SHAWNEE – Southern Nazarene's defense held Oklahoma Baptist to a 25-percent shooting mark during a 53-42 victory against the green and gold on Monday at the Noble Complex.
OBU fell to 12-12 and 8-10 in the Great American Conference with the result.
Mallory Lockhart led the way with 11 points while
Kennedy Large contributed nine in her first start of the season.
The Bison had the upper hand in the first quarter. In fact, they made 6-of-13 and used an 8-0 run to seize a 14-5 advantage with 1:41 left. Leading the way during that stretch was
Andreja Peciuraite who tallied four points. Additionally,
Melissa Southard and
Jaylin Stapleton contributed.
At the end of one, it was 14-7 OBU.
Second-quarter action was much tougher for the OBU offense. Southern Nazarene gave up just one made shot to OBU in the first 8:04. In that time, the Storm slowly crawled back to tie the game at 20 after a Cassandra Awatt pull-up jumper from the right elbow at 2:09.
By the end of the period, Awatt scored twice more while Emily Monaghan hit a three to give the visitors a 27-5 halftime advantage.
In the third, SNU pulled away. Following
Payton Taylor's swish from three-point range which made the tally 32-30, the Storm went on an 11-2 run.
During that stretch, four different Storm players scored. Two free throws by Georgia Adams with 43 ticks left moved SNU's lead to 43-32.
The fourth quarter saw the Bison fight back hard and pull the game to within six (48-42). That came with three minutes left after a Taylor free throw. However, the Bison would go scoreless after that, miss a pair of threes and commit two turnovers.
Next on the schedule for the Bison is a home date with Arkansas-Monticello on Feb. 17 at 5:30 p.m.
