Bolden, Isaac Lead No. 6 Bethune-Cookman Over No. 11 Norfolk State, 76-66 Sahar Abdur-Rashid 03/09/10 WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - Sarah Bolden scored a game-high 21 points off the bench, while teammate Jalisa Isaac added 17 points as No. 6 Bethune-Cookman defeated No. 11 Norfolk State in the opening round of the 2010 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Tournament on Tuesday afternoon at the Joel Coliseum. The Lady Wildcats advance to the quarterfinal round and will face No. 3 Morgan State at noon on Thursday. The game was a close one from beginning to end. B-CU (16-14) scored the first four points of the game on a layup and two free throws by Jasmine Daniels. NSU (4-23) took a one-point lead, 9-8, on a basket by Batavia Owens with 16:19 left in the first half. The Spartans increased their lead to five, 15-10, after a layup by Raychele Payne at the 14:58 mark. A pair of free throws by Demetria Frank with 2:58 left in the opening period put B-CU up by two, 35-33, and the Lady Wildcats outscored the Spartans 7-0 the rest of the way to take a 42-33 lead into halftime. The Spartans went on a 7-0 run to start the second half to get within two, 42-40, after a layup by Whitney Long with 16:01 left in the game. But back-to-back 3-pointers by the Lady Wildcats opened up a seven-point lead. The closest NSU could get after that was four, 62-58, after a jumper by Genor Dalton with 4:35 left. B-CU led by 12 in the final moments, but Marian Brooks scored a layup with nine seconds left to cut the final deficit to 10. For B-CU, Daniels had 14 points, a game-high eight assists and was a perfect 10-of-10 from the free-throw line. Demetria Frank also scored in double figures with 10 points. Payne and Brooks each had 16 points for NSU. Brooks, who notched her career-high in points, added eight rebounds and was 8-of-10 from the charity stripe. When asked about her team's effort in the game, head coach Debra Clark said, "We gave a good fight. Our girls gave all they had, but they just ran out of gas at the end of the game." WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - Sarah Bolden scored a game-high 21 points off the bench, while teammate Jalisa Isaac added 17 points as No. 6 Bethune-Cookman defeated No. 11 Norfolk State in the opening round of the 2010 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Tournament on Tuesday afternoon at the Joel Coliseum. The Lady Wildcats advance to the quarterfinal round and will face No. 3 Morgan State at noon on Thursday. The game was a close one from beginning to end. B-CU (16-14) scored the first four points of the game on a layup and two free throws by Jasmine Daniels. NSU (4-23) took a one-point lead, 9-8, on a basket by Batavia Owens with 16:19 left in the first half. The Spartans increased their lead to five, 15-10, after a layup by Raychele Payne at the 14:58 mark. A pair of free throws by Demetria Frank with 2:58 left in the opening period put B-CU up by two, 35-33, and the Lady Wildcats outscored the Spartans 7-0 the rest of the way to take a 42-33 lead into halftime. The Spartans went on a 7-0 run to start the second half to get within two, 42-40, after a layup by Whitney Long with 16:01 left in the game. But back-to-back 3-pointers by the Lady Wildcats opened up a seven-point lead. The closest NSU could get after that was four, 62-58, after a jumper by Genor Dalton with 4:35 left. B-CU led by 12 in the final moments, but Marian Brooks scored a layup with nine seconds left to cut the final deficit to 10. For B-CU, Daniels had 14 points, a game-high eight assists and was a perfect 10-of-10 from the free-throw line. Demetria Frank also scored in double figures with 10 points. Payne and Brooks each had 16 points for NSU. Brooks, who notched her career-high in points, added eight rebounds and was 8-of-10 from the charity stripe. When asked about her team's effort in the game, head coach Debra Clark said, "We gave a good fight. Our girls gave all they had, but they just ran out of gas at the end of the game."