COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.- Despite an impressive offensive showing and dropping 70 points, BHSU was not able to pull out a win versus UCCS as they allowed the Mountain Lions to come back and win with BHSU not able to get a last second shot. The Yellow Jackets outrebounded the Mountain Lions 56-24 with four players having eight rebounds or more.
Sawyer Stoebner had a 12 points, 10 rebounds double-double and
Brinlee McRae had 17 points and 8 rebounds
QUICK DETAILS
Score: Black Hills State 70, UCCS 73
Team Records: Black Hills State 13-8 (10-4 RMAC), UCCS 14-8 (10-4 RMAC)
Attendance: 101
HOW IT HAPPENED
- The Mountain Lions opened up the game hot with a 10-1 run with two threes. The Yellow Jackets went on a 7-2 run to try to claw back and make it 12-8 with a three from McRae. UCCS went on a 7-2 run of their own to make it 19-10 before a jumper by Audrey Norville and a layup by Alli Glasscock cut the gap to five heading in to the second quarter at 19-14.
- BHSU started the second on a 8-3 run to tie the game at 22 with UCCS's head coach Misty Wilson getting ejected on a double tech in the middle of this run, which allowed Bradie Schlabs to make three of four technical free throws to tie the game up. The two teams traded shots back and forth with Emily Cooper giving BHSU it's first lead of the game on a three pointer with 4:37 to go in the first half. UCCS answered with a three-point play to make it 29-27. Maureen Ulrich got a three-point play of her own to make it 30-29 and after the two teams traded a bunch of free throws it was 33-33. Jayla Jackson-Allen made a layup and then Stoebner answered to send it into halftime tied at 35.
- Halftime leaders for the Yellow Jackets included Ulrich, who had nine points and six rebounds. Sawyer Stoebner had seven points and four rebounds, and McRae had six points and five rebounds. For the Mountain Lions, Jayla Jackson-Allen had 11 points, Mya Wilson had seven points, and Breelyn Robinson had six.
- Norville started the second half with a layup before Amyah Moore-Allen went on a solo 5-0 run to give UCCS a 40-37 lead. BHSU went on a 6-0 run to make it 43-40 with McRae hitting two layups. UCCS went on a 12-5 with a McRae three pointer and seven more points from Moore-Allen to make it 52-48 UCCS. BHSU ended the quarter on a 10-3 run with four field goals from four different players and four points from Alli Glasscock to go into the final frame up 58-55.
- UCCS started the final period on a 6-2 run to take the lead back at 61-60. BHSU answered with a 7-2 run with Taylin Serlen and McRae each hitting field goals to give the Green and Gold a 67-63 lead. UCCS went on another run, this time 8-2, with two three pointers back-to-back from Jackson-Allen and Brynae Stewart. Serlen made one of two free throws with a chance to tie the game and kept BHSU down one at 71-70. Jackson-Allen made a layup to make it 73-70 and BHSU had 30 seconds to tie. They came down and used most of the shot clock before Glasscock took a mid-range jumper that missed. Schlabs got the offensive board with ten seconds to go and could not find a shot which sent the clock to zeros and gave UCCS the crucial 73-70 win.
BLACK HILLS STATE STATISTICAL LEADERS:
Brinlee McRae: 17 points, 8 rebounds
Sawyer Stoebner: 12 points, 10 rebounds
Audrey Norville: 11 points, 5 rebounds
Maureen Ulrich: 9 points, 9 rebounds
UP NEXT
The Yellow Jackets will head home for their second to last home weekend of the season and will face a tough matchup in Colorado School of Mines, who is near the top of the RMAC. They will also face a Regis team that just got their first RMAC win this weekend versus Westminster.
