Boxscore

HATTIESBURG, Miss. ? Shan Moore scored 18 points to lead Louisiana Tech to a 70-50 win over Grambling State Saturday afternoon in the consolation game of the 2006 La Quinta Inn Lady Eagle Classic hosted by Southern Mississippi.

Tech, which lost 86-84 to Eastern Kentucky on a last second shot Friday night, held the Lady Tigers to only 23 percent shooting for the game while also forcing 30 turnovers.

After Grambling opened the game hitting 5-of-8 shots from the field, Coach Rusty Ponton?s team missed 30 of its next 33 attempts as Tech built its lead.

?I saw some good things,? said Tech head coach Chris Long. ?However, we still have to get tougher. We just aren?t a tough minded basketball team right now. That has to improve.?

Moore scored 12 of her game-high 18 points in the first half as the Lady Techsters built a 38-24 halftime lead, one that did not come easily.

Grambling State cut the Tech lead to 15-14 on a Keva Wilson jumper at the 14:22 mark of the opening stanza before the Lady Techsters used an 18-3 run over the next nine minutes to push the advantage to 33-17.

Tech quickly pushed the advantage out to 51-28 in the second half as Grambling State missed 12 of its first 13 shots in the period.

?I thought we defended much better today (than last night),? Long said. ?We still put them at the free throw line too much but we did a better job of contesting shots.?

Despite making only 6-of-29 field goals in the second half, Grambling kept the game respectable by connecting on 14-of-17 free throws.

Ty Moore added 11 points and a game-high eight rebounds for Tech, which continued to struggle on the free throw line making only 14-of-28 as a team.

?Free throw shooting has hurt us this year,? Long said. ?We scored 70 points today and missed 14 free throws. We work on it everyday in practice. It?s got to get better.?

Kourtney Sherman led Grambling with 11 points.

Tech returns to action Tuesday when it hosts Tennessee at 7 p.m. at the Thomas Assembly Center.