ETAM Overcomes Ladyjacks Late on Thursday Night

Thursday, February 5

Nacogdoches, TX

6:30 p.m.

Stephen F. Austin

15-8,9-5Southland

East Texas A&M University

10-10,6-7Southland

East Texas A&M

SFA

ETAM Overcomes Ladyjacks Late on Thursday Night

2/5/2026 8:46:00 PM | Women's Basketball

Box Score

Traylor-Walker’s Double-Double, Kemp’s Steal & Score, Dominguez’s free throws late not enough for Ladyjacks

NACOGDOCHES, Texas – Ashlyn Traylor-Walker delivered a double-double, Kaylinn Kemp recorded a late steal and score and Harmanie Dominguez notched a pair of free throws in the waning seconds, but East Texas A&M used the tenth bucket of a 23-point night from Tiani Ellison with three seconds left to overcome the Ladyjacks 65-64 on Thursday night inside William R. Johnson Coliseum.

Traylor-Walker scored 23 points and added 11 rebounds in nearly 30 minutes off the bench. Kemp added a dozen points with her final basket coming with 35 seconds left to give SFA a 62-61 lead. Dominguez connected on her only two attempts of the game from the stripe with less than ten seconds to play, but the Lions worked inside to Ellison who finished a tough look for the winning shot.

SFA led 54-43 after three quarters of play highlighted by a 12-2 run in the frame and led by seven points with just over four minutes left in the final stanza but the Lions engineered a 22-10 fourth quarter effort to steal a victory. East Texas A&M finished +17 in points off turnovers and delivered 42 points in the paint.

The Ladyjacks employed a stingy effort defending the perimeter forcing the Lions into an 0-for-6 effort from range in addition to a shooting clip of just 29% in the opening ten minutes of action. East Texas A&M trailed by just a bucket at the first quarter break and cut the deficit to a single point just prior to the 8-minute mark of the second quarter.

Dominguez hit a triple try to put SFA up 21-17 and SFA built a seven-point lead with the media stoppage looming as Traylor-Walker scored inside for the Ladyjacks' largest lead of the first half. ETAM cut the deficit to a single point twice after the under-5 media and took the lead with under a minute to play before Cha Gardner scored inside in the final ten seconds of the half to push the Ladyjacks back out front 35-34 at the intermission.

SFA knocked down half of its eight attempts from deep in the first half and held ETAM, which outscored SFA 21-20 in the second quarter, to just one make from range in nine attempts. The squads battled with 19 rebounds each with the Lions taking advantage of fastbreak opportunities (8 pts) and churning out 22 paint points (+6) in the first twenty minutes to trail by a single point.

POSTGAME NOTES

SFA led for over 31 and a half minutes of action
The contest featured 13 lead changes and three tied scores
ETAM outscored the Ladyjacks a combined 43-30 in the second and fourth quarters
Traylor-Walker finished 8-of-15 from the floor with four makes from range
Dominguez added eight rebounds
Kemp went for 12-6-4 with two steals
Aziyah Frazier delivered five blocked shots for the third time this season

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