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For the second straight game, Lee women's basketball team got off to a slow start in the first quarter, trailing 19-13 to visiting Alabama Huntsville but finished strong over the last three periods to win convincingly 87-64.
 
Saturday afternoon's victory was the fifth straight for the surging Lady Flames as they improved to 13-3 overall and continue to lead in the Gulf South Conference standings with a 7-1 mark.  Alabama Huntsville dropped to 6-8 and 4-4.
 
Lee will continue its home stand on Thursday, hosting University of Montevallo at 6 p.m. "Montevallo won again today and they will certainly come in fired up and ready to play us," commented Lee head coach Marty Rowe.
 
After trailing 19-13 at the end of the first quarter, the Lady Flames seized control in the second quarter and grabbed a 39-29 lead at the break. The contest stood at 62-49 after three frames.
 
"Huntsville cut our margin to 10 points in the final quarter but our girls rebounded and showed our strength in finishing the contest. Our goal is to see our team keep improving and that's what happened this afternoon," pointed out Coach Rowe.
 
Rowe was pleased to see five of his players finish in double-figures. "When that happens, we are hard to beat." Lindsey Roddy finished with 20 points and connected on 8-of-12 field goal attempts and 4-of-5 3-pointers. For the game, Lee connected on 12-of-23 3-pointers (53 percent). They carded 33-of-60 shots from the field (55 percent).
 
Taylor Boggess came up with one of her best efforts of the year and tallied 17 points, canning 7-of-8 field goal attempts and 3-of-4 treys. Abby Bertram was held scoreless in the first half but finished with 14 points (4-of-9 3-pointers). Haley Schubert poured in 13 points and Kayla Tillie rounded out the double-figure scoring with 10 points. Becca Cheeks had a team-leading eight rebounds as the Lady Flames won the battle of the boards 39-31. Ten different Lee players contributed to the victory.
 
The Chargers managed to stay close most of the way behind the play of Baylee Johnson (27 points) but Aryn Sanders was the only other Huntsville player in double figures (15). Once again the Lee defense did the job, holding the Chargers to 36 percent shooting from the field.