Women's Basketball celebrates on court late in the game against Boston University
Scott Fields
87
Boston U. BU 10-4,2-1 Patriot
91
Winner American Americ 5-9,3-0 Patriot
Boston U. BU
10-4,2-1 Patriot
87
Final
91
American Americ
5-9,3-0 Patriot
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 OT 1 OT 2 F
Boston U. BU 18 19 15 17 7 11 87
American Americ 10 22 19 18 7 15 91

Game Recap: Women's Basketball |

Women’s Hoops Drops 91 Points in Double-Overtime Victory over Boston U.

WASHINGTON – Grit and mentality led the American University women's basketball team to claim the determined, double-overtime, 91-87, win over Boston University. The Eagles remain a perfect 3-0 in the Patriot League and send the Terriers back up to Boston with their first league loss, only their second loss in the regular season in two years.

INSIDE THE BOX SCORE
  • Sophomore point guard Laura Nogues went 5-8 from deep to lead the Eagles on the afternoon. She tallied a career-high 24 points. She also had three rebounds and five assists.
  • Bailey Garbee was clutch in key moments throughout the game, the junior with four three pointers and a total of 12 points. Five rebounds, two steals, and a block were also on her stat line at the conclusion of the game.
  • Emily Johns finished the game with 22 points of her own. The senior forward also had four rebounds and a steal. She went 7-8 from the free throw line as well.
  • For the second game in a row, senior Ivy Bales did it all on both sides of the ball. The guard led with four steals and on the glass with nine rebounds. She also dropped nine points. She also had a block and five assists.
  • Molly Lavin tied her career high as well, with 15 points and five rebounds, a steal, and a block.
HOW IT HAPPENED
  • Neither team had luck early. Boston opened 0-3 from the floor while AU was 1-3 in the first three minutes. Lauren Stack won the tip and grabbed the first basket of the game swiftly, but it was over two minutes later before another shot dropped.
  • It picked up when Boston went on a 10-0 run to catch, then surpass, the Eagles, finishing out the first quarter up 18-10.
  • Offense started to click for the Eagles in the third with Nogues, Lavin, and Garbee draining shots from distance, two from Lavin, and Bales sinking a jumper and drawing the foul, converting for all three points.
  • Lavin ended up finishing the first half with eight points, all of them coming in the second frame. BU held a two-possession, 37-32, lead heading into the halftime break.
  • Nogues opened the second half by draining two unanswered three pointers and forcing a Terriers timeout when the Eagles took a 38-37 lead with 7:25 left to play in the third period.
  • A 12-4 run to start the third had American up by three, but the Terriers fought back, and it was a tight affair that would lead to just one point separating the two teams, BU up 52-51, heading into the final 10 minutes of the contest.
  • The teams were knotted at 53-all with 6:10 left to play and again at 57-all with 5:04 left to go in a tense encounter in Bender.
  • A clutch trip to the line had Garbee making a free throw, Lavin grabbing the rebound on the second, and earning a trip to the line that she converted on, and the Eagles were up 64-63 with 1:50 left.
  • Boston went up one, 68-67, with 12.7 seconds remaining but a foul by the Eagles sent Caitlin Weimer to the line and the Terriers went up two, 69-67. Weimer's second free throw was a miss that Johns got fouled on while grabbing the rebound, the senior made both of her free throws and it was all tied up at 69-all at the end of regulation.
  • The first overtime frame had the Eagles up by four at one point, but two trips to the free throw line for Boston had the teams even 76-all with 22.0 seconds to go in the period. American's defense held strong and forced a turnover but with too little time to get a shot off. They did manage to push to a second overtime period.
  • In double OT, another Garbee three and a pair of clutch free throws from Bales put the Eagles up 83-76.
  • American held an 87-84 lead until 19.8 seconds left when Nogues and Bales clinched the victory for certain with two more free throws each and the Eagles claimed the 91-87 victory over Boston University.
UP NEXT
American heads out on the road to face Army on Sunday, Jun. 14 at 2 p.m. before coming home next week to face Loyola Md. on Wednesday Jan. 17 and try and sweep the series against Lehigh on Saturday, Jan. 20 when the two teams face off for the second time already this season.
 
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