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MARTINSVILLE, Va. – Kateri Owens scored a game-high 24 points while teammate Tareka Ceasar added 16 points and six steals to help the Patrick Henry Community College women's basketball team to a 100-41 win over Baltimore City Community College on the opening day of the Comfort Inn Patrick Henry CC Tip-Off Tournament.

The game got off to a slow start with neither team scoring in the first three minutes of play. A layup by Noel Bullock with 16:39 left in the first half to put PHCC up 2-0. BCCC (0-3) got on the board 26 seconds later when Sarah Hunt-FoFana (Bronx, N.Y., John F. Kennedy HS) hit a jumper to tie the game at 2-all.

A bucket by Kendra Powell with 15:58 left broke the tie and gave PHCC a lead it would hang on to for the rest of the game. The closest the Lady Panthers would get would be 12-11 after a 3-pointer by Keyontay Dunaway (Baltimore, Md.) with 13:35 left in the opening period.

PHCC went into halftime up 40-21.
 
The Lady Patriots went on a 48-10 run to start the second half. A layup by Tarshara Van Alstyne with 5:39 left in the game ended the run. Aissata Dicko (Bamako, Mali, Ecovie HS) scored six of the Lady Panthers' 10 points in the last 4:54 of the game, but it was not enough to overcome PHCC's large lead.

Powell had 12 points, nine rebounds and three steals for the Lady Patriots.

Hunt-Fofana tallied a career-high 19 points and had three boards, three steals and three assists in 39 minutes. Dunaway had seven points and four rebounds, while Dicko and Daryl Faulkner (Baltimore, Md., Edmondon HS) had six points apiece.

The Lady Panthers take on Tidewater Community College at 12 p.m. on Sunday in the last day of the PHCC Tournament.