SPARTANBURG – Wofford and Furman played a women’s basketball game on Saturday that looked like it was played outdoors, whereas, Richardson Indoor Stadium is titularly not.

It was cold out there. Wofford was cold. Furman was colder, and the Terriers won, 69-51.

The Paladins fired their first 17 three-pointers awry. On the not very positive side, they hit two of the final nine. Furman (11-8, 1-2 SoCon) shot a season-low .306 (19/62) overall.

The loss was the second straight for the Paladins in a stretch of three SoCon, season- opening road games.

Wofford (10-7, 2-1) fared only slightly better in the shooting department, hitting on just .346 of its shots. The Terriers led by only six after three quarters.

 Rachel Rose became the first player in Wofford program history to achieve a triple double by means of 19 points, 16 rebounds and all 11 of the Terriers’ assists.

Evangelia Paulk followed with 18 points and 10 rebounds.  Annabelle Schultz scored 13 points, and Indiya Clarke had 12.

Niveya Henley was the lone Paladin to reach double figures with 13 points.

The Paladins suffered 21 turnovers in the contest, which turned into a whistle-fest for much of the second half as Furman was called for 24 fouls and Wofford 19.

Furman managed to claim a 44-39 rebounding edge on the strength of 15 boards by Jada Session, one shy of her career high.

Two minutes into the fourth quarter, Wofford led 49-45. Seventeen consecutive points followed over the next 5:37.

Furman tips off its SoCon home season on Thursday against Samford at 7 p.m.

Take a look at the stats here.

Senior Carson Williams ran a 3:55.46 mile on Saturday at the Carolina Challenge in Columbia., setting a new Paladin and facility record. 

Williams, from Raleigh, N.C., was paced by senior Cameron Ponder and went on to win the event by almost three full seconds. His time shaved over two seconds off the previous Furman record of 3:57.62, which was set by Ryan Adams in 2020, and off the facility record of 3:57.83, which Eliud Kipsag of Alabama formerly held.  Williams currently ranks fifth on the NCAA indoor track championships qualifying list. 

Furman earned three additional gold medals, with senior Megan Marvin winning the women’s 800m and junior Sierra Bower crossing the line first in the women’s mile. Junior Nick Goldstein was the top collegiate finisher in the men’s 3,000m.

Visiting James Madison (1-1) defeated Furman (1-3) at Mickel Courts by a score of 5-2 in men’s tennis.

Furman picked up victories from Emil Westling and Leonardo Dal Boni at Nos. 2 and 3 singles.

In Tuscaloosa, Alabama defeated Furman (0-2) in women’s tennis, 7-0.

Furman pushed Alabama to a third set in three of the six singles matches. 

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