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Senior Shamia Brown moved into first place on the High Point University women's basketball Div. I career scoring list in the Panthers' 84-58 win over Charleston Southern on Monday night at the Millis Center. The senior scored 13 points on the night, giving her 1,335 for her career.

"This was an outstanding effort by the team tonight to pick up a win over a very tough Charleston Southern team," head coach Jennifer Hoover said. "We talked a lot coming into the game tonight about how tough their offense was and that it was going to take a real commitment to defend both the dribble penetration and the three-point shot. I thought we started with a lot of intensity and were able to put them back on their heels early in the game."

Sophomore Cheyenne Parker led High Point in both scoring and rebounding on the night with 22 points and 17 rebounds for her conference-best 12th double-double of the season. Parker shot 9-11 from the floor and had a career-high 11 offensive rebounds. The center also blocked four shots and had four steals in the game.

All five starters scored in double figures for the Panthers as junior Erin Reynolds and sophomore Tayler Tremblay each contributed 11 points and junior Laura Whitt chipped in with 10. Reynolds and Tremblay each had four assists in the game to lead HPU.

Charleston Southern's Rachelle Coward came away with a game-high 23 points for the Lady Buccaneers. Lakeitha Alston scored 13 on the night and Erin Bratcher came away with 10 for CSU.

High Point improves to 12-6 on the season and remains undefeated in the Big South at 7-0.  The start by the Panthers matches HPU's best start in conference play since joining the Big South. High Point previously started 7-0 in 2005-06. Charleston Southern fell to 11-8 overall and 4-4 in the Big South with the loss.

The Panthers opened the game on an 8-3 run, including four points by Brown on back-to-back layups, but the Buccaneers came right back with a 7-0 run on buckets by Alston and Coward to go up by two with 15 minutes left in the half.  Following a Tremblay deuce, Coward hit a long distance three to give Charleston Southern a three-point lead, CSU's largest of the night.

A jumper by Whitt and a free throw by Brown tied the score at 13-13 and started a 23-7 run over the next nine minutes by HPU which culminated on a jumper by Tremblay to put the Panthers up by 13, 33-20, with 5:28 remaining in the half.

Charleston Southern cut the lead down to seven on a three-pointer by Shannon Sanders with 2:29 left, but High Point scored the final seven points of the half to go into the break up 14, 42-28.

Parker, Reynolds and Tremblay each finished the first half with eight points to pace HPU while Coward poured in 16 of CSU's 28 points on 6-7 shooting, including a perfect 2-2 on shots from behind the arc. The Panthers grabbed 14 offensive rebounds and forced 13 turnovers in the opening 20 minutes to finish with a 42-25 advantage in shots at the break.

High Point still led by 13, 48-35, with 16:29 remaining in the game when a 13-0 run by the Panthers over the next four minutes pushed the lead to 26, 61-35, with just over 12 minutes left. Five different players scored for HPU in the run led by junior Jazmin Cromartie who scored twice down low for four of her eight points in the game.

Brown chipped in during the run with a layup off a pass by Reynolds. The bucket gave Brown nine points for the game and 1,331 for her career, breaking the HPU Div. I career scoring record of 1,330 set by her former teammate Jurica Hargraves in the Panthers' Big South semifinal loss to Liberty last season.

The Panthers would build the lead to as large as 30 points, 82-52, with 2:23 left in the contest before ultimately winning by 26.

Charleston Southern entered Monday's game as the Big South's top-scoring team, averaging 73.1 points per game, but was limited to just 58 points on the night, its second-lowest point total of the season. The Panthers forced a season-high 27 turnovers and limited CSU to just 47 shots. HPU nabbed 12 steals in the game, including five by Reynolds.

High Point returns to action on Saturday, Jan. 28, when the Panthers will head to Rock Hill, S.C., to take on Winthrop University. The Panthers will look to start 8-0 in the conference play for the first time since joining the Big South in 1999 with a win over the Eagles. Tip-off for the game is set for 1 p.m.