SEATTLE – The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) Vaqueros women's basketball team fell to the Seattle U Redhawks 71-68 in overtime on Wednesday at the Redhawk Center.
Graduate student
Taylor Muff led the Vaqueros (10-16, 6-8 WAC) with her fourth double-double, scoring 16 points with 12 rebounds (career-high six offensive) and two steals. Sophomore
Halie Jones posted her first-career double-double with 13 points and a career-high 10 rebounds. Sophomore
Sara Bershers scored 12 points with seven rebounds, a season-high tying four assists, two steals and a season-high tying four blocks. Freshman
KaCee Kyle finished with 12 points.
Bree Calhoun led the Redhawks (9-16, 4-10 WAC) with 13 points, five rebounds, five assists and seven steals.
Hailey Vice-Neat scored 12 points and two steals.
Georgia Kehoe scored 10 points with two blocks.
Jadynn Alexander also scored 10 points.
Tied at 60 at the end of regulation, neither team scored until midway through overtime when Alexander made a layup. After a Muff free throw, Vice-Neat made a layup and two free throws to put the Redhawks up 66-61.
Sophomore
Jena' Williams hit a pair of free throws with 24 seconds left to make the score 66-63.
Then, with the sore 68-63, Muff made a jumper to again make it a one possession game.
After a Calhoun free throw, Williams nailed a deep 3-pointer to bring the Vaqueros within 69-68 with 11 seconds left, but that's as close as they got.
Muff used a pair of jumpers to sandwich a Kyle 3 as the Vaqueros jumped out to a 7-0 lead. The Redhawks responded by scoring 10 of the final 14 points in the quarter to pull within 11-10.
Kyle opened the second quarter with a pair of 3-pointers. Then, with the score 17-16, a Muff jumper sparked a 12-3 run to put the Vaqueros up 29-19.
The Redhawks got as close as 29-26 early in the third before the Vaqueros went on a 15-4 run, powered by a Bershers 3, layup and pair of free throws, to go up 44-30.
The Vaqueros pushed their lead to 15 twice, including 52-37 on a pair of Muff free throws early in the fourth. That's when the Redhawks scored 18-straight points as part of a 23-2 run to take a 60-54 lead.
Jones snapped the run with a jumper, Kyle hit a 3, and Jones made a free throw to tie the game at 60 with 1:43 remaining.
UTRGV visits Sam Houston on Saturday at 3 p.m. Fans can watch in the United States on
ESPN+ or internationally on the
WAC Digital Network.
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