8 Straight: Lady Bears win at Alice Lloyd

PIPPA PASSES, Ky. – The Pikeville College Lady Bears ran their season-opening win streak to eight games Tuesday night by knocking off longtime mountain rival Alice Lloyd College 63-50.

The Lady Bears have now gone 4-0 at home and 4-0 away from the Pikeville College Gym. They won two neutral-floor games in the High Five Classic in Williamsburg and have won at Rio Grande and now at Alice Lloyd.

Freshman Natiera Hinton led the team in scoring for the seventh time in eight games with 22 points. In addition, she had five rebounds, five steals and three assists in the win.

She was joined in double figures by senior Alice Daniel, who nailed two-of-three from the arc to score 12 points on only five field goal attempts.

Senior Krystal Daniels, who played her freshman season at Alice Lloyd before transferring to Pikeville, led her team with 11 rebounds as the Lady Bears won the battle of the boards 48-36. Freshman point guard Megan Mosley finished her first appearance at Pippa Passes with six points, four rebounds and four assists.

Alice Lloyd (4-2) was led by senior Camille Cook’s 12 points. Bre Frazier had nine points and seven rebounds in the loss.

Pikeville will be back in action on Saturday afternoon in the Pikeville College Gym, playing Union College at 2 p.m.