{"id":102968,"date":"2026-01-02T06:08:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T06:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/102968\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T06:08:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T06:08:06","slug":"eastern-florida-state-college-womens-basketball-team-continues-on-in-citrus-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/102968\/","title":{"rendered":"Eastern Florida State College Women’s Basketball Team Continues on in Citrus Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTitans return to Citrus Conference play on Saturday\"\"<\/a>The Eastern Florida State College<\/a> women\u2019s basketball team stormed back to pick up a win in the first game of the Lady Jets Holiday Classic in Georgia on Monday. (EFSC image)<\/p>\n

BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA \u2013 The Eastern Florida State College<\/a> women\u2019s basketball team stormed back to pick up a win in the first game of the Lady Jets Holiday Classic in Georgia on Monday.<\/p>\n

Alayna Lherisse hit a 3-pointer in the final seconds to tie the game 64-64 and the Titans would defeat Cleveland Community College 77-69 in overtime.<\/p>\n

The Titans were down 46-28 when Bruna DaSilva would score seven straight points as the Titans would finish the third quarter on a 16-5 run.<\/p>\n

Eastern Florida State College would continue to cut into the lead as Grace Strickland and DaSilva each hit 3-pointers to cut the lead to one point, 62-61. After a couple of free throws, the Titans had one last chance. As the clock was winding down, Lherisse took a pass from Strickland, turned and hit the 3-pointer to tie the game. It was her only basket of the game.<\/p>\n

In overtime DaSilva hit another 3-pointer to give Eastern Florida State College their first lead since the first quarter. Angela Mirkovic made a couple of big baskets to give the Titans a five-point lead and they went on to post the victory.<\/p>\n

DaSilva finished with a career-high 31 points while Strickland had a season-high 15 points and Shadia Lara Santacruz finished with 12.<\/p>\n

Eastern Florida State College, who is now 5-7 on the season, fell to host South Georgia Tech on Tuesday and No. 11 Shelton State on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Eastern Florida State College will return to Citrus Conference play on Saturday afternoon, traveling to Daytona State College for a 2 p.m. game against the 24th ranked Falcons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Titans return to Citrus Conference play on SaturdayThe Eastern Florida State College women\u2019s basketball team stormed back to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3108,33705,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-102968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-basketball","tag-eastern-florida-state-college","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}