NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — Christopher Newport senior Anaya Simmons became the 29th player in program history to score 1,000 career points in a 69-44 win on the road Saturday afternoon, as the top-ranked Captains improved to 23-0 on the season. The Captains closed out the regular season with a perfect 12-0 record in road games, extending their winning streak while playing as the visiting team to 30.
In addition to adding to the nation’s longest road winning streak, the top-ranked Captains also extended the team’s season-opening roll overall to 23 straight games. Salisbury fell to 7-17 with the setback.
Simmons came into the game needing eight points to reach 1,000 and closed out the game with exactly that, paired with a game-high 10 rebounds. She is the fastest post player to reach the 1,000-point plateau since CNU Athletics Hall of Famer Candace Bryant reached the mark in two fewer games during the 2005-06 season. Simmons was playing in her 78th career game and is now averaging 12.8 points per game for her career. The Williamsburg, Va. native joins teammate Sondra Fan in the 1,000-point club after the graduate student also reached the mark in her third season a year ago.
In the second-to-last game of the regular season, Christopher Newport led wire-to-wire, marking the 13th such victory this season. The Captains put together another suffocating defensive effort, holding Salisbury to just 30.6 percent shooting (15-49) and 44 points in the game. CNU snagged 11 steals, led by three from Hannah Kaloi, and forced 22 Salisbury…
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