FARMVILLE, Va. – Presbyterian shot 50 percent from the field and received 20 points from Tilda Sjökvist in a 67-52 Big South Conference victory over the Longwood women's basketball team at the Joan Perry Brock Center on Saturday.
 
The Blue Hose connected on 25 of their 50 shots on the day, including going 12-for-23 in the opening 20 minutes, to improve to 15-13 overall and 6-7 in the league. Kiki McIntyre paced the Lancers with 12 points, adding two assists, as Longwood fell to 6-19 overall and 3-9 in conference play.
 
Presbyterian went 7-for-18 from 3-point range, draining six of those in the second half, to start to pull away.
 
"We were able to force some turnovers to kind of slow them down a little bit on the offensive end," Longwood head coach Erika Lang-Montgomery said of PC. "I wish we could've forced a few more, honestly, but … they really shoot the ball well.
 
"I thought we had done a great job in the first limiting their 3-pointers, but they really hurt us inside and so I don't know if we put too much emphasis on the threes and not taking away the paint touches, but they're a good ballclub."
 
Redshirt senior guard Adriana Shipp-Davis scored nine points to eclipse the 1,000-point mark for her career in the first quarter, becoming the 142nd player in the Big South to do so. Coupled with reaching 500 career rebounds last Saturday against Winthrop, Shipp-Davis is just the 80th player in league history to join the 1,000-point/500-rebound club.
 
"She's a player that really puts a lot of time in the gym putting up shots before [and] after practice and so it's no surprise that she joins that club," Lang-Montgomery said. "I'm excited she's still got some games to build on that."
 
Graduate guard Anne-Hamilton LeRoy returned from illness to play for the first time in five games, scoring eight points in 26 minutes off the bench. In all, eight Longwood players scored on the day, helping the Lancers hang with hot-shooting PC for much of the game. Longwood trailed, 17-16, through the first quarter and 31-27 at the half.
 
A McIntyre trey with four minutes left in the third pulled Longwood to within 41-37, but the Blue Hose closed the quarter with an 10-5 spurt, to lead, 51-42, at the start of the fourth.
 
Christiana Kline canned a 3-point early in the period, growing the PC advantage to double figures and the Blue Hose didn't allow the Lancers closer than 10 the rest of the way. Kline finished with 13 points on 3-of-3 from the field to represent PC's only other player scoring in double digits.
 
Malea Brown contributed nine points to Longwood's cause with three 3-pointers.
 
Presbyterian won the rebounding battle, 37-24 and scored 30 points in the paint in the win.
 
The Lancers return to action Wednesday at UNC Asheville. Tip time is set for 6:30 p.m.