It was a battle between Middle and East Tennessee in Women’s Basketball Tuesday night, as the Blue Raiders from Middle Tennessee State traveled to Knoxville to take on the Tennessee Lady Volunteers. The Blue Raiders were trying to go back to back years in defeating UT after their upset agsint the Lady Vols last year at a neutral site game. However with a new team comes new results, Tennessee gets past a stingy MTSU defense to defeat the Blue Raiders 89-75.
Talaysia Cooper was the top scorer for the Lady Vols Tuesday scoring 18 points Samara Spencer, Tess Darby, and Sara Puckett were top scorers as well scoring 17, 14, and 13 points respectively. Courtney Blakely was the Blue Raiders leading scorer with 25 points. Russian native Anastasia Boldyreva was the second leading scorer for MTSU with 18 points.
The Lady Vols improve to 3-0 this season and will be back in action Saturday after noon as they host the Liberty Flames at 11:00 AM.