Breton-Parker Lady Barons Win In Double Overtime
Courtesy of BPC
Brewton-Parker College Women’s Basketball welcomed Keiser (Fla.) to Mount Vernon, Ga., for a nonconference matchup on Monday night. The Lady Barons (11-1) de feated the Seahawks (5– 4) in a double-overtime thriller, 93-87, in front of an electric crowd in Gillis Gymnasium.
“Today was a fun, but tough game," Head Coach Steve Edwards mentioned. “We battled a good Keiser team, and we battle through adversity tonight. Our group was sluggish most of the night, but I am proud of our fight.”
“Players make plays and our players stepped up big when we needed them,” Edwards added. “We will get some rest and prepare for two big games in Tennessee next week.”
The Lady Barons started the quarter off slow, dropping to a quick 8-0 deficit. Angle McRae put in a pair of free throws to give BPC its first points of the game with 7:48 in the quarter. After a 9-8 stretch led by five points from Micah Bess and four from McRae, Cynthia Engler hit a massive fourpoint play from beyond the arc to make the game 16-15 Seahawks.
The quarter ended with the Seahawks taking a 6-2 stretch to hold a 2217 advantage over the Lady Barons. Keiser out shot Brewton-Parker by more than 30% from the field and nearly tripled BPC’s three-point percentage, shooting for 60% from beyond the arc in the first 10 minutes of play.
Bre w t o n – Pa r k e r struck first in the second quarter with a jumper from Bess and kept the pressure on the Seahawks as they took an 11-6 stretch capped by backto- back threes from Bess and Cori Keats to secure a 30-28 lead with 6:10 to play. Keiser responded with an 11-2 run to take back the lead and put the Lady Barons into a seven-
point deficit with 2:50 left in the quarter. BPC produced a 6-3 stretch to cut the Seahawks’ lead to four with just over a minute to play in the half. The quarter ended with the Seahawks making one free throw to put the Barons into a 43-38 deficit at the half.
Keiser dropped the first four points of the third quarter before Ke- ats, and the Lady Barons responded with seven unanswered to cut the defi- cit down to two with 7:22 remaining. BPC managed to chew some clock and reclaimed a one-point lead after two scoreless minutes of play. Samerria Bryant put up a jumper to give the Lady Barons a 52-51 lead with 2:47 on the clock. After a pair of free throws from the Seahawks, A’Aliyah Clay knocked down a bucket from deep to give the Lady Barons a 55-53 lead going into the last quarter of regulation.
Jumpers from Clay and Evans gave BPC a 4-2 stretch at the start of the quarter to improve to a four-point lead with 8:52 left in the game. The Seahawks led a 5-4 stretch over the next three min- utes to cut the Lady Bar ons’ lead to three with 5:01 on the clock. After another two scoreless minutes, Evans put up a jumper and followed it up a minute later with a pair of free throws to extend the BPC lead to seven with 1:34 left to play. The Seahawks began pressuring the Lady Bar ons into fouling, producing six points from the foul line down the stretch to cut the deficit to just one point with nine seconds on the clock.
Evans managed to go 1-for-2 from the foul line with seven seconds on the clock to move to a twopoint edge. Keiser was able to put up a fastbreak bucket to tie up the game at 68-68, forcing overtime.
Overtime got kicked off with both teams on the foul line and only making a shot a piece to stay tied 69-69 with 4:16 left on the clock. Keiser
found the basket and took a 71-69 lead over the Lady Barons with 3:20 on the clock.
With 2:17 on the clock, Keonya Mincey put up a jumper to tie the game back up 71-71. Both teams found themselves level at 75-apiece after a 4-4 stretch, leaving 0:22 on the clock. Mincey gave Brewton- Parker a two-point lead with just under 10 seconds left with a pair of made free throws. The Seahawks dropped a shot from the charity stripe to cut the Lady Barons' lead to one, but Evans responded with a pair of free throws to go up by three with seven seconds left. Keiser clutched up with a big bucket from three-point range to force a second overtime at 7979.
Keiser opened with a jumper 60 seconds in, but Mincey leveled with a score of her own. BPC found some momentum as Evans produced a 7-0 run to take an 88-81 lead with just over 90 seconds to play.
The Seahawks responded with an “andone” to cut the deficit to a two-possession lead. Three free throws from BPC moved the Lady Bar ons into a 91-84 lead with 40 seconds left. Keiser battled for three more points from the charity stripe, but Brewton-Parker held on down the stretch to secure a thrilling 93-87 win at home.
BPC shot 35.3% (30– of-85) from the floor, 31% (9-of-29) from three, and 66.7% (24-of-36) from the foul line. Evans led the team with a season- high scoring effort of 28 points, nine rebounds, and five assists. McRae led the team with a season- high and game-leading 18 rebounds while scoring 12 points for her second double-double of the season. Keats, Clay, and Bess all also scored double digits with 12 points each. Defensively, Brewton-Parker forced 23 turnovers and recorded 12 steals. Keiser secured the rebounding battle with a 55-45 margin.
