PEORIA, Ill. -- Junior Leti Lerma (Muscatine, Iowa/Muscatine) paced three Bradley players in double figures with game highs of 16 points and seven rebounds off the bench to help the Braves to a 66-52 victory over Evansville Friday night at Renaissance Coliseum.
The Braves found themselves in an early hole with Evansville’s Sara Dickey hitting a trio of three-pointers to help the Purple Aces jump out to a 16-4 less than five minutes into the contest. Lerma assisted a Whitney Tinjum (Stacy, Minn./Chisago Lakes/Washington State) layup and had a fastbreak hoop of her own to open a 12-0 Bradley run which tied the game at 16-16 nearing the two-minute mark of the first quarter.