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For Immediate Release<\/p>\n
CONWAY, AR \u2014 The No. 2 seed Texas Lutheran women\u2019s basketball team fell to No. 1\u00a0seed Austin\u00a0College, 53-43, Saturday night in the 2026\u00a0SCAC\u00a0Tournament Semifinals in Grove Gymnasium in Conway, Arkansas. Texas Lutheran fell to 19-8 as their bid to repeat as SCAC Champions came to an end.<\/p>\n
Davi\u2019Yanna Jones (San Antonio\/Stevens) and Lauren Sansano (San Antonio\/FEAST) were the only Bulldogs in double figures on Saturday as Jones led the Bulldogs with 11 points while Sansano finished with ten points in her final collegiate game. led the Bulldogs as the only Bulldog in double figures with 16 points and added four rebounds. Seniors Hannah Gallegos (San Antonio\/Harlan) and Sarahi Jones (Los Fresnos\/Los Fresnos) finished with seven and six points respectively with Jones grabbing a team-high ten rebounds. With the ten rebounds, Jones passed former teammate Kailee Mulkey to finish her career third all-time in the program\u2019s NCAA history with 578 rebounds in her career.\u00a0Sansano\u00a0finishes her career with 1,175 points to finish seventh all-time in program history.
Texas Lutheran struggled in the first half, losing the battle on the glass and turning the ball over 13 times in the first half. Texas Lutheran would trail 32-17\u00a0entering halftime.<\/p>\n
The Bulldogs patented stifling defense showed up in the third quarter, limiting the \u2018Roos to four\u00a0points and just one\u00a0made field goal\u00a0in the third as the Bulldogs chipped away at the Austin College lead. Texas Lutheran trailed by as many as 19 points early in the quarter but would close the quarter on a 12-0 run to shrink the lead to seven entering the fourth.<\/p>\n
Texas Lutheran couldn\u2019t quite conjure the playoff magic from the night before as they would run out of gas and fall 53-43 to the \u2018Roos. TLU got the lead as low as four points early in the fourth but were never able to get it to a tie ball game.<\/p>\n
The Bulldogs\u00a0 \u2013 a team picked to finish first in the preseason poll \u2013 concludes the 2025-26\u00a0season with a 19-8\u00a0record, going 13-3 in the SCAC to claim second place in the Gold Division and finish second in the SCAC overall in the regular season. The Bulldogs will graduate five seniors who all played a role in the 2025\u00a0SCAC\u00a0Championship Tournament and NCAA Tournament runs\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Gallegos, Sansano, Sarahi Jones, Angelina Sotelo (San Marcos\/San Marcos), and Emerald St. Laurent (The Woodlands\/Oak Ridge).\u00a0We thank them for all of their contributions to the Texas Lutheran women\u2019s basketball program.<\/p>\n
Fans can receive updates by following @tluathletics\u00a0& @tluwbb\u00a0on X (Twitter) and catch up with the latest news and notes on the team by clicking\u00a0LIKE\u00a0on the TLU Athletics Facebook page at @tlubulldogs\u00a0or by visiting the team\u2019s Instagram page at @tluwbb\u00a0and as always follow TLU athletics on all of our social channels for updates on all things TLU Athletics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TLU Sports Information & Sports Marketing For Immediate Release CONWAY, AR \u2014 The No. 2 seed Texas Lutheran…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[12006,132,134,133,12003,12010,12009,2507,12015,12005,251,12013,12008,1831,2187,12012,9691,12004,12007,12011,12014,27,216],"class_list":{"0":"post-185943","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-am1580","9":"tag-austin","10":"tag-austin-headlines","11":"tag-austin-news","12":"tag-city-of-seguin","13":"tag-digital-media","14":"tag-digital-newspaper","15":"tag-guadalupe-county","16":"tag-it","17":"tag-kwed","18":"tag-local-news","19":"tag-news-radio","20":"tag-newspaper","21":"tag-podcast","22":"tag-radio","23":"tag-radio-news","24":"tag-seguin","25":"tag-seguin-daily-news","26":"tag-seguin-news","27":"tag-seguin-today","28":"tag-seguin-tx","29":"tag-texas","30":"tag-tx"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185943","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=185943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}