• Senior Shea Morgan led HPU with 16 points and five rebounds.
• Senior Emma Bockrath was tops on the team with five assists and five steals.
• The Panthers out-scored the Buccaneers 22-14 in bench points.
 
HIGH POINT, N.C. – The High Point University women's basketball team fell to Charleston Southern, 61-65, Thursday (March 14) in the quarterfinals of the Big South Tournament.
 
High Point (22-8, 15-3) dished out 14 assists and logged 10 steals, while Charleston Southern (14-17, 9-9) had 10 assists and seven steals. The Panthers shot 40.7 percent (24-59) from the field and 72.7 percent (8-11) from the free throw line.
 
Senior Shea Morgan led the HPU with 16 points and five rebounds. Senior Emma Bockrath logged a team-high five assists and five steals. She also added seven points and four rebounds. Junior Camryn Brown contributed 11 points, four assists and one rebound for the Panthers.
 
"It's heartbreaking in so many ways," HPU head coach DeUnna Hendrix said. "It's heartbreaking, it's devastating. But at the same time it's hard to play and get on a bus and drive four and a half hours and play us tonight and play tomorrow. I don't know I just think they came in super prepared and that's hard to do. I'm heartbroken for our seniors because that wasn't what we would have probably written. It's not how it looked to us."
 
The Purple & White had a 33-27 lead at halftime. High Point had eight assists and six steals at the break. Charleston Southern closed the third quarter with a 9-0 run to take a 43-41 lead over HPU lead into the fourth quarter. The game was tied at 59 with 1:34 left to play, when the Bucs hit a layup and two free throws to take a 63-61 lead. High Point responded with a layup from senior Bria Gibson, but was unable to cut into the lead any further.
 
The Panthers out-scored the Buccaneers 20-15 off turnovers and 22-14 off the bench.
 
Bockrath is now second on the High Point women's basketball Division I scoring list with 1,610 points on her career. She is also second in steals at 241, third in rebounds at 747, fourth in assists at 334 and third in field goals made at 608.
 
Shelby Wilbanks led Charleston Southern with 14 points and 14 rebounds.
 
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