By Travis Cram | AVALANCHE-JOURNAL

If the Lady Raiders can keep this up throughout the season, there may be no end to their winning.

Senior Forward Dominic Seals led Texas Tech with 22 points and 15 rebounds in a 109-25 win over the Melbourne Roos on Sunday at the United Spirit Arena in the first exhibition basketball game of the 2008-09 season.

She and five other Lady Raiders finished in double-figures.

Seals took hold of the game early on, hitting seven of her first nine shots for 14 points – part of an 18-0 run to start the first half.

Tech head coach Kristy Curry said even though the game was won early, she emphasized the need to get plenty of minutes for her younger players and hold Melbourne to as little points as possible.

“The biggest thing is to just get started,” she said. “Experience. Just get as many players as much experience as we can put Kierra (Mallard), Jordan (Barncastle) and (Tilmila) Martin in … the goal of the game defensively was to make sure we held them under 30 and we talked about that at the half.”

The Lady Raiders had runs of 18-0, 17-0 and 18-0 through the first half to take a 56-8 lead into the break.

Melbourne finally got on the board when Esther Timmermans hit a 3-pointer to make it 18-3 – her only field goal of the game.

The Roos struggled early with poor shooting and a tough Tech defense that forced nine turnovers in the first 10 minutes and 27 total.

Freshman forward Jordan Barncastle and freshman center Kierra Mallard got their first minutes in a Tech uniform.

Mallard got her first double-double with 10 points and 13 rebounds. Barncastle added 6 points and 7 rebounds.

“At first I was kind of nervous,” Mallard said, “but after I started playing well it was fine.”

The only struggle the Lady Raiders had in the first half came from outside the arc, hitting only 4 of 12 attempts.

Tech missed its first five three point attempts until Keisha Walker hit the first of her four threes and 10 total for the Lady Raiders.

Tech finished 34.5 percent from behind the arc.

The Lady Raiders will play their second and final exhibition game at 2 p.m. on Sunday against the Houston Jaguars before the regular season begins on Nov. 14 against Idaho.

Texas Tech 109 Melbourne 27

MELBOURNE 27

FG FT REB

Min. M-A M-A O T PF A TP

Drennan 29 0-10 3-4 5 7 1 0 3

Timmermans 29 1-9 0-0 2 3 2 0 3

Nash 20 0-7 0-0 0 2 0 0 0

Wallis 22 1-7 0-0 1 2 1 1 3

Hobbs 17 0-5 0-0 0 2 3 0 0

Olsen 4 0-3 0-0 1 1 0 0 0

Whelan 23 2-5 0-0 0 2 0 2 6

Cann 25 5-12 0-0 0 2 1 1 10

Black 15 1-3 0-0 0 2 1 3 2

Smith 16 0-3 0-0 1 3 0 1 0

2 4

Totals 200 10-64 3-4 12 30 9 8 27

Melbourne 8 19 – 27

Texas Tech 56 53 – 109

TEXAS TECH 109

FG FT REB

Min. M-A M-A O T PF A TP

Seals 18 11-15 0-0 8 15 2 1 22

Moore 22 4-11 2-2 1 6 1 7 12

Murphree 23 4-9 2-2 3 8 2 3 11

Henderson 15 1-5 0-0 0 3 1 1 2

Brown 26 8-15 0-0 4 5 2 1 18

Barncastle 25 3-4 0-0 4 7 1 1 7

Walker 20 6-9 0-0 1 4 2 1 16

Martin 19 3-9 1-1 0 1 3 1 7

Mallard 24 5-10 0-0 3 13 0 1 10

Rumph 8 2-3 0-0 1 2 0 1 5

0 2

Totals 200 47-90 5-5 25 66 12 21 109

Shooting percentages: Melbourne 15.6% FG, 20% 3-pt. FG, 75% FT; Tech 52.2% FG, 34.5% 3-pt. FG, 100% FT. 3-point goals: Melbourne 4-20 (Whelan 2-3, Timmermans 1-2, Wallis 1-6). Tech 10-29 (Walker 4-7, Moore 2-4, Brown 2-7, Murphree 1-4, Rumph 1-1). Steals: Melbourne 7 (Timmermans 2, Olsen 2, Cann, Drennan, Hobbs); Tech 18 (Moore 5, Walker 4, Murphree 3, Brown 3, Rumph, Martin, Henderson). Turnovers: Melbourne 27 (Drennan 6); Tech 14 (Seals 3, Barncastle 3, Mallard 3). Total fouls: Melbourne 9, Tech 12. Fouled out: None. Technical fouls: None. Officials: Gator Parrish, Brian Hall, Kelly Copeland. Attendance: N/A

Kansas State 66 Texas Tech 45

TEXAS TECH 45

FG FT REB

Min. M-A M-A O T PF A TP

Plefka 19 2-5 0-0 1 4 1 1 4

Zeno 36 2-8 0-0 3 3 4 3 5

Voskuil 19 1-1 0-0 0 2 3 0 2

Jackson 38 10-24 4-5 1 1 1 1 28

Burgess 32 2-8 0-0 1 5 1 1 4

Valentine 2 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0

Hoffmeister 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0

Mitchell 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0

White 17 0-1 0-0 0 3 2 0 0

Prince 7 0-1 0-0 0 1 1 0 0

Ogden 2 0-3 2-2 0 0 0 0 2

White 8 0-1 0-0 0 0 2 0 0

Suljagic 9 0-0 0-0 0 1 1 0 0

Dora 9 0-1 0-0 1 2 1 0 0

1 3

Totals 200 17-53 6-7 8 25 17 6 45

KANSAS STATE 66

FG FT REB

Min. M-A M-A O T PF A TP

Hoskins 30 2-10 4-7 4 12 1 4 8

Martin 31 6-13 1-1 0 5 2 0 17

Harris 35 8-14 0-0 1 3 1 3 20

Stewart 17 0-1 0-0 0 1 3 2 0

Wright 35 1-4 1-2 3 9 1 3 3

Young 24 5-7 0-0 2 2 2 1 12

Walker 0+ 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0

Afeli 1 0-0 0-0 0 1 0 0 0

Maybank 16 2-2 0-0 0 0 0 3 4

Merriweather 2 0-0 0-0 0 1 0 0 0

Kent 9 1-1 0-2 0 1 2 0 2

2 4

Totals 200 25-52 6-12 12 29 12 16 66

Texas Tech 26 19 – 45

Kansas State 33 33 – 66

Records: Tech 21-12, Kansas State 22-10. Shooting percentages: Tech 32.1% FG, 29.4% 3-pt. FG, 85.7% FT; K-State 48.1% FG, 43.5% 3-pt. FG, 50% FT. 3-point goals: Tech 5-17 (Jackson 4-10, Zeno 1-1, White 0-1, Ogden 0-1, White 0-1, Dora 0-1, Burgess 0-2), K-State 10-23 (Harris 4-7, Martin 4-9, Young 2-2, Stewart 0-1, Hoskins 0-2, Wright 0-2). Steals: Tech 4 (Voskuil 2, Plefka, Suljagic); K-State 4 (Young 3, Wright). Blocked shots: Tech 2 (Suljagic 2); K-State 5 (Harris 2, Wright, Walker, Kent). Turnovers: Tech 12 (Jackson 3, Zeno 3); K-State 14 (Hoskins 3). Total fouls: Tech 17, K-State 12. Fouled out: None. Technical fouls: None. Officials: Scott Thornley, Terry Davis, Kelly Self. Attendance: 18,879

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