MARSHALL, Mo. – Women's Basketball battled back from a halftime deficit on Monday night against Missouri Valley College but just couldn't break through in the fourth quarter as the Vikings earned a 78-72 win.
After trailing 40-33 at the half, Benedictine used a 23-point third quarter to not only erase their halftime deficit but pull ahead 56-54 headed to the fourth quarter.
The teams traded baskets through the first three minutes of the fourth quarter before Benedictine went cold from the floor. Aaliyah Raines connected on a 3-pointer to tie the game at 61 points with 7:39 remaining in the game. Benedictine's next field goal came with 3:33 left in the game after Kennedy Nicholson hit a 3-pointer of her own to cut Benedictine's deficit to three points.
Jennifer Jacobs pulled the Ravens within two points with 25 seconds remaining in the game before the Vikings hit 6 free throws in the final 24 seconds of the game to hold off the Ravens comeback and hang on for the 6-point win.
Benedictine finished the game shooting 38.9 percent from beyond the arc with 7 3-pointers. Their 3-point total was the most in a game since making 7 back on Jan. 4 in their loss to CMU.
Jacobs and Raines finished with 15 points each while Twillah Carrasquillo finished with a double-double, scoring 12 and pulling in 12 rebounds.
The Ravens wrap up its 3-game road trip on Thursday with a 5:30 p.m. game in Baldwin City against Baker University as they begin the second half of Heart play. Benedictine earned a 69-64 win over the Wildcats in their first meeting on the Benedictine campus back on No. 30.
