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FARMVILLE, Va. – Charleston Southern guard Njeri Nelms tallied a game-high 18 points and Weknyne Dumorne earned a double-double with 11 points, 13 rebounds to lead the visiting Buccaneers past the Longwood women's basketball team 78-61 Saturday afternoon inside Willett Hall.

Nelms and Dumorne were part of a Buccaneer quintet that finished in double figures, as Charleston Southern (9-12, 4-6 Big South) shot a scorching .574 (31-54) from the floor. Rachel Burns produced a near double-double with 14 points, eight boards while Shelby Wilbanks added 12 points and Shauntavia Dobson pitched in with 10. The Buccaneers were able to overcome a 17-point outing in the return of Longwood (3-18, 1-9 Big South) guard Autumn Childress, 11 points and seven rebounds from Kristina Antonenko and the seventh game this season that Kate Spradlin finished in double figures.

Charleston Southern, who shot .509, in the first meeting between the two teams, shot lights out with a .574 mark from the floor, along with a .375 (3-8) shooting percentage from beyond the arc. The .574 mark is the highest field goal percentage yielded by Longwood on the season, after Longwood had held opponents to just 60.8 points per game in its last five games coming into Saturday's contest.

Nelms scored 10 of her 18 points in the first half to pace a Buccaneer squad that shot above the .500 mark in all four quarters. Dumorne secured her third double-double of the season, securing nine of her 13 rebounds in the second half.

Childress returned to the floor for the Lancers after being sidelined due to sickness for Longwood's last three games. Childress returned to form, securing her team-leading eighth game of the season in double figures while collecting seven rebounds to finish just shy of her Big South-leading eighth double-double of the season.

A product of Midlothian, Va., Childress finished 7-of-15 from the floor while also adding an assist in 21 minutes. Her 17 points finishes two shy of matching her season-high of 19 points which came earlier this season in Longwood's win over UMass Lowell.

Spradlin secured her seventh game of the season in double figures and second in her last three, finishing with 12 points on 5-of-11 shooting in 35 minutes. Antonenko finished with 11 in her third game in double figures to average 11.8 points per game in that stretch.

Longwood returns to Willett Hall Tuesday, Feb. 6 to face High Point where the Lancers will wear their pink uniforms in its annual game to raise awareness for breast cancer. That game is set for a 7 p.m. opening tip.

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