BOONE, N.C. – Emily Carver scored a season-high 18 points, including the 1,000th of her App State career, but the Mountaineers fell short 73-61 to Richmond on Sunday.
A fourth-year senior guard from Asheville, N.C., Carver reached 1,000 on one of her patented 3-pointers early in the fourth quarter. She is the 29th member of the program's 1,000-point club.
Fellow guard
Mara Neira tied a season high with 16 points, and
Rylan Moffitt added nine points and 10 rebounds off the bench.
App State (2-3) started fast against a Richmond squad that was receiving votes in the AP Top 25 Poll, jumping out to an early 22-13 lead before seeing the Spiders (6-0) chip away at it throughout the second quarter en route to a 30-30 halftime score. The hot-shooting Mountaineer run was buoyed by a pair of 3-pointers from
Elena Pericic and one each from Carver and Neira.
Head coach
Alaura Sharp's Mountaineers achieved balanced scoring in the first half with six players scoring at least four points, led by Carver's seven and Pericic's six. App State drained four 3-pointers while shooting 33% from beyond the arc in the first two quarters.
Richmond used a 22-10 third quarter advantage as the determining factor in the day's result.
App State cut the deficit to as few as 10 points at 71-61 with 23 seconds left after Neira drained her game-high fourth triple of the day.
Maggie Doogan led the Spiders with 23 points and nine rebounds.
Utilizing its size advantage, Richmond enjoyed a 40-18 edge in points in the paint, but App State did win the rebounding battle, 43-37. The Mountaineers made nine 3-pointers to the Spiders' four, but Richmond went 21-for-31 from the free-throw line while App State was 8-of-14.
Up Next
App State will cap a three-game homestand when it welcomes Gardner-Webb to the Holmes Convocation Center on Wednesday (6:30 p.m. on ESPN+). That precedes four straight road games from Dec. 1-21 at Vanderbilt, Wofford, College of Charleston and Mercer.
