BATON ROUGE — LSU’s 18th-ranked Lady Tigers basketball team had three players score in double figures and all 10 players reach the scoring column in an 86-48 victory over Louisiana-Monroe on Saturday in the Pete Maravich Assembly Center.
Sophomore Scholanda Hoston led the way for LSU (4-2) with a career-high 23 points in 24 minutes, including 15 in the first half on six of seven shooting. She was followed by Seimone Augustus with 16 points and Doneeka Hodges with 12. Temeka Johnson added a solid game with nine points, a team-high nine rebounds and eight assists.
Renata Dorsey led ULM (2-4) with 10 points off the bench.
LSU jumped out to any early 8-0 lead and did not look back, taking as much as a 19-point lead in the first 20 minutes. The Lady Tigers build up a 20-point lead early in the second half and used a 15-2 run midway through the second half establish the game’s largest lead of the game at 40 points.
The Lady Tigers did have 23 turnovers in the game, but shot 58.2 percent from the floor and out-rebounded ULM 52-27 for the game.
“There were some bright spots for us,” said LSU head coach Sue Gunter. “I though we did a nice job on the boards, but we just we not sharp and we not fluid. We have been off for ten days so I am not trying to come down hard, I just expected more out of them tonight.”
LSU had not played since a 78-68 victory over No. 22 Rutgers on Dec. 2 in the Maravich Center.
The Lady Tigers did hold ULM to 29.2 percent shooting from the floor and forced 19 turnovers.
Hanna Bienacka’s career-high nine rebounds for LSU helped the rebounding edge as did Treynell Clavelle’s eight off the bench. Augustus added eight boards as well.
LSU will host Sam Houston State on Monday at 7 p.m. in the Maravich Center as it continues its home stand before the holiday break.