Illiana Luna 
On this week’s sports highlights, women’s basketball faced University of North Texas, Wednesday March 20th in Denton Dallas. Girls Megan Johnson and Madison Northcutt scored 27 points total and took a 5-2 lead after a three-pointer by Johnson in the first quarter.
Next, junior Makaela Mosley made a jumper that gave UTRGV the 7-6 lead but was later closed out by UNT taking the 20-10 lead. UNT also moving forward with a layup by Charlene Shepherd in the second quarter and answering back with a three-pointer is UTRGV’s Megan Johnson.
The score now 31-24 with UNT in the lead at halftime. UTRGV’s Idil Turk pushed the score to 26 with a jumper but UNT pushed their score lead to now 40 with five minutes left in the quarter. Our girls score again with an 8-0 run and a three-pointer that got them to 40-34 but it was UNT making the final five points, 55-40.
Next up, women’s tennis recovers with a win against Seattle-U this past Sunday after losing to New Mexico State on Saturday with a 3-4 match.
The girls heated up the court with doubles by seniors Marine Darzyan and Dominique Ibarra with a 6-0 win on court one and seniors Michelle Walker and Doris Aleksovska also won a 6-0 match against Seattle-U.
Freshmen’s Sandra Putz and Katrina Sasaroga closed out their match in doubles with a 6-2 win.
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