percent (18-60) shooting overall and 18.8 percent (6-32) in the second half. The Lancers were also 0-8 from behind the arc in the game.

The Panthers also out-rebounded Longwood 53-39 in the game and 31-17 in the second half. Junior Jazmin Cromartie tied for the team lead with a career-high eight rebounds and freshman Hanna Gunnoe had a career-high seven in just eight minutes of action.

The win was HPU's second in a row and improves High Point's record to 3-1 on the season while Longwood falls to 1-3. High Point remains undefeated at home with a 2-0 record in the Millis Center.

In the first half, Parker nabbed four steals in the first five minutes of the game, helping High Point to an early 8-4 lead. Longwood managed to fight back and took its first lead of the game with a 6-2 run that put the Lancers up 14-12 with 11 minutes left in the first half.

High Point rebounded with a 10-1 run to retake the lead at 22-15 with 6:16 remaining in the first half. The Panther lead was still five at 24-19 with just over four minutes remaining when two High Point turnovers and two fouls allowed the Lancers to battle back and retake the lead with an 11-5 run which culminated with an old-fashioned three-point play by Chelsea Coward with 57 seconds remaining.

A layup by freshman Hallie Gunnoe in the closing seconds pushed High Point back ahead by a score of 31-30 at halftime, culminating an opening 20 minutes which saw four ties and four lead changes.

The Panther's came out strong in the second half, led by Cheyenne Parker's five points in the first two minutes of play as High Point opened with a 9-1 run over Longwood to go ahead 40-31 with 16:30 left in the game.

The HPU lead was 10, 47-37, with 12 minutes remaining when Cromartie rebounded her own miss and laid it back in to spark a 21-4 run by the Panthers over the next 6:11. A jumper by sophomore Carter Williams capped off the run and gave High Point its largest lead of the game, 68-41, with 5:55 left.

The Panthers continue their four-game home stand on Friday, Nov. 25, when they face Mercer University at 7 p.m., at the Millis Center. HPU hopes to improve to 4-1 to start the season for the first time since the 1994-95 campaign. High Point is 1-1 all-time in two meetings with Mercer. The two squads last faced off in the 2009-10 season with HPU pulling out an 81-71 win at home.