California Baptist University
Point Loma Nazarene
END OF THE ROAD
3/4/2009 8:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
SAN DIEGO, Calif. ? Alyson Haley gave California Baptist University a two-point lead, at 50-48 with 3:26 left in the game, but No. 6 Point Loma Nazarene closed the game, and the Lancers' season, with a 14-0 run.
Haley scored a team-high 15 points and grabbed 12 boards for her first career double-double in the 62-50 loss to the Sea Lions. It was the second time in three years that Point Loma Nazarene has ended CBU's season. The Lancers close out the 2009 season with a 17-13 record.
Nicole Davis and Jeanine Deno were the only other Lancers in double figures with Davis scoring 11 points and Deno scoring 10. Deno also had six assists.
The 2009 GSAC Player of the Year, Colleen Planeta, led the Sea Lions with 14 points as Point Loma doubled the Lancers' scoring in the paint, 28-14. The Lancers also committed 21 turnovers and the Sea Lions converted 24 points off of those turnovers.
CBU outshot Point Loma, going 38.2 percent from the field compared to 37.1 percent by the Sea Lions.
The Lancers trailed 13-7 early in the first half, but got a pair of 3-pointers from Brenna Hahn and Kendra Morris and two buckets from Davis to tie at 17 with 12:51 left in the first half. After Liah Ector gave Point Loma a 19-17 lead, CBU used a 9-0 run to take its largest lead of the game at 26-19 with 7:08 left in the half.
Point Loma used a 7-2 run to cut its deficit to 28-26 with 3:59 left, but Davis hit a pair of free throws to push the lead back to four at 30-26 with just over a minute to play in the half. Briana Colon answered back for the Sea Lions with a trey as CBU went into the locker room with a 30-29 lead at intermission.
The lead didn't change hands in the second half until Kaitlyn Trotter put PLNU up 44-42 with 10:52 left to play. Davis later tied the game at 48-48 before Haley gave the lead back to the Lancers with 3:26 to play at 50-48. That was the last bucket CBU scored before the Sea Lions scored 14 straight.
The game marks the end of the road for three seniors; Davis, Deno and Lisa Herbertson. Davis and Deno amassed 883 points of the Lancers' 2337 points scored this season. Davis was also the programs first NAIA All American first team and is a favorite to become a three-time NAIA All-American.
