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Fredrikah Wilson @ Gulf Coast

Women's Basketball Michael D. Gunnell, Southwest Sports Information

Second-half rally comes up short for Lady Bears

The Southwest Lady Bears fell just short in attempting to overcome a 16-point, second-half rally in Perkinston Monday night as they dropped a 62-59 decision to host Mississippi Gulf Coast.
 
The loss, only their third of the season, dropped the Lady Bears to 15-3 overall and into a three-way tie for first place, with Meridian and Pearl River, in the MACJC South with a mark of 7-2. Gulf Coast moved to 7-10 and 3-6.
 
The teams played each other close for most of the first half with four ties in the first 11:08. The Lady Bears took their biggest lead, 14-8, on Fredrikah Wilson's bucket with 11:03 to play. Gulf Coast took control from there, outscoring the Lady Bears 23-8, to take a 36-23 lead with 1:14 left in the half. A pair of Katrina Littlepage free throws cut the deficit 36-25 at the break.
 
All seemed lost for Southwest early in the second half as a Salinda Brown jumper with 18:56 to play put Gulf Coast up 41-25. The Lady Bears cut into the lead, narrowing it down to 46-38 on a Talisa Sherman layup with 13:00 on the clock. But, the Lady Bulldogs quickly pushed their lead back to 14 points, 52-38, with 11:01 to go.
 
Then, with a pair of Wilson free throws and a Littlepage layup providing the bookends, the Lady Bears went on an 18-5 scoring streak to pull back to within one point, 57-56, with 2:16 left in the game. Unfortunately, for the Lady Bears, Gulf Coast recovered to score five of the game's final eight points to escape with the narrow victory.
 
Second-year Southwest head coach Brent Harris said after the game that his team "showed very little discipline on defense tonight, which cost us late." But, he also said he was "proud of our rally in the second half. We will learn from tonight and improve as a team."
 
Littlepage topped the Southwest offense with 21 points on 7-10 shooting from the field and 7-10 shooting from the free throw line. Wilson added nine points in the game while April Levy had eight and Talisa Sherman scored seven.
 
Madison Mault netted six points for Southwest with Tee Myers recording four. Courtney Epting and Elayne Robinson both picked up two. The Lady Bears made 11 of 18 free throws.
 
Christa Owen scored 21 to lead the Gulf Coast offense. The Lady Bulldogs hit 17 of 27 free throws.
 
The Lady Bears are back at home Thursday night as they go for the season-sweep against arch-rival Co-Lin. Game time is set for 5:30.

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