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Bailey Harris has moved into 10th place on the all-time career list for scoring for the UAM Blossoms.
Harris began the 2024-25 season with 1,036 career points in 18th position and has moved up eight spots, scoring 293 points in 20 contests thus far this season to move past Carolyn Boatman for the 10th spot.
Harris passed an all-time in UAM history in Boatman, who led the Blossoms to the AIC Championship in 1993 and a berth in the NAIA National Championship Tournament.
Boatman was a 2x All-AIC selection, 2x All-American, and was inducted into the UAM Sports Hall of Fame in 2017.
With eight contests remaining in the regular season, Harris will have to average over 10 points per contest in the final eight games of the season to pass 2014 Hall of Famer, the late Angela Meadough, needing 86 points to move to ninth.
Harris moved into the top 10 on Thursday, January 30, at home in Steelman Fieldhouse with the Blossoms taking on one of the top teams in the Great American Conference in Southern Nazarene University which is currently tied for first in the conference with Harding University.
SNU would get on the board first to begin the contest with Harris tying the contest at two on her first shot of the contest.
SNU would get the next four points before Harris connected on a three to pull the Blossoms within one point, 6-5, unfortunately it would be the final points the Blossoms would score in the first quarter as SNU would end the quarter on a 10-0 run for a 16-5 lead.
Harris would reach the top 10 in scoring in the second quarter on a three pointer with 3:15 remaining in the half, but SNU would go on to win the quarter 16-14 for a 32-19 halftime lead.
SNU would remain in control throughout the next two quarters, 18-16 in the third, and 10-4 in the fourth to take a 60-39 win.
Harris would lead the Blossoms in scoring with 16 points followed by Alindsey Long with 11.
Kennedee Shelton added five, Ella Mask with three, and Mahogany Pierce and CamillePritchard with two each.
The Blossoms would return to Steelman on Saturday, February 1, to host Oklahoma Baptist University.
The contest would remain close throughout the first quarter with UAM holding the lead for most of the quarter with the OBU tying the contest at 15 to close the quarter.
A jumper by Haliegh Crews would give the Blossoms the lead to begin the second quarter and the Blossoms would lead for the remainder of the half taking a 32-29 lead into the break.
Both teams would swap the lead in the third quarter but it would be the Blossoms that would have a seven point advantage, 53-46, on a layup by Nicole Weaver at the end of the third.
UAM would relinquish the lead for the final time in the contest with 3:46 remaining in the contest with OBU going on for the win 71-62.
Kennedee Shelton would lead the Blossoms on the scoreboard with 17 points followed by Bailey Harris also in double-digits with 10.
Alindsey Long added nine, Mahogany Pierce with seven, and Haliegh Crews with six.
Cha’Myrean Ellis and Nicole Weaver would each score four points with Ella Mask adding three points and Camille Pritchard rounding out the scoring with two points.
