HARDY TIES CIAA TOURNAMENT RECORD

 

 

RALEIGH, NC- With her 50-point performance in Monday night’s victory over Saint Augustine’s College, Bowie State University’s Allyson Hardy tied the single game scoring record that had stood for 27 years.

 

 Norfolk State’s Vivian Greene originally accomplished the feat on February 18, 1977 in the semi-finals of the 1977 Tournament against Shaw University. The Spartans would go on to capture their second CIAA Championship over Winston-Salem State University, 70-58.

 

Hardy, a junior guard from Germantown, MD, has made quite an impact in her three years in the CIAA. In 2002, she was named CIAA Rookie of the Year and the following year she garnered the honor of 2003 CIAA Player of the Year. She finished this season as the league’s leading scorer at 21.3 ppg. During the 2003-2004 campaign, Hardy was named CIAA Player of the Week three times consecutively and was subsequently voted to the 2004 All-CIAA team.

 

Now with a 50-point game under her belt, and a scoring average of 22.4, Hardy and the Lady Bulldogs will face the No.1 seeded Lady Broncos of Fayetteville State University tonight at 7:00.

 

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