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| Tamara McCaskill |
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- The Lady Miners allowed a 14-0 run to Bellarmine early in the game and never caught up from that as they dropped their fourth straight game Saturday afternoon by the score of 74-68 at Knights Hall.
UMR grabbed the early lead on a basket by Katie Bunge, but the Knights scored the next 14 points to take a 12-point lead by the 13:08 mark. The Bellarmine lead was still 12 at 20-8 midway through the first half, but the Lady Miners clawed back into the game and got the margin down to five at 25-20 on Maggie Thompson’s layup with just under two minutes left in the half.
Bellarmine led 31-23 at the half and pushed its lead back into double figures early in the second half before UMR went on a run that put it right back in the game.
The Knights led 47-40 with exactly 14 minutes to play, then UMR outscored Bellarmine 7-2 over the next 1:25 and drew to within two on a layup by Nicole Dierking. UMR then had a chance to get the game tied on its next trip down the floor, but a missed shot followed by a turnover led to a three-pointer by Denasha Mondy that gave the Knights a five-point advantage.
UMR closed to within two again at 60-58 when Jaime Forsberg drove down the floor for a layup with 5:30 left, but baskets by Ashley Lewallen and Mondy got the BU lead back to six.
McCaskill made a lay-in with 3:53 to go to make it 64-60, then UMR got a defensive stop and a chance to draw closer, but a turnover in the backcourt allowed the Knights to get back to the free throw line – when they scored their final 10 points to put the game away.
McCaskill led the Lady Miners (8-7, 2-6 Great Lakes Valley Conference) with 17 points, while UMR had three others in double figures in Bunge with 13 points, Dierking with 11 and Jennifer Pena with 10.
UMR shot 44.6 percent from the field on the afternoon, but connected on just four of its 14 attempts from three-point range.
The Lady Miners will host Wisconsin-Parkside Thursday in a 5:30 p.m. game at the Bullman Multi-Purpose Building.
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