Mason Wins a Wild One, 77-75 in OT, at the Navy Classic

Saturday, November 27

Annapolis, MD.

3:15 PM

Bowling Green State University

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George Mason

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George Mason

Photo by: Larry Clapper

November 27, 2021 | Women's Basketball

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Back-and-forth game is not decided until the final seconds in Annapolis

By: by Mike Cihon, BGSU Strategic Communications

ANNAPOLIS, Md. – In a wild game that had a little bit of everything, the Bowling Green State University women's basketball team fell just short on Saturday afternoon (Nov. 27). George Mason University hung on for a 77-75 win over the Falcons in overtime, in day-one action at the Navy Classic.

Kadie Hempfling and Zoe Miller tied for game honors with 16 points apiece, pacing four double-digit scorers for the Falcons (1-3). Morgan Sharps added 15, while Nyla Hampton scored 10.

Miller's point total was the highest of her young BGSU career. The freshman has posted double-digit scoring totals in all four games this season to date.

Hampton's well-rounded stat line included a career-high six rebounds along with three assists, six steals (tying her career high) and two blocked shots.

Jazmyn Doster and Amaya Scott each scored 14 points for the Patriots (4-3), with Jordan Wakefield adding 13 and Tamia Lawhorne 11.

Lawhorne hit a pair of three-pointers in the final 2:08 of regulation as GMU ended the fourth quarter on a 9-0 run. That came after a 7-0 run by the Falcons.

GMU burst out to a 13-2 lead early, and the Patriots led by as many as 14 points, taking a 22-8 lead on a Doster layup early in the second quarter. But, BGSU ended the first half on a 13-2 run to get within two points at the break, holding the Patriots without a field goal over the final 4:20 of the period.

BG took a one-point lead early in the third quarter on a Madisen Parker layup, but that 37-36 advantage was the Falcons' only lead of the first 30 minutes. The Falcons went ahead by nine in the fourth, before GMU answered the aforementioned BG run with a run of their own.

The overtime period saw Hampton hit a layup, before the Patriots scored the next 10 points. Trailing by eight with under two minutes left and by six with less than a minute to go, the Orange and Brown nearly came all the way back. A Parker three got the Falcons within two points, and BG forced a GMU turnover with eight seconds on the clock. But, a last-second three-point try was off the mark, allowing the Patriots to escape with the victory.

FIRST QUARTER
• In a game that could have gone either way and very nearly did, the Patriots took an early lead. BG got on the board at the 7:43 mark, as Kenzie Lewis found Zoe Miller for a layup, but GMU answered with a 9-0 run, capped by a Taylor Jameson three-point field goal that made it a 13-2 game.
• Jocelyn Tate snapped that run with a driving layup, but BG then went over four minutes without scoring again, as the Falcons' next bucket – a Miller layup from Nyla Hampton – came with 14 seconds remaining in the quarter.
• But, after allowing GMU to go 6-for-11 from the field in the first five-plus minutes of the quarter, the Falcons held Mason to just one bucket in the final 4:57. The Patriots led, 16-6, after 10 minutes of action.

SECOND QUARTER
• Elissa Brett, seeing her first action of the season on Saturday, found Miller for a hoop on BG's first possession of the quarter, but Jazmyn Doster sandwiched a pair of layups around a Jordan Wakefield jumper, and suddenly it was a 22-8 Patriot lead.
• Kadie Hempfling sank a pair of free throws, as did Morgan Sharps, but Jameson answered with a triple for a 25-12 GMU advantage.
• Miller followed with a layup, and after a turnover, Sharps connected from three-point range. Hampton rebounded a Patriot miss and found Hempfling for an easy layup. BG's run was 7-0 and the deficit was down to six points.
• After a Paula Suarez layup, Lewis scored, and after several free throws, Brett hit a bucket in the waning seconds of the period, cutting the GMU lead to 27-25 at the intermission.

