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Longview, Texas – Shamika Singleton netted 16 points and Termeka Canada added 12 points and four boards off the bench in leading the Concordia University Texas women's basketball team to an 81-52 victory over LeTourneau on Saturday, Dec. 3 at Solheim Arena. The Tornados have won their first four games of the season by an average margin of 20 points and ended the afternoon as the American Southwest Conference's only unbeaten team left.

Concordia (4-0, ASC 3-0), which led from wire-to-wire, blasted off by scoring the first four points of the game on Shamika Singleton layups and never looked back. A fastbreak layup by Christen McLee put the Tornados up by 10 at 16-6 with 14:19 on the clock before a pair of free throws by Tiesha Martin extended the lead to more than 20 points in the final minutes of the half. The Tornado advantage grew to as many as 25 when Canada converted a layup, and the visitors were up 22 at the recess following a Jessica Manas layup that just beat the buzzer.

Concordia, which led 44-22 through 20 minutes of action, did not allow LeTourneau to get any closer than 20 points in the second half. The Yellow Jackets failed to make a field goal for nearly nine minutes as the Tornados went on an 18-6 run to vault ahead by a 62-29 score, which was capped by Lashanda Luckey's fastbreak layup. The Tornado lead ballooned to as many as 37 points on a Nadine Fadelle layup that made it 80-43 before the final whistle sounded a little more than four minutes later.

Led by Canada's 12 points, Concordia's bench outscored LeTourneau's by a count of 52-23. Singleton netted her team-leading 16 on 7-for-12 shooting from the field, while Luckey also scored in double figures with 13 points in a reserve role. Margaret Milling, who continues to put together the best assist-to-turnover ratio of all ASC point guards, had six assists and just three turnovers to go along with a game-high five steals.

LeTourneau (3-3, ASC 1-3) was paced by Sharday Cotton, who fell just shy of a double-double with 16 points and nine boards. DeShante Thomas had eight points, eight rebounds and one blocked shot off the bench.

Concordia will look to stay as the ASC's only unbeaten squad when it hosts Mary Hardin-Baylor on Saturday, Dec. 10 at 1 p.m. Special Olympics Texas teams are slated to be in attendance as part of the Athletes for Athletes program that was initiated by the school's Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC).