OAKLAND CITY, Ind. – Chism McEntire nailed a three-pointer with 11.5 seconds left to give the Lady Miners the lead Thursday as Missouri S&T came away with a 70-67 win over a game Oakland City team.
The host Lady Oaks had a two-point lead until McEntire knocked down a three out of the corner to give S&T the lead. Oakland City had a chance to win it, but Samantha Stahl’s three-point attempt with four seconds left rimmed out.
Tamara McCaskill scored at the buzzer to wrap up the victory for the Lady Miners, who won for the fourth straight game.
The Lady Miners led for most of the first half, building as much as a 10-point lead at 29-19 after a basket by Katie McElrath. S&T led 32-25 at the intermission.
After the teams traded baskets through the early minutes of the second half, S&T built its biggest lead of 12 after back-to-back three-pointers from Lauren Dubbert and Josie Polk. The Lady Oaks, however, trimmed that lead down to four over the next four minutes.
McEntire halted the run with a three-pointer, but the Lady Oaks kept chipping away at the S&T lead and got it down to one on two occasions, the last at 65-64 on a driving layup by Jodi Hobbs with 1:44 to play.
McCaskill missed a jumper in the lane with just over a minute to play, then Karissa Walter hit another driving lay-in with 51 seconds left to give OCU its first lead of the second half at 66-65.
Katie Bunge had a chance to put S&T back in front with 32 seconds to go, but missed both free throws and Walter made one of two at the other end to put the Oaks up by two prior to McEntire’s basket.
Dubbert led S&T with 14 points, while McElrath and McCaskill had 13 points each and McEntire finished with 11. The Lady Miners hit 11 three-pointers in the contest.
The Lady Miners (9-2, 3-1 Great Lakes Valley Conference) return to GLVC action Saturday when it plays at the University of Missouri-St. Louis (4-7, 2-2 GLVC). Game time will be at 1 p.m.
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