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CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. – Morehead State senior guard Courtney Lumpkin hit a three-pointer with 10 seconds left to send the game to overtime, but the host Austin Peay women’s basketball team outscored the Eagles 12-5 in the extra period to defeat MSU 88-81 at Dave Aaron Arena Saturday night.
MSU fell to 9-17 overall and 6-8 in the Ohio Valley Conference, while the Lady Govs won their second straight league game and improved to 7-20 overall and 4-10 in the OVC.
Leslie Martinez registered career bests of 20 points and 14 rebounds to lead APSU, which won for the fifth time in six years against the Eagles in Clarksville.
Lumpkin totaled a game-high 29 points on 9-of-20 from the field and 4-of-8 from three-point range. Junior forward Ashar Harris grabbed a game-high 15 rebounds to go along with nine points. She now needs just 13 more boards to reach 1,000 for her career. Freshman guard Almesha Jones handed out a team and career-high seven assists.
After the teams battled to a 39-all tie at halftime, Austin Peay grabbed the momentum and led the entire second half until Lumpkin’s trey on MSU’s last offensive possession of regulation. Whitney Hanley, who also scored 22 points for the Lady Govs, gave her team a three-point lead (76-73) with 26 ticks left.
The Eagles worked the ball to Lumpkin at the top of the key, and she buried her 45th triple of the season to tie it. Hanley dribbled the length of the floor and tossed up a potential game-winner as time expired, but it rolled around twice before rimming out.
In overtime, APSU freshman guard Shira Bulley scored eight of her 10 points, and the hosts held the Eagles without a made field goal on five chances.
MSU fell behind 8-2 early but rallied back to take as much as a 10-point lead on three occasions in the opening half, the last coming with 9:43 left (28-18). But the Lady Govs outscored the Eagles 21-11 in the last nine minutes to knot it up at 39 at the break.
MSU shot a season high 58 percent in the first half and finished with 48 percent shooting efficiency for the game (29-of-60). APSU hit 59 percent (13-of-22) in the second half and hit 3-of-5 in the overtime period.
APSU topped MSU in the rebounding column, 39-34, and outscored the Eagles 27-17 at the free throw line.
Morehead State returns home to host Eastern Illinois on Thursday at 5:15 p.m. ET.
