{"id":82466,"date":"2025-12-05T07:07:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T07:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/82466\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T07:07:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T07:07:08","slug":"saray-whites-layup-lifts-csun-over-bakersfield-in-big-west-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/82466\/","title":{"rendered":"Saray White\u2019s Layup Lifts CSUN Over Bakersfield in Big West Opener"},"content":{"rendered":"

BAKERSFIELD, Calif — The CSUN women’s basketball team (4-3, 1-0 Big West) was victorious against Cal State Bakersfield (2-6, 0-1 Big West), 59-57, after a late stage layup from Saray White<\/a> with five seconds left lifted the Matadors past the Roadrunners at the Icardo Center Thursday night. White led the team with 13 points, while Amya Moody<\/a> added 12 of her own while Rita Nazario added 11. White also contributed seven rebounds.
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\nHOW IT HAPPENED
\nIt was a defensive showcase in the first five minutes of the game, as nobody scored until the 5:25 mark of the first quarter, when Bakersfield’s Morgan Hawkins downed a layup to make it a 2-0 game. CSUN then went on a 9-2 run with Moody contributing five of those points. Bakersfield added two more points in the quarter as the defensive battle continued. Both teams didn’t shoot above 25% in the period, with CSUN holding the Roadrunners to 10.5% shooting. The Matadors ended the quarter with a 9-6 lead.
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\nIn the second quarter, the offense jumpstarted for each side. A free throw and a Kelly Tumlin<\/a> three-pointer gave CSUN a 10 point lead at 16-6 with seven minutes left to play in the half. Bakersfield then went on a 9-2 run to cut the Matador lead to three at 18-15 with 5:27 remaining. After back-and-forth buckets from each team, Morgan Edwards<\/a> drained a shot from distance at the 4:41 mark to make it 23-17.\u00a0
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\nThe Roadrunners then went on a 7-0 run to take the lead with 46 seconds left in the half with a Hawkins layup to make it 24-23. CSUN was able to add one more point after buckets from both sides as the score was tied at 27 heading into the locker room.
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\nSECOND HALF
\nTumlin hit a shot from distance to give CSUN the early three-point to kick off the half as the scoreboard now read 30-27. Hawkins then scored her 10th and 11th points of the game with a driving layup to cut the lead to one with 8:49 left to play in the third. CSUN followed with a Nazario shot from behind the arc to make it a four-point game at 33-29. Both teams then held their ground as the Matadors held on to a three-point lead with no real runs from either side heading into the fourth. It was a 42-39 Matador lead going into the final 10 minutes of play.
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\nIn the final quarter, Bakersfield began the period on a mini 4-0 run to take the lead at the 9:06 mark with a couple free-throws from Crishawn Coleman. CSUN then followed with a 6-2 run capped off by two Morgan Edwards<\/a> freethrows to make it a 48-45 game with 5:57 left to play. A Saray White<\/a> layup bumped the lead up to six with 4:02 left, CSUN’s largest lead since the second quarter.\u00a0
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\nBakersfield scratched and clawed their way to a 10-4 run to tie the game up at 57 a piece with 25 seconds left to play via a Coleman three-pointer. Down to their last possession with overtime looming over, White drove in the lane for a layup with five seconds left to seal the win for the Matadors.
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\nNOTES OF THE GAME<\/p>\n


\n\tCSUN is 1-0 in Big West play for the first time since the 2022-23 season. CSUN is 4-3 overall.
\n\tJite Gbemuotor<\/a> and Marina Cos-Morales each registered two blocks.
\n\tCSUN forced 16 turnovers.
\n\tBakersfield only shot 23.5% from distance.
\n\tColeman led the game in scoring with 21 points.
\n\tNazario led the team with three long range buckets as she went 50% from three.
\n\tAll but two Matadors found the scoring column in the win. <\/p>\n

ACCORDING TO HEAD COACH ANGIE NED
\n[On the final play from Saray White<\/a>] “I have a lot of confidence in Saray and she does a great job finishing plays. [Overall] We were active and executed scout defense with intensity and grit. Tonight was a great win. We are seeing the team evolve and improve.”
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\nUP NEXT
\nCSUN hosts UC Irvine at Premier America Credit Union Arena, Saturday at 2:00 p.m. Jill Painter-Lopez and Graham Metzker will be on the call as the game will be livestreamed on ESPN+.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif — The CSUN women’s basketball team (4-3, 1-0 Big West) was victorious against Cal State Bakersfield…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-82466","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-bakersfield","9":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","10":"tag-bakersfield-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}