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SPARTANBURG, S.C. – The Wofford Terriers women’s basketball team improved to 4-0 with a 60-40 win Wednesday afternoon in the Benjamin Johnson Arena over Bluefield College and pulled within one win of tying the program’s all-time best start to a season.
The Terriers remain the only team in the Southern Conference without a loss at 4-0. This is also the first time the Terriers have been 4-0 since they started the 2001-02 season at 5-0. The 2001-02 team shares the Wofford school record with the 1992-93 team for best start in Wofford school history.
The two teams traded points over the first ten minutes of play as the game saw five ties and six lead changes until Wofford turned a 17-15 lead into a 26-15 lead with a 9-0 run over an eight minute stretch in the second half. Wofford carried the 11-point lead into the locker rooms at the half, 28-17.
Morgan Wrightson had ten of her 13 points in the opening 20 minutes of play, as she was 3-for-4 from the floor and 2-of-2 from three with two free throws.
The Terriers opened the second half with a 10-5 run to take a 41-22 lead with 15:30 to play. Wofford’s lead hit 21 points, 47-26, at the ten-minute mark and went as high as 25 points, 56-31, with five minutes to play. The Rams closed the gap to 20 points, as the Terriers took the 60-40 win to improve to 4-0 on the season.
April Moorhouse scored 12 of her team-high 14 points in the second half.
Wofford shot 37 percent from the floor, 27 percent from three and 64 percent from the free throw line, while Bluefield was 25 percent overall, eight percent from three-point range, and 47 percent from the charity stripe.
Moorhouse’s 14 points paced the Terriers, as she was 7-for-11 from the floor, while Wrightson followed with her 13 points. Rachel Brittenham chipped in ten points and game-high six assists. Daniella Motley collected eight boards for the Terriers. All nine Terriers scored at least two points in the game for the second time this season.
Wofford takes the Thanksgiving holiday weekend off and returns to action on November 29 at 7 p.m. in the Benjamin Johnson Arena against Southern Virginia at 6 p.m. The game is the final game in their current four-game home stand.
