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Women's Basketball Jeff Cluff, Coordinator of Internal Operations/Media Relations

Brown Collects 5th Double-Double in 88-67 Win Over William Penn

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SAINT GEORGE, UT-December 19, 2010-Johnna Brown (Las Vegas, NV/Centennial ) scored a team-high 22 points and grabbed 15 rebounds in collecting her fifth double double of season in a Dixie State College 88-67 victory over NAIA William Penn University (IA) in the championship game of the DSC Holiday Tournament.

Johnna Brown
Brown, who missed yesterday's game with flu like symptoms, returned with a vengeance. Leading 59-57 with 10:27 remaining, Brown scored 18 of her 22 points in the second half and led a Red Storm 29-10 game-ending run to pull out the victory over the Statesmen (10-5 overall, 2-0 MCC) .

In the first half, the Dixie State (10-1 overall, 0-0 PWC) offense went thru Erica Carlson (Tucson, AZ/Canyon del Oro HS) (17 points, 8 rebounds, 6 blocks) and Shanae Vaifanua (Hurricane, UT/Hurricane) (15 points, 4 rebounds, 4 steals). Dixie State led by as many as 11 points before a 15-6 William Penn run allowed them back in the game.

Christa Shubbert helped the Statesmen by scoring a game-high 30 points and Orielle Thomas chipped in 19 points giving the Red Storm an early scare.

Committing a season low 11 turnovers, Dixie State took advantage of their size and pounded the ball down low. The Red Storm scored 54 points in the paint and won the rebounding advantage 50-36. DSC converted 15 offensive boards into 15 2nd chance points. Clearly making the difference in the game.

Breann Hill (Harrisburg, PA/McDevitt) who only played one minute on Friday night, scored 13 points and grabbed seven boards. She was a game time decision because of her broken middle finger on her left hand.

Dixie State shot 49.3 percent from the field, but once again connected on only one three-pointer in the game on 12 tries. The Red Storm shot 21 of 26 from the charity stripe for an 80.8 percent.

Dixie State will take its mandatory Christmas break from now until Dec 26th. They will return from their break and begin practice preparing for a showdown with PacWest opponent Grand Canyon University. The Antelopes are ranked 19th in the most recent NCAA poll and are 11-1 on the year. They have one more warm-up on Dec 31st against Texas A&M International before they square off with the Red Storm on the night of January 8th.

DOANE COLLEGE 95 COLLEGE OF SAINT MARY (NE) 65- In the game earlier today, Doane College shot 51.4 percent from the floor and connected on nine three pointers earning the win over the College of Saint Mary.

Doane had four players in double figures. Cheryl Braithwaite scored 25 points, Madara Upeniece scored 17 points and Ashley Daily and Nicole Starns each added 11 points.

College of Saint Mary had Olivia Grigg score a game high 27 points in the loss.

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