Winning Ways Continue vs. Eagles, Wildcats Escape With a 65-57 Victory

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STATESBORO, Ga. — Winning for the 12th straight time in the all-time series, the Davidson women's basketball team escaped Georgia Southern with a 65-57 win behind Ashley Lax's (Little Rock, Ark.) career-high tying 24 points at Hanner Fieldhouse on Saturday afternoon in Southern Conference play.

Lax finished 8-of-14 from the field, including canning four three-balls on her to matching her career-best in points. It marks the fourth time this year the sophomore has gone for 24, and her last five points proved to be the most important.

Leading 49-39 and seeming to have the game in control, Davidson (11-16, 10-8 SoCon) saw Georgia Southern rally by using a 10-2 run that cut the Wildcat lead down to two at 53-51 and 1:55 left on the clock. Samantha Williams sparked the rally with six straight points, and eight total points in the run.

Lax along with her backcourt teammate, Alex Thompson, answered with back-to-back three-pointers on the 'Cats next two possessions with under a minute left to break the Eagles' momentum. Lax then added two of Davidson's final six free throws with 27 seconds remaining to help the Wildcats take home a 65-57 road win.

Thompson joined Lax in double-digits with 15 points, 10 of them in the second half when Davidson held a led as big as 10 points. The Wildcats closed the half shooting 63.6 percent (14-22) and picked up their third game in a row shooting over 50 percent, nailing half of their field goals on the afternoon.

Davidson pulled even with GSU, which fell to 10-8 in league play and 15-12 overall, for fifth place in the SoCon standings with the win.

The Eagles had three players score in double figures, led by J'Lisia Ogburn's 15 points. The forward scored 16 last time out against Davidson. Also hitting the double-digit mark was the senior tandem of Ashley Rivens and Ashley Melson with an even 10 points apiece. The duo were honored before the game as part of GSU's Senior Day events.

Davidson used the three-ball early in the first half to grab a 12-5 lead after Lax, Monica Laune and Thompson all connected on treys in the first seven minutes of action. The 'Cats closed the game hitting 8-of-16 treys overall.

Lax continued to have the hot-hand from behind the arc, draining two more three-pointers in the half, including one at the 4:41 mark that broke up a 18-all tie.

GSU kept it close thanks to the inside play of Ogburn, who went for nine points through the first nine minutes of the half. She finished with 13 points in the first period, including her final bucket of the half at the 2:17 mark that gave the Eagles their first lead of the ball game at 24-23.

After another Lax three-pointer gave Davidson back the lead at 26-24, the Eagle's Jamie Navarro hit a driving layup and Krista Tate hit one-of-two free throws to close out the period for a 27-26 GSU lead going into intermission.

Lax's four treys gave her 64 on the year and she is just two away from setting the single-season school record held by Janna Magette with 65 during 2001-02 season.

For the game, Georgia Southern held a 39-36 advantage in rebounding, getting 21 of those boards on the offensive glass.

Davidson picked up its second season-series sweep with the win after earlier this year sweeping Elon.

The Wildcats head up to Charleston, S.C. for a Monday evening tip-off against College of Charleston at 7 p.m. The 'Cats are looking to avenge a 74-71 loss to the Cougars in the first meeting back on Jan. 12.

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