COCHRAN, Ga. - Ten Tigers scored, including four in double-digits to power Stillman to its first Southern States Athletic Conference win of the season Saturday afternoon, 80-54, at Middle Georgia State University. The 26-point win not only stopped a two-game skid but is a Stillman record for win margin in a SSAC game. It is also the widest win margin for Stillman in a conference game since a 26-point win over Lane College in 2015 as members of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. 

Senior post players Farrah Pearson and JaMesha King led Stillman through the first half and finished the game with 17 and 16 points, respectively. Pearson hit a jumper to give the Tigers a 6-5 lead early in the game and Stillman never trailed again. King gave the Tigers their first double-digit lead, 20-10, on the first basket of the second quarter. The largest lead of the first half was 17 points, 34-17, after a pair of Pearson free throws with 54 seconds left in the half. 

King grew the lead to 22 points, 45-23, with a jumper early in the third quarter, her final basket of the game. A jumper and free throw by Pearson in the final minute capped Stillman's scoring for its largest lead of the game.

Jamariah Turner scored 11 points in the fourth quarter to help the Tigers' lead grow. She finished with a season-high 18 points. Thaniyah Marks also scored a season-high 12 points.  

Pearson (70%), Turner (78%), Marks (56%) King (54%) and Jordine Moody (50%) combined to shoot 27-of-43 (62.7%) as the starting five. Moody led all players with six assists, while Turner and Hannah Boykin-Williams each had five assists. 

The Tigers shot 58.9% from the floor as a team and led the Knights in almost every facet of the game: rebounds (30-25), assists (24-9), steals (13-6), blocks (4-1), points off turnovers (20-17), second-chance points (8-4) and points in the paint (54-12). Middle Georgia had the better 3-point percentage and free throw percentage. 

Stillman (4-2, 1-1 SSAC) will carry its win into Thanksgiving Break. Action will resume in 11 days when the University of Tennessee Southern visits Birthright Alumni Hall in Tuscaloosa on Wednesday, Nov. 29 at 5:30 p.m.