ROCK HILL, S.C. – Junior
Laney Bone posted a double-double of 13 points and 10 rebounds, but Winthrop held on for a 55-54 Big South Conference victory over the Longwood women's basketball team at Winthrop Coliseum Saturday.
The Lancers stormed all the way back from a 22-12 halftime deficit to take a 42-41 lead with a Bone jumper with 7:20 to play. The Eagles, though, used a 10-1 run over four minutes to regain control.
An
Otaifo Esenabhalu layup, assisted by
Frances Ulysse, cut the Winthrop lead to 51-45 with 3:03 to on the clock. A
Bailey Williams layup with 51 seconds left made it a four-point game.
Jada Ryce and
Kiki McIntyre traded buckets with 31 seconds left before a pair of Winthrop free throws pushed the Eagles' lead to 55-49.
Adriana Shipp-Davis hit a 3-pointer with 16.8 seconds remaining, Â making it a one-possession game. McIntyre then stripped Leonor Paisana and Shipp-Davis had a last-gasp triple fall short. Ulysse grabbed the rebound and put it back up and in for the final margin.
Bone finished 5-for-10 from the field and five offensive rebounds in 24 minutes of the bench as part of the third double-double for a Longwood player this season.
Longwood (6-18, 3-8 Big South) rebounded from a slow start to shoot 48.5 percent in the second half and put up 38 points in the third quarter. Bone scored seven in the period while Brown and Esenabhalu had five each.
Shipp-Davis finished with eight points and six rebounds, becoming the 135th player in Big South history to grab 500 career boards when she collected her fourth carom of the day in the opening 10 minutes.
Marissa Gasaway paced Winthrop, which improved to 11-13 overall and 5-6 in the league with the win. Gasaway tallied 13 points and 14 rebounds for her sixth double-double.
The Lancers are back in action in a week when they host Presbyterian at the Joan Perry Brock Center at 2 p.m.
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