Women's Basketball Clinches #4 Seed with 20-Point Win over Doane
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | T | |
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Hastings (22-6, 17-5) | 19 | 22 | 22 | 25 | 88 |
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Doane (NE) (15-13, 10-12) | 12 | 23 | 20 | 13 | 68 |
(Crete, NE) – The women's basketball team took care of business on Saturday by turning over Doane 30 times and outscoring them by 12 in the fourth quarter, en route to a 88-68 victory over the Tigers.
Hastings scored the first four points of the game on layups from sophomore Rachel Goodon. Leading 4-3, junior Mariyah Avila scored the next five points and Goodon later scored down low to go up, 11-5 with 5:44 left in the first.
Threes by senior Alyssa Baker and freshman Ann Bose put the Broncos ahead by nine and after Doane went on a 4-0 run, Avila closed the quarter with two free throws, leading to a 19-12 lead after one. Avila and Goodon combined for 13 of the 19 points.
Junior Macy Bryant drilled a three following a steal by Avila to begin the second. Hastings kept the lead at 10, leading 26-16 with a steal and layup from Baker, then Kissinger pushed the lead to 12 by forcing a turnover and scoring inside with 6:23 left in the half.
Doane trimmed the lead to 30-23 with 4:41 left, but a three from Bryant and a three-point play by Bose briefly put Hastings up 13, but Doane finished the half on a 12-5 run to make it 41-35. Hastings built its lead by forcing 17 first half turnovers and turning them into 19 points. Aliva's nine first half points led the way for Hastings.
Avila answered a three from Doane to begin the second half, but the Tigers answered with a quick 5-0 spurt to get within one, later tying it at 46 with 6:36 to go. The Tigers briefly took a 48-46 lead on free throws, but Bose got to the rim for two, knocked down a three, and hit another jumper to go back up five with 4:19 left.
Bose later scored her ninth straight point for Hastings, as they maintained a small lead. Avila scored five quick points, including a three. Goodon made a layup to put Hastings ahead 63-55 going to the final quarter. Bose and Avila contributed 17 of the 22 Bronco points in the quarter.
Hastings came out strong in the fourth by scoring the first seven points, beginning with a Bryant triple and two layups by sophomore Tathis Arredondo to go up 70-55 with 8:43 remaining, then Bryant answered a Doane layup with free throws to maintain the 15-point lead with 6:42 to go.
Leading 76-61, sophomore Bailey Kissinger stepped to the line and put in two to take a 17-point lead and Bryant made it 20 with a three with 4:14 left. The Broncos led by as much as 21 and eventually won, 88-68, outsourcing the Tigers 25-13 in the fourth.
For the game, Hastings shot 45 percent with 11 three-pointers and held Doane to 36 percent and 31 percent from three. They forced 30 turnovers and had 38 bench points to Doane's 10. Avila had 19 points and four steals, while Bose had 19 points and three rebounds off the bench. Bryant contributed 14 points, eight rebounds, and four steals. Goodon finished with a double-double of 10 points and 10 rebounds, including five offensive.
Up next, #4-seed Hastings (22-6, 17-5) will host #5-seed Northwestern (18-10, 14-8), after Dakota Wesleyan defeated Doane in overtime earlier today to clinch the third seed, in the GPAC tournament on Wednesday, Feb. 26 at 7pm in Lynn Farrell Arena.
