Oregon State lastly performed a West Coast Convention ladies’s basketball sport that didn’t finish in additional time.
But it surely took some final second heroics to make it occur Thursday evening, as Kennedie Shuler’s three-point play with two seconds remaining gave the Beavers a 59-56 win over Loyola Marymount at Gill Coliseum.
It’s the primary time in 4 video games the Beavers (7-8, 3-1 WCC) haven’t performed additional time in a convention play. With the sport tied at 56-56, Shuler took an inbounds go close to the highest of the important thing, drove to the basket and floated a shot off the backboard as she was fouled.
Oregon State received its third consecutive sport as Kelsey Rees scored 17 factors and grabbed eight rebounds to cleared the path. Sela Heide and Catarina Ferreira scored 10 every. Heide scored all her factors throughout the third quarter.
4 gamers accounted for all of Loyola’s 56 factors. Brandi Williams hit 4 three-pointers and scored 17 factors to steer the Lions (6-6, 0-4).
Loyola managed the primary half in taking a 33-26 halftime lead. The Lions noticed Oregon State an early lead, then took over with a 9-2 run halfway by way of the primary quarter. LMU led 17-14 after one, the distinction a three-pointer by Williams on the ultimate possession.
After Ally Schimel hit a 3 to tie the sport at 17-17, LMU scored 10 consecutive factors in lower than two minutes. OSU obtained as shut as 29-26 on a three-point play by Rees, however the Lions scored the ultimate 4 factors of the quarter to take a seven-point halftime lead.
Oregon State’s zone protection made a distinction within the third quarter, because the Beavers outscored the Lions 20-10 to take a three-point lead. Loyola missed 9 consecutive photographs and went scoreless for practically seven minutes as OSU ran off 10 consecutive factors to take the lead.
OSU couldn’t shake Loyola throughout the fourth quarter. Shuler gave the Beavers a five-point lead with eight minutes left, however the Lions scored the following seven factors to overhaul the Beavers. Ferreira’s pair of free throws with 1:44 left put OSU in entrance by three factors, however the Lions tied it lower than a minute later, on a three-pointer by Naudia Evans.
Oregon State earned an opportunity to win it after forcing Loyola into a tricky shot on its ultimate possession. The Beavers known as timeout with 4.4 seconds and arrange Shuler for the sport winner.
Oregon State’s subsequent sport is midday Saturday at Washington State.
—Nick Daschel could be reached at 360-607-4824, ndaschel@oregonian.com or @nickdaschel.
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