Box Score Olympia, Wash. – The No.5 Eastern Oregon women's basketball team held on to defeat Evergreen State College an Cascade Collegiate Conference matchup, 50-45.
Senior
Chayla Jones led the Mountaineers (23-2, 13-0 CCC) in scoring with 15 points and 9 rebounds while Senior
Brooke Randall added 11 points and 5 assists.
Evergreen (5-12, 4-9 CCC) was led by Danielle Swain who nearly had a double-double with 9 points and 14 rebounds. Teammate Jessica Denmon also finished with 9 point and added 4 rebounds.
The Mountaineers jumped out to a four-point lead before the Geoducks got their offense rolling. Midway through the half the teams were tied at 14 apiece. With 7:15 left to play in the half that Eastern gained their largest lead, 19-14. Evergreen wouldn't go away and took a one-point lead, 22-21, at the four minute mark after a three pointer by Swain. EOU would go on a 6-0 run in the last two minutes and take a 27-22 lead into halftime.
For the first half the Mountaineers would shoot 11-of-27 (40%) from the field and 3-of-7 (42%) from behind the arc. The Goeducks shot 9-of-24 (37%) from the field and 3-of-11 (27%) from the three point line.
Eastern came out of the locker room refocused in the second half and took a quick eleven point lead after back to back threes by Senior
Kelsea Hurliman and Randall. Evergreen then went on a 7-0 run and cut the Mountaineers lead to just four with 15:16 left to play in the half. Both teams would go scoreless for a three minute stretch three, until a jumper by Jones with 7:24 on the clock extended the Mountaineers lead back to 10. ESC was relentless as they cut the lead back to four with just three minutes left to play. Evergreen was forced to foul in the last couple of minutes sending Eastern to the charity stripe where they would shoot 7-of-8 down the stretch to come away with the victory.
Eastern finished shooting 17-of-49 (34%) from the field and 5-of-14 (35%) from the three point line. Evergreen finished shooting 17-of-46 from (37%) from the field and 4-of-14 (28%) from behind the arc.
Eastern will return home to play Corban next Friday, Feb.1 game time is set for 5:30 p.m. Live stats and video will be available at
EOUsports.com
