Feb 03, 2021

Emporia State gets off to hot start, beats Missouri Western Tuesday

Posted Feb 03, 2021 12:30 PM

St. Joseph Post

The Missouri Western women's basketball team lost to Emporia State Tuesday night inside the MWSU Fieldhouse, 79-61, dropping their season record to 3-9.

Emporia got off to a 9-0 start less than two minutes in, and never looked back. The Hornets extended the lead to as many as 24 and led 45-26 at halftime.

The Hornet lead grew to as many as 28 points early in the fourth quarter, but Missouri Western closed the game strong as they outscored ESU 24-14 the rest of the way. The Griffs were led by sophomore Kameron Freemyer as she scored 11 of those points in the final period. Freemyer scored a career-high 13 points and tied a career-high with five rebounds.

MWSU's Mychaell Gray added eight points and a career-high six rebounds, while Simone Rodney had a big night off the bench. Rodney scored seven points, had a career-high eight assists, a career-high four steals and tied a career-high with five rebounds.

The Griffons will be off until Saturday when they travel to Maryville to play Northwest Missouri State at 1:30 p.m. inside Bearcat Arena.

Northwest won the first game, 51-50, on December 12 in St. Joseph.