GO, GO GREENBERG

Tuesday, January 23

Irvine, CA

5:30 p.m.

California Baptist University

*Concordia

1/23/2007 8:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball

Box Score

IRVINE, Calif. --- It was deja vu all over again for Erin Greenberg in California Baptist's 85-83 win Tuesday night.

After the Lancer guard hit a jumper with just 13 seconds left to tie the game and sent it to overtime, Concordia had tied up the game at 83-83 with just 21 seconds left.

The Lancers (12-7, 4-6) looked to be out of luck after Nicole Davis' attempt missed with 5 seconds left, but Bryana Williams came up with a board and found Greenberg to the right of the free-throw line, setting up the game-winning shot as time expired.

"I saw Bryana fighting for the rebound and I expected the ball since 3 girls were on her," said Greenberg, who scored 22 points on the night. "I knew if she could get ahold of the ball, it would be coming to me and so I wasn't surprised when it was passed my way. The shot felt good coming off my hands?for some reason, I was relaxed when I shot it."

Greenberg, whose jumper tied the game at 72-72 with 48 seconds left in regulation, scored her only 2 points of the overtime period at the buzzer. She finished with 4 3-pointers, while Williams grabbed a team-high 12 boards?none as crucial as the final rebound.

“Bryana fought hard for that rebound,” said California Baptist head coach Steve Sain. “She got her hands in there and struggled for it, and came through with the rebound. She grabbed it and had the presence of mind to kick it out to the open player. It was a huge play for us.”

“When Erin put up that shot, we glanced up and saw that there were 1.2 seconds on the clock,” said Sain, whose Lancers move past Concordia into seventh place in the GSAC with the win. “With Erin's arch on the ball, the clock was just about expiring by the time it went in, but we knew when it left her hands that it was there for sure.”

California Baptist trailed, 60-45, with 15:04 left in the second half, but mounted a 16-3 run that included 8 points from Davis?who led the way with 38 points and 10 assists?and a pair of 3-pointers from Greenberg, making the deficit 63-61 on Adaobi Gwacham's jumper at 11:01.

While the Lancers continued to keep pace with the Eagles throughout the duration of regulation, they did not lead until Davis buried a jumper at 2:15 that made the score 78-76. It was the Lancers' first lead since the 2:19 mark in the first half.

Davis hit 15 free-throws to mark the third-most buckets from the charity stripe in school history, while her 17 attempts tie her for second on the school single-game chart.