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Women's Basketball
65
Southern Nazarene SN 10-4,7-1 GAC
75
Winner Harding Hard 11-4,7-1 GAC
Southern Nazarene SN
10-4,7-1 GAC
65
Final
75
Harding Hard
11-4,7-1 GAC
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 F
Southern Nazarene SN 13 18 18 16 65
Harding Hard 20 16 19 20 75

Game Recap: Women's Basketball | | Scott Goode (1/14/23)

Harding Leads Throughout, Downs Southern Nazarene

SEARCY – Despite battling foul trouble throughout, Harding never trailed and snapped Southern Nazarene's nine-game winning streak with a 75-65 victory over the Crimson Storm Saturday in Great American Conference women's basketball action at the Rhodes-Reaves Field House.

It was the second nine-game winning streak Harding snapped this weekend after defeating Oklahoma Baptist 63-49 at home Thursday. The Lady Bison improved to 11-4 and moved into a first-place tie atop the GAC.

Southern Nazarene lost for the first time since a 65-63 loss at Washburn on Nov. 18 and fell to 10-4 overall and 7-1 in conference.

Aubrey Isbell scored 17 of her 21 points in the first half, and Jacie Evans matched her with 21 points on 7-of-10 shooting and 7-of-8 at the free-throw line.

Sage Hawley, who missed the last 13 minutes of the first half with foul trouble, scored 15 points and added 10 rebounds for her eighth double-double of the season and 27th of her career.

Rory Geer had her third double-double of the season with 12 points and a career-high 15 rebounds, and Kendrick Bailey, who along with Geer played the full 40 minutes, scored four points and tied her season high with seven assists against only one turnover.

Harding shot 49% and had a 45-34 rebound advantage. Southern Nazarene shot 37% and made only 13 of 22 (59%) at the free-throw line.

Harding led by as many as 11 points in the first quarter, shooting 58% in the period. Hawley and Evans both picked up two early fouls, but the Lady Bisons led 20-13 after one quarter.

Hawley and Evans sat the entire second quarter, but Isbell continued to pour it on offensively. She shot 6-of-9 from the field in the first half. Southern Nazarene cut Harding's lead to only one midway through the quarter, but the Lady Bisons got late buckets from Isbell and Geer to go to the break at 36-31.

Harding hit 9-of-16 shots in the third quarter, including a late baseline jumper from Hawley and led 55-49 entering the fourth quarter. Southern Nazarene made only six shots in the period but two of them were 3-pointers.

Harding led by at least six points throughout the fourth.

The Lady Bisons will next play Thursday in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, taking on Ouachita Baptist.

 
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