WASHINGTON, Pa. \u2013 The Bethany College women\u2019s basketball team closed the game with a 16-4 run to post a 65-58 come-from-behind victory at Washington & Jefferson in the regular season finale \u00a0Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n
The win upped the Bison\u2019s record to 13-12 overall and 8-8 in the PAC. Combined with Chatham\u2019s win at Thiel Saturday, BC also earned the #4 seed and a first-round home game in next week\u2019s PAC Tournament. The Presidents dropped to 9-16 and 6-10 in the league.<\/p>\n
The first half was tightly contested through the first 10 minutes. Trailing 15-13, senior Tara Harris (Zanesville, Ohio) hit a lay-up to start a 20-6 blitz from the Bison. Harris scored eight and BC made all four of their-three-pointers in the opening half during the run. W&J did manage to post the final four points of the period to trim the Bison lead to 33-25 at intermission.<\/p>\n
A trey from junior Audra Droginske (Wheeling, W.Va.\/Wheeling Central) pushed the Bison margin back up to 40-29 with six minutes gone in the second half. But the Presidents answered with eight straight points and ripped off a 23-7 surge that saw the hosts take a 52-47 lead on an Ashley Kirkpatrick lay-in with 5:28 to play.<\/p>\n
The teams exchanged scores for a 54-49 W&J margin when Bethany began their comeback. It started with a triple from junior Anne Wilson (Saegertown, Pa.\/Cambridge Springs) and following three straight points from sophomore Kayla Taormina (Center Twp., Pa.\/Quigley), junior Renee Shepherd (New Martinsville, W.Va.\/.Magnolia) shot the Bison into the lead at 58-56 with a trey at the 1:09 mark.<\/p>\n
Bethany would maintain the lead at the foul line, as the Green and White went 6-for-7 in the final minute, including Wilson making all four of her attempts from the line, to secure the victory. The triumph also snapped the Bison\u2019s six-game losing streak to W&J.<\/p>\n
Leading the Bethany win was Harris, who registered her second double-double of the season with 16 points and 10 rebounds. Taormina notched 12 markers, nine boards and four assists and Wilson finished with 11, all coming in the second half.<\/p>\n
The Presidents were paced by Kirkpatrick with a game-high 18 points..<\/p>\n
The Bison needed a little help to get the quarterfinal home game and got what they ordered when Chatham beat Thiel 63-59. That outcome gave Bethany the tiebreaker over Grove City (13-12, 8-8), who drops to the fifth-seed and will travel to BC for the quarterfinals. Then teams split their regular season meetings, with the Wolverines winning 66-59 at Hummel Field House Jan. 6 and the Bison earning revenge with a 69-65 triumph at GCC Feb. 5. Tip-off Tuesday night is scheduled for 6 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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