El Paso, TX (WSET\/Liberty Flames) \u2014 Liberty raced out to a 15-2 advantage to begin Sunday\u2019s matinee at UTEP and never looked back. The Lady Flames posted an impressive 86-66 victory at the Don Haskins Center, setting season highs for points, three-pointers (12) and assists (22).<\/p>\n
Liberty is now 8-5 overall and has opened CUSA play at 2-0 for the first time in its three seasons of conference membership. The Lady Flames never trailed, led by the backcourt duo of Avery Mills (22 points, career-high six triples) and Claudia Acin (career-high 20 points, game-high seven assists).<\/p>\n
UTEP, which entered with the best overall record among CUSA teams, drops to 9-4 overall and 1-1 in conference action. The Miners lost for just the second time in 10 home games this season and fall to 0-5 all-time against the Lady Flames. Center Ndack Mbengue, who had scored 26 points during a Friday win over Delaware, was held without a field goal, and the Miners\u2019 18 turnovers turned into 17 Liberty points.<\/p>\n
Liberty will prepare for its CUSA home opener, Thursday vs. Sam Houston (8-4, 1-0 CUSA). Tipoff has been moved up two hours to 5 p.m. at Liberty Arena, and the game will air on ESPN+.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"El Paso, TX (WSET\/Liberty Flames) \u2014 Liberty raced out to a 15-2 advantage to begin Sunday\u2019s matinee at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":{"0":"post-110784","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-el-paso","8":"tag-el-paso","9":"tag-el-paso-headlines","10":"tag-el-paso-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}