{"id":144112,"date":"2026-01-30T13:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T13:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/144112\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T13:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T13:54:09","slug":"uiw-rally-falls-short-in-loss-to-texas-am-corpus-christi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/144112\/","title":{"rendered":"UIW rally falls short in loss to Texas A&#038;M-Corpus Christi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jorja Elliott scored 24 points to help spark a late rally, but Incarnate Word ran out of gas down the final stretch, losing 70-64 to Texas A&amp;M-Corpus Christi on Thursday in Corpus Christi. <\/p>\n<p>Elliott hit 7 of 15 shots and grabbed eight rebounds, while Destiny Whitaker scored 16 points off the bench, knocking down four 3-pointers. But the Cardinals (10-9, 8-4 Southland) shot just 32.2% overall and 24% at the free-throw line, losing despite holding the Islanders to 38.9% shooting with 22 turnovers. Texas A&amp;M-Corpus Christi (4-15, 3-9) built a 47-32 margin in rebounding. <\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>UIW needed more than 6 minutes to score its first basket of the fourth quarter, allowing A&amp;M-Corpus Christi to lead 59-51 with four minutes remaining after a 14-1 run. Elliott scored nine points to fuel a 12-4 spurt as UIW tied the score with a minute to play, but the Islanders scored seven points at the free-throw line to seal the win. <\/p>\n<p>UIW led by as many as 11 points after opening the third quarter on a 21-5 run across about a six-minute stretch. <\/p>\n<p>This article originally published at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressnews.com\/sports\/article\/uiw-rally-falls-short-loss-texas-a-m-corpus-21323870.php?utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=yahoo_syndication\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:UIW rally falls short in loss to Texas A&amp;M-Corpus Christi;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">UIW rally falls short in loss to Texas A&amp;M-Corpus Christi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jorja Elliott scored 24 points to help spark a late rally, but Incarnate Word ran out of gas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156,47275,60404,1702],"class_list":["post-144112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news","tag-incarnate-word","tag-jorja-elliott","tag-uiw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144112","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=144112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}