By james art 
Baton Rouge – Sa’myah smith and Jersey Wolfenbarger They both recorded double pairs such as No. 7 LSU (26-2, 11-2 seconds) removed Georgia (10-17, 2-11 sec) on Thursday night in PMAC, 79-63.
“I think I’ve learned a lot from this program,” said Wolfenbarger. “Since they were here, they raised my game in different ways.”
Aneesah Morrow missed the game on Thursday with leg tenderness, but is expected to return for the match on Sunday in No. 14 Kentucky, which will be at 15:00 ct on ESPN. Before Thursday, Morow played in all 130 games throughout his college career.
Smith had 11 points and 12 rebounds, while Wolfenbarger finished with 16 points and 12 rebounds. Flau’jae Johnson led the team with 28 points, her 37 straight game in double digits and had three thefts. Michael Williams scored 12 points with 5 assists and 4 rebounds. Kailin Gilbert also scored in double digits with 15 points
Trinity Turner in Georgia had 28 points with 5 rebounds.
Both teams fired 42 percent of the terrain, but LSU found an edge, creating speed and grabbed offensive struggles. The tigers grabbed 19 offensive glass struggles, allowing them to surpass Georgia in the second chance, 20-6. LSU has forced 17 Georgia rpm, resulting in 20 points from the speed. In addition, LSU reached the line significantly more than Georgia with 11 more free throws made from the bulldogs.
“After all, we all know what we want to do and this is to win a championship or be at that level,” Smith said. “So you know, we care about the things you need.”
Within the first four minutes of the game, each LSU starter had scored after POA for the last height sank three to come out with 15-8. Johnson hit his second three of the night to lift LSU, 20-10, as Georgia took a time-out. The LSU finished the quarter, passing only 1-10 from the pitch and entering the second quarter with a lead of 20-12.
The tigers began the second quarter when running 7-2, as the tigers managed to go into the transition and Georgia took another waiting. To the brand 3:02, Georgia reduced LSU’s lead to six. The tigers took the lead from 37-30 in the second half.
Georgia reduced the lead to five at the beginning of the third, but LSU uses 6-0 run to build its lead back, and Kailin Gilbert drained a medium-range shot, which pushed the tiger lead to 11 at the 5:13 brand of the third quarter. With the remaining 1.2 in the period, Johnson took an incoming pass and raised half Court 3, which found nothing but a network network, expanding LSU lead, 58-45.
In the first four minutes of the last quarter, LSU built its lead up to 20 points, stabbing the door to every potential return of Georgia. The game ended 79-63 in favor of Tigers.
*LSU press release
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