THIRD QUARTER
• Suarez opened the third period with a triple, but Madisen Parker found Miller for a bucket, the teams traded points until BG got buckets from Hampton and Hempfling to make it a one-point came at the 6:08 mark.
• Then, Hampton blocked a Jameson jumper, giving the ball back to the Falcons, and on a 2-on-1 break, Amy Velasco fed Parker for a layup. BG led for the first time all day, 37-36, and the Patriots used a timeout with 5:40 left in the quarter.
• But, Jayla Adams hit a three, and Amaya Scott scored to give Mason a 41-37 lead. Another Miller hoop was answered by a pair of GMU buckets, as the Patriots continued to hold on to the lead.
• Tate got a putback layup, and Sharps hit three-pointers on back-to-back BGSU possessions, with the second triple getting the Falcons within two points. Then, Hempfling found Hampton for a layup that tied the score, 49-49, after 30 minutes.

FOURTH QUARTER
• Adams opened the fourth-period scoring, but hoops from Hempfling and Sharps gave the Falcons a 53-51 lead with 6:44 to go. After a steal by Sharps, Hempfling found Brett for a layup that capped a 6-0 run and gave the Falcons a four-point advantage.
• Wakefield scored for the Patriots, but Hempfling hit a second-chance layup, and after Scott scored inside, the Falcons proceeded to go on a 7-0 run. Lewis hit Hempfling for a layup, and Miller converted a three-point play. Another Sharps steal led to a transition layup and a 64-55 lead, BG's largest of the game, with 3:04 to go.
• But, out of a timeout, Doster scored, and Tamia Lawhorne hit a pair of triples to make it a one-point game with 1:19 on the clock. The only scoring over the final 79 seconds was a free throw from Scott with 49 ticks to go. She made her first toss to tie the score, but missed her second attempt.
• BG turned the ball over, but Adams missed a layup in the waning seconds, and the teams headed to overtime.

OVERTIME
• Mason won the jump ball, but Hempfling came up with a steal, leading to a Hampton bucket at the 4:22 mark. Then, however, Mason would score the next 10 points. Five of those points came at the free-throw line, and the run included another Lawhorne triple.
• The last four points in that stretch were charity tosses by Doster, before a Hampton layup made it a 74-68 game with 1:47 remaining. Another Hampton hoop, this time a jumper after a steal, but the Mason lead to 75-70 with just under a minute to go.
• Adams split a pair of free throws on each of GMU's next two possessions, with Hempfling making a layup in between. After the second Adams toss with 15 seconds left, Parker hit a long-range shot with 9.8 seconds to go, cutting the Mason lead to 77-75.
• Out of a timeout, Scott inbounded the ball to Jameson, but Jameson stepped out of bounds, giving the ball back to BG. But, a three-point try by Hempfling was off the mark as the final horn sounded.

STATS, NOTES & NUMBERS
• GMU shot 46.8% from the field, going 29-of-62. The Falcons hit 32 field goals in 77 attempts, for a 41.6% success rate.
• BG shot 55% (11-for-20) from the floor in the third quarter and 47.9% after halftime.
• On the afternoon, Mason shot 36.8% from three-point line, going 7-for-19, while the Falcons shot just 4-for-25 (16.0%). Both teams struggled at the free-throw line, with BG shooting 50% and Mason 57.1%.
• The Patriots had a narrow 44-42 rebounding advantage, but Mason committed 23 turnovers to BG's 14.
• BG had just four turnovers after halftime. After committing seven turnovers in the first quarter, the Falcons had just seven more over the final 35 minutes.
• The Falcons had advantages in points off of turnovers (21-13), points in the paint (52-42), second-chance points (13-7), fast-break points (11-9) and bench scoring (39-21).

UP NEXT
• The Falcons will wrap up play in the Navy Classic on Sunday (Nov. 28), taking on Liberty University in a 1:00 p.m. start. Liberty beat Navy, 63-42, in Saturday's first game.
• Then, BG returns home for a pair of games on back-to-back Sunday afternoons, meeting Valparaiso (Dec. 5) and Notre Dame College (Dec. 12).
• Log on to BGSUFalcons.com for all of the latest news and updates re: the 2021-22 Falcons.

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