Geoducks Knock Off Northwest in OT
KIRKLAND, WA – The Evergreen State College took care of the Northwest University women tonight, 83-76, in overtime tonight in exciting Cascade Conference play.
Both halves ended in ties as the teams went into their locker rooms at the half knotted up 36 a piece. The second half would see four ties before TESC would take the lead, 55-53 with 8:59 remaining in the game, but Steph Faltau’s jumper with 4:24 left would tie the game up one again at 59. After three lead changes, Jennifer Solberg’s 3-pointer would put Geoducks up 68-64 with 18 seconds left. Molly Clark’s free throw with 6 ticks on the clock would put Eagles to within 3, 69-66 with just 5 seconds left. NU was forced to foul and sent Jennifer Solberg to the free throw line with 4 seconds left on the clock. Solberg’s free throw missed and was grabbed by NU’s Rachel Travis who drove the entire right side of the court and put in the 3-point bank shot right before the buzzer sounded sending the game into oevrtime.
The Overtime was all Evergreen State as free throws by Solberg and Rosalind Lee and a jumper by Lee would put TESC up for good at 75-69 with 3:19 left in the extra period. The Eagles would lose Brittany Bowsher and Erika Hornyak to five personal fouls and TESC would close the game out with three free throws, two by Joy White and one by Molly Clark.
Junior Jennifer Solberg (Tacoma, WA) led Evergreen State (4-12, 3-4 CCC) with 24 points on the night. Sydney Davis (Fr., Centralia, WA) scored 13 for the Geoducks. TESC out rebounded Northwest 44-42 and shot 42% on the night.
Northwest U. (2-13, 1-6 CCC) lost their seventh straight and was led by guard Rachel Travis (Jr., North Bend, WA) with her 19 points on the night. Erika Hornyak (Fr., Everett, WA) added 14 points while junior Brittany Bowsher had 13 on the night for the Eagles. NU shot 39.7% from the floor and had 17 turnovers.
Both teams now take on The College of Idaho and #22 Eastern Oregon this coming Friday and Saturday night in Caldwell, Idaho and LaGrande, Oregon. Northwest is in Caldwell on Friday night and TESC takes on EOU in LaGrande and the teams switch opponents on Saturday.