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| Tamara McCaskill |
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- The Lady Miners’ game effort Saturday afternoon came up short thanks to two players who have given them fits over the last two seasons.
Molly Carter and Becky Flippin scored 28 points apiece, with Flippin scoring the game-winning basket on a driving lay-up with 1.3 seconds to play in overtime, to give the Lady Panthers the 84-82 victory at Drury’s Weiser Gym.
UMR forced overtime on a basket by Nicole Dierking with 5.8 seconds to play in regulation time, then tied it with 17 seconds remaining in overtime on a basket by former Lady Panther Katie Bunge. However, Drury put the ball in the hands of Flippin on the wing and she drove to the basket to make the shot just before time expired.
The Lady Miners got a jump on the Lady Panthers going out to an 11-4 lead in the first 4:34 of play on a fast break layup by Tamara McCaskill, who scored 10 points in the opening half. Drury came back to eventually tie the game at 15 on a pair of free throws by Carter, but UMR rattled off an 11-2 run to build its biggest lead of the half.
Nicole Dierking’s driving layup gave UMR a 17-15 lead, then a pair of baskets by Maggie Thompson, a three-pointer by Chism McEntire and another jumper by Thompson in that stretch gave the Lady Miners a 26-17 lead with exactly six minutes left on the clock.
However, the Lady Panthers clawed back and took their first lead since it was 2-0 on a fast break basket by Carter, but a three-point play by Dierking gave UMR the lead back at 31-29.
Drury ended up with the halftime lead at 32-31, however, when a turnover in the backcourt led to a lay-in by Hannah Carter with just two seconds left.
UMR came back and took a 41-37 lead on a three-pointer by McCaskill, but after the Lady Panthers came back to tie it at 41 on baskets by Greta Wiersch and M. Carter, Jaime Forsberg and M. Carter swapped threes to keep the game even until Forsberg hit another long three-point shot to give UMR a 47-44 advantage.
The Lady Miner lead reached six on a fast-break lay-in by McCaskill before Drury got baskets from Sarah Bos and Flippin to trim the margin to two. Flippin hit a three moments later to give the Lady Panthers the lead back at 53-52.
After Josie Polk gave UMR the lead back on a jumper from just inside the three-point line, Flippin nailed another three to give Drury the advantage at 56-55. Drury increased its lead to three and later four, and while the Lady Miners closed to within one on five different occasions, it couldn’t overtake the Lady Panthers until their final run.
McCaskill hit a three-point shot to bring UMR to within a point at 67-66, but Flippin hit a three on Drury’s next trip down the floor. The Drury lead reached six before UMR scored the final six points to send the contest to overtime.
Two free throws by Bunge with 2:08 to play, a backdoor lay-up by Forsberg with 1:36 on the clock and a second chance basket by Dierking with 5.8 seconds to play tied the game.
UMR had one lead in overtime, which came on a put-back by Bunge 21 seconds into the period. Bunge had missed a chance to give UMR a lead with under a minute to go in the overtime when she missed two free throws, but atoned for it by making another put-back after Flippin gave Drury (4-3, 3-1 GLVC) the lead with 28 seconds remaining.
McCaskill led the Lady Miners with 20 points as four UMR players scored in double figures. Bunge had career highs for points with 19 and rebounds with 11 to post her first career double-double, while Dierking had a double-double for the second straight game with 12 points and 13 rebounds. Forsberg also had 12 for UMR.
UMR (5-3, 2-2 GLVC) will return to action with a game at Truman State on Dec. 19.
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