{"id":115530,"date":"2026-01-28T20:50:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T20:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/115530\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T20:50:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T20:50:28","slug":"womens-basketball-begins-road-swing-with-trips-to-queens-and-west-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/115530\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s basketball begins road swing with trips to Queens and West Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                     LOUISVILLE, Ky. \u2014\u00a0The first half of a four-game road swing will unfold this week for the Bellarmine University women&#8217;s basketball team, as the Knights will travel to Queens for a 7 p.m. (ET) contest Thursday before heading to West Georgia for a 2 p.m. matchup Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>ABOUT QUEENS<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nQueens (7-12, 1-7 ASUN) opened conference play with a 58-46 road win over injury-riddled Bellarmine on Jan. 1. The Royals have since dropped seven straight games, including 63-60 at North Alabama and 77-64 at West Georgia in last week&#8217;s action. Guard Ana Barreto (10.4 ppg) is coming off a 21-point performance against the Wolves and ranks fourth in the ASUN in total 3-pointers made (44). Guard Jermany Mapp (10.2 ppg) has scored in double figures in five straight games.<\/p>\n<p>ABOUT WEST GEORGIA<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nWest Georgia has been the surprise of the ASUN. Picked to finish 10th in the ASUN preseason coaches&#8217; poll, the Wolves (13-6, 6-2) are currently in second place in the league. Before meeting Bellarmine, UWG will have a crucial showdown Thursday with conference leader Eastern Kentucky, which is undefeated in ASUN play (8-0). Last week, the Wolves dropped an 87-66 contest at Central Arkansas but regrouped for a 77-64 home win over Queens. West Georgia boasts the second-highest scoring offense in the league (73.7) along with the top field-goal percentage (44.0) and 3-point percentage (35.1). The Wolves unleash a three-pronged scoring terror in forward Jasmine Jones (15.2 ppg), guard Asia Donald (14.5 ppg) and guard Sydne Tolbert (14.1 ppg), who are three of the conference&#8217;s top seven scoring leaders. UWG defeated Bellarmine 106-65 in this season&#8217;s first matchup Jan. 3 in Louisville.<\/p>\n<p>KNIGHTS NOTES<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2022 Sophomore forward <a href=\"https:\/\/athletics.bellarmine.edu\/sports\/womens-basketball\/roster\/kayce-hyman\/9501\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9501\" target=\"_blank\">Kayce Hyman<\/a> registered a team-high 14 points in the first matchup against Queens. She followed with 16 against West Georgia.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2022 The Knights&#8217; four-game road swing will follow at FGCU (Feb. 5) and Stetson (Feb. 7).<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2022 This four-game road stretch is the second longest of the season for Bellarmine, which had a five-game road cluster Nov. 30-Dec. 21 that included contests against high majors Louisville, Illinois, Arizona and Notre Dame.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2022 Bellarmine just concluded a season-long four-game homestand. The Knights last week suffered losses of 81-58 to North Florida and 73-49 to Jacksonville.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2022 Due to an epidemic of injuries, Bellarmine has competed with 6-8 players in each of the last 16 games. On Saturday versus Jacksonville, the Knights had four players available from the original 2025-26 roster. BU competed with six players, as freshman guards <a href=\"https:\/\/athletics.bellarmine.edu\/sports\/womens-basketball\/roster\/olivia-pifer\/10162\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10162\" target=\"_blank\">Olivia Pifer<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/athletics.bellarmine.edu\/sports\/womens-basketball\/roster\/mariah-daniels\/10185\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10185\" target=\"_blank\">Mariah Daniels<\/a> joined the team this month as walk-ons.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2022 Bellarmine added four more walk-ons leading into this week&#8217;s games in guards <a href=\"https:\/\/athletics.bellarmine.edu\/sports\/womens-basketball\/roster\/megan-wearsch\/10189\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10189\" target=\"_blank\">Megan Wearsch<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/athletics.bellarmine.edu\/sports\/womens-basketball\/roster\/carly-bryant\/10187\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10187\" target=\"_blank\">Carly Bryant<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/athletics.bellarmine.edu\/sports\/womens-basketball\/roster\/maddie-janszen\/10188\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10188\" target=\"_blank\">Maddie Janszen<\/a>, and forward <a href=\"https:\/\/athletics.bellarmine.edu\/sports\/womens-basketball\/roster\/clare-slocum\/10190\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10190\" target=\"_blank\">Clare Slocum<\/a>.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2022 Hyman is averaging a team-high 13.1 points per game in ASUN play. She posted 18 and 15 points, respectively, against UNF and Jacksonville. Hyman has tallied 14 points or more in five conference games.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2022 Hyman has earned a high rate of trips to the FT line as of late. In the last three games, she&#8217;s piled up 28 attempts from the charity stripe and hit 24 of them (85.7). She was 7-of-7 from the FT line against EKU, 10-for-13 versus UNF and 7-of-8 against Jacksonville.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/athletics.bellarmine.edu\/sports\/womens-basketball\/roster\/andrea-chiquemba\/9801\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9801\" target=\"_blank\">Andrea Chiquemba<\/a> was two points shy equaling her career high after totaling 15 against Jacksonville. The redshirt junior forward added 12 points against UNF. Those are her two highest-scoring efforts in ASUN play. She drilled a combined seven 3-pointers in the two games.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2022 Senior forward <a href=\"https:\/\/athletics.bellarmine.edu\/sports\/womens-basketball\/roster\/patricia-sherrill\/9913\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9913\" target=\"_blank\">Patricia Sherrill<\/a> tied a career high with 11 points against Jacksonville.<\/p>\n<p>For more coverage of Bellarmine athletics, follow us on Twitter (@BUKnights), Instagram (BUKnights) and Facebook (BUKnights).<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; LOUISVILLE, Ky. \u2014\u00a0The first half of a four-game road swing will unfold this week&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":{"0":"post-115530","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-queens","12":"tag-queens-headlines","13":"tag-queens-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}