Onugha's second half performance powers Barton women's victory at Pratt #GoBarton

The Barton Community College women's basketball team scored Saturday afternoon's first eight points before pulling away for good in the final fourteen minutes picking up a 73-50 victory at Pratt Community College.

Victors of 18-of-the-last-19 in the series, Barton improves to 8-10 in conference play and 12-12 overall while Pratt suffers their 11th straight loss dropping to 1-16 in the KJCCC and 6-17 on the year.

A two-game festive homestand is ahead on the schedule beginning Wednesday hosting Seward County Community College for "Pink-Out Night" followed by Saturday's Hall of Fame Day welcoming 5th ranked Dodge City Community College. The Saints will be coming off the high of knocking off the Conquistadors today moving into sole possession of fifth place while Dodge City will be fighting to remain atop the Jayhawk standings. A 5:30 p.m. tip-off time slated for both contests.

Following the early Barton start, Pratt closed out the first quarter on a 7-0 run with an early second frame three-pointer slicing the margin to four. Pushing the lead back out on seven straight, the Cougars would take a nine point lead to the break but again the Beavers would paddle back in third period closing the gap to four again twice, the last coming with 6:11 remaining in the frame.

Having scored the first five points of the third quarter, Vivian Onugha continued her dominance adding eight more points and securing ten rebounds in the period growing Barton's lead back into double digits to lead 53-39.

A Pratt three-pointer opened up the final quarter's scoring but the Cougars responded owning the next eight minutes with a 21-3 stretch. The big run began on eight straight, Charolette Delisle's jumper tying her career high as Onugha tacked on the ensuing six points.

Onugha finished with 29 points and 23 rebounds, 23 of the points and 17 rebounds coming in second half play alone, recording her 14th straight and 20th double-double of the year.

The performance also moved Onugha alone in the 3rd slot of both program single season and career rebound bests, surpassing the efforts of Taylor Regan in now trailing only Jenny Nkem Womsi and leader Inga Muciniece.

Keyona Hall played solid in the starting role knocking down 5-of-8 from the field for 13 points with Delisle coming off the bench producing a new career high 12 points and 6 rebounds with 3 assists.

Brittany Simpson added 8 points behind a pair of treys as Regina Donanu fought through illness contributing 7 points and 4 rebounds.

Pratt was led by La'Kyra Johnson's 19 points followed by Kalani Brock's 11 points and team high 8 rebounds.