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DETROIT -- On the strength of a 25-6 run midway through the game, the Detroit women's basketball team surged past Wright State and into second place in the Horizon League with a 75-64 victory over the Raiders on Saturday afternoon as part of Homecoming Weekend.

The win moved Detroit to 9-10 on the year and 5-2 in the Horizon League, where it is now in second place due to the midseason tiebreaker. Wright State fell to 12-7, 5-2 in the conference.

Sophomore Megan Hatter (Howell, MI/Howell) led five Titans in double figures by tying her career-high with 16 points, while also pulling down a career-best eight rebounds. Hatter was 6-of-12 from the field with another career-high netting three 3-pointers.

Freshman Shareta Brown (Pontiac, MI/Grand Blanc) had 13 points and nine rebounds despite playing limited minutes due to foul trouble, while junior Demeisha Fambro (Detroit, MI/Crockett Tech) provided a spark off the bench with 13 points, her second-straight game in double figures.

Detroit was down 27-23 with under five minutes left in the first half when the red, white and blue took the lead for good on an 11-0 run in front of its homecoming crowd. Fambro led the charge coming off the bench to score eight-straight points, including back-to-back 3-pointers. Junior Yar Shayok (Ottawa, ON/Hillcrest) added a basket and Jones split a pair of free throws as the Titans went into the half up, 34-31.

Detroit stayed hot offensively coming out of the locker room with another 11-0 run to extend its advantage to 14, 45-31. Junior Chanahl Putnam (Almont, MI/Almont) got the charge going with a trey and that was followed with a 3-pointer from Hatter. After a technical foul was issued to WSU, two free throws by Jones ensued and then sophomore Senee Shearer (Detroit, MI/Pershing) would later hit from long range.

After a Raiders' basket, Shearer found the bottom of the net from three-point range again and Detroit had its largest lead of the contest, 48-33, at the 15:56 mark.

All told, the Titans turned the once four-point 27-23 deficit to a 15-point lead with a 25-6 spurt covering nearly nine minutes of play. Detroit held the Raiders to 1-of-12 shooting in that span with four turnovers, while UDM was 8-of-12 from the field, including five 3-pointers.

Detroit never trailed the rest of the way, but a Wright State 17-6 run cut the Titans' lead to four, 54-50, with 7:47 remaining. That is when the Titans stayed composed with Hatter knocking down a three to stop that WSU drive. The Raiders would then trim the margin to six, 59-53, but baskets by Brown and senior Jalesa Jones (Detroit, MI/Pershing) pushed it back to 10 with 4:42 left.

Wright State got back within single digits, but UDM hit eight of its 10 free throws down the stretch to seal the victory.

Shearer ended the game with 14 points, while Jones added 12 points and five assists playing all 40 minutes. Shayok finished with four points and three boards and some good defensive work inside, while Putnam tied her season high with four assists.

The Titan defense saw WSU shoot just 33.8% from the field hitting 24-of-71. Detroit's defense also did a good job on Wright State's leading scorer Kim Demmings, holding the rookie to 16 points on 6-of-25 shooting, including 1-of-8 from three.

Detroit nailed a season-high 10 trifectas and shot nearly 44% from the field, hitting 25 of its 57 attempts.

It was a close game throughout the first half as neither team led by more than five points. The Titans tallied the first five of the game and led 8-5 until WSU scored six straight for its first lead of the contest at the 14:20 mark.

Neither team could put much of a distance from each other after that as the game was tied five times in the next eight minutes when the Raiders jumped on top by four, 27-23, with 4:53 left in the first.

Detroit will hit the road for a pair of games next week starting with Youngstown State on Thursday night. Game time is set for 7:05 p.m., at the Beeghly Center.

Game Notes:
Detroit now leads the overall series, 21-17…Brown (15.8) and WSU's Kim Demmings (16.6) are the two highest scoring freshmen in the Horizon League coming into today's game…Putnam had missed the last three games and six of the last 10 with an injury before starting today and playing 17 minutes…Fambro came off the bench to net 18 last week against Green Bay…Half of the Titans 28 shots in the first half were from behind the arc…UDM had five players in double figures for the second time this season and the first since its 76-66 win at Loyola on Jan. 7…It was the fourth time this season that Hatter has been in double digits…Hatter also tallied 16 points in the victory over IPFW…The 10 3-pointers were the most since the Titans had 10 at home against Valparaiso last season.