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Sophomore Shamia Brown recorded her first double-double of the season with 17 points and 12 rebounds to lead the High Point University women's basketball team in a 76-68 loss to Longwood on Friday at the Millis Center. 

HPU drops to 4-6 with the loss while Longwood improves to 4-8.

“I thought the game was lost in the first 10 minutes, not the last five,” said head coach Tooey Loy. “Longwood came out with more intensity and focus than we did. The layoff and the week of exams looked like it wore on us. That is not an excuse because you have to be ready to play every time out. We just didn't have it tonight. You got to be ready to go every night and tonight we weren't.” 

With the game knotted up at 59-59 with just over four minutes remaining, the Lancers went on a 7-0 run to take its largest lead of the game, 66-59 with a little under three minutes remaining.

The Panthers managed to pull within three at 66-63 with just over two minutes left in the game but could not pull any closer as the Lancers outscored HPU 10-5 down the stretch to pick up the 76-68 win. 

High Point jumped out to an early 9-4 lead to start the game but the Lancers used an 11-3 run to take a 15-12 lead after the first ten minutes of play and the game settled into the back-and-forth battle between the two squads.

The Lancers held a three-point lead, 27-24, late in the first half when freshman Erin Reynolds pulled down a rebound and found Brown on a fast break for the lay-up. Brown was fouled on the shot and hit the free throw for an old-fashioned three-point play to tie the game at 27-27 with led then a minute in the half.

Longwood retook the lead with a short jumper, but Reynolds connected on a shot from just inside the three-point line on the right elbow with 12 seconds left in the half to send the teams into the locker rooms deadlocked at 29-29.

Brown scored 13 points in the first half and grabbed nine rebounds to lead High Point while Longwood's Crystal Smith led the Lancers with nine points at the break. 

Early in the second half, HPU took its first lead since 10 minutes left in the first half when junior Jurica Hargraves hit a three pointer from the left corner to give the Panthers a 32-31 lead. Longwood answered right back though with six straight points to jump ahead 37-32.

Still trailing by five, 42-37, junior Amy Dodd connected on a three pointer from the left corner and Brown hit a jumper inside the paint to tie the game at 42-42 with 14 minutes remaining in the game. The contest swung back and forth between the two squads over the next ten minutes with neither team able to establish a clear edge as the game was tied five separate times.

With its three-game homestand concluded, High Point will next travel to Gainesville, Fla., to play in the Gator Holiday Classic on Dec. 20-21. The Panthers will open the holiday tournament against William & Mary on Sunday, Dec. 20, at 4:30 before facing either the University of Florida or Southern University Monday, Dec. 21.