THE RUNDOWN:
Opponent: vs. Lehigh Carbon Cougars
Score: Harford 117, at Lehigh Carbon 34
Records: Harford 1-0 | Lehigh Carbon 0-1
Location: Bel Air, Md. — APG Federal Credit Union Arena
The Short Story: The Harford women's basketball team opened their regular season schedule with a comfortable 117-34 victory over Lehigh Carbon.
Box Score: Click Here

HOW IT HAPPENED:

• Harford shot 59% from the floor as they dominated the game from start to finish. 
• Sophomore All-American Daisa Harris showed off her incredible skills as she scored 25 points on 11-14 shooting along with 6 assists in just 18 minutes of play. Her ability to pace the fast-break offense was always too much for the Cougars to handle. 
• Nichole Collins was also very impressive coming off the bench in her collegiate debut with 16 points, 6 assists, 8 steals, and 8 rebounds.
• Sophomore transfer Danielle Durjan also showed off some impressive athleticism with 12 points, 7 rebounds, 7 assists, and 4 steals.
• Other double digit point scorers were Dahnye Redd with 16 and Adrienne Jones with 14.
• Dominique Walker and Joy Morton scored 9 points each as they combined to shoot 7-8 from the floor.
• One of just three returning players from last year's team, Nazje Norton scored 7 points as well with 4 assists added on.
• Forwards Mylia Clarke and Therese Gilmore got the job done on the glass as they both collected 7 rebounds in helping Harford out-rebound the Cougars 52-22.

GAME NOTES:

• All 12 of the Fighting Owls players that saw time in the game scored.
• While Harford was not placed in the top 25 pre-season poll for NJCAA Division I, they did receive a number of votes and shouldn't be out of the rankings long if results like this one persists.
• The only blemish on the Fighting Owl's well played game was shooting just 11-22 from the free throw line.
• Harford scored 74 points in the paint with 54 of them coming from a fast-break compared to the Cougars who scored just 2 points in the paint and none on fast-break.
• Harford never trailed in the game going wire-to-wire after a basket within the first 40 seconds of the game. 
• Lehigh Carbon shot just 20% from the floor on 10-50 including 2-13 from three point range.

UP NEXT:

• The Fighting Owls get right back on the court on Thursday, November 3rd as they take on Brookdale in the APGFCU Arena for a 5 pm tip-off.
• This will be the season opener for Brookdale, although they did take part in the Essex jamboree scrimmage.