TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – The Wildcats wasted no time in establishing themselves in a big way Monday evening. After an opening home bucket, Fort Valley State blitzed Talladega College with the next 20 points and added an 11-0 second-quarter spurt for good measure to breeze home for a 67-47 women's basketball victory.

Following the first two home points seven seconds into the contest, it was a FVSU team effort to register the 20-point game-deciding run. Taylor Addison pumped in a pair of 3-pointers, Aaniyah Allen downed her own trey and five points total, Shekinah Rachel contributed four tallies and Ayana Cockrell had three. After a 24-6 first-quarter score. Rachel guided the second run with six of the 11 unanswered tallies to expand the lead to 36-14 with 2:49 left in the opening half. Talladega did win the third period, 14-10, but it could not make a real dent in the comfortable FVSU advantage.

Rachel registered her fifth overall and second double-double in a row of 24 points on 5 of 11 shooting and 14 of 18 from the foul line to go with 10 rebounds. The senior forward also had five steals, two assists and a blocked shot. Allen made 4 of 7 of her shot attempts and all five from the charity stripe for 14 points along with four steals and two assists.

Cockrell finished with nine points, six boards and five steals. Camryn Oneill had six points, six steals and four rebounds while Addison downed the two early triples for six points.

Arieonna Booker paced the Tornadoes with 19 points.

FVSU returns to action on Saturday afternoon, Jan. 13, in the first home game of the spring semester against SIAC East rival Savannah State. Tip-off is 1 p.m. in the HPE Arena.

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