Dec. 9, 2008

12.9.08 - Oklahoma City, Okla.- The Mid-America Christian University (MACU) women's basketball team fell to Sooner Athletic Conference (SAC) opponent University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma (USAO) 65-60 on Tuesday night at the Gaulke Activity Center.

The Lady Evangels are now 4-5 overall and 0-2 in conference play. With the win the Drovers are 7-3 overall and 1-1 in the SAC.

USAO led for the first five minutes of play before the Lady Evangels took over the lead. The teams matched up point for point until there were eight minutes to play in the first half and USAO started to build a comfortable lead going into the locker room.

The Drovers out scored the Lady Evangels 15-9 in the last eight minutes of the first half. They led by 10 at the end of the first 20 minutes with a score of 36-26.

USAO shot 41 percent from the field, 50 percent from the arc and 89 percent from the free throw line.

MACU struggled from behind the arc going 0-6 in the first half. They shot 30 percent from the field and 72 percent from the free throw line.

MACU came out strong, getting the first bucket of the second half cutting the Drovers lead to seven (36-29). A Melissa Aguilar 3-pointer and two made free throw by April Hale brought MACU within three with 17:53 to play.

A Treasure McCoy putback gave the Lady Evangels the lead (46-44) with 10:26 to play. For the remainder of the game neither team had a lead larger than five points.

MACU was down by one with eight seconds on the clock. They were able to get a shot off but it did not go and they were forced to foul making the final score 60-65.

Sophomore Melissa Aguilar had 15 points and five rebounds on the night. Tiphani Eaves had 15 points and Treasure McCoy had 11 rebounds.

The Lady Evangels finished the game shooting 35 percent from the field, 28 percent from the arc and 69 percent from the free throw line.

The Lady Evangels will continue conference play at home on Thursday, December 11th when they take on Oklahoma City University at 6 p.m.