Ladies of the Hill Fall 64-60 to Lady Golden Bears

MOBILE, Alabama -- The Spring Hill College (SHC) women's basketball team dropped a 64-60 outcome to Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC) opponent the Miles College Lady Golden Bears at the Arthur R. Outlaw Recreation Center on Monday evening.

The Lady Golden Bears (6-2, 3-0 SIAC West) trailed the Badgers 6-0 just 2½ minutes into the game, but rallied to take an 8-7 lead off a layup by Brittney Smith at the 3:48 mark of the period and never trailed again. Miles built as much as 10-point lead at 44-34 with just under four minutes left in the 3rd period, but SHC rallied for a 10-1 run that sliced the deficit down to 45-44 with 8:26 left in the game.

Miles answered right back with a jumper and layup to reclaim a 5-point advantage and would not let SHC get closer than 3-points over the final six minutes of play.

Badger forward Brittney Davis posted her season-high of 17 points to lead all scorers in the contest while center Leah Washington and guard Jennifer Clark each added 10 points. Washington tallied a double-double effort as she also hauled in a game-high 10 rebounds.

Spring Hill shot 37.5% (21-56) for the game and 28.6% (2-7) from 3-point distance while out-rebounding the Bears by a 40-32 margin. Turnovers proved to be the crucial difference in the game as SHC lost 18 turnovers to nine steals by Miles who converted the Badger turnovers int
o 21 points.

For Miles, Larian Scott and Javonne Brown came off the bench to post 17 and 12 points respectively as the Bears shot 45.1% (23-51) from the field and were 2-of-5 (40%) from long distance. Miles lost the ball 14 times to seven Badger steals that resulted in 13 points.

The Badgers (2-6, 1-1 SIAC West) next will host non-conference opponent the Southern University in New Orleans (SUNO) Lady Knights (2-6) on Wednesday beginning at 5:30 p.m. in the Arthur R. Outlaw Recreation Center..

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