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58
Longwood LWU 9-20,6-10 Big South
61
Winner High Point HP 19-10,14-2 Big South
Longwood LWU
9-20,6-10 Big South
58
Final
61
High Point HP
19-10,14-2 Big South
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 F
Longwood LWU 21 14 10 13 58
High Point HP 8 18 10 25 61
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Game Recap: Women's Basketball | | Nick Allen

High Point Victorious on Senior Night

HIGH POINT, N.C. - After trailing by as many as 15 points, the High Point women's basketball team came surging back to take down Longwood on senior night, 61-58. Lauren Bevis outscored the entire Longwood team in the fourth quarter, 16-13, on her way to a game-high 28 points on Saturday night.
 
Site: Qubein Center
Score: High Point 61, Longwood 58
Records: High Point (19-10, 14-2), Longwood (9-20, 6-10)
 
Head Coach Chelsea Banbury: "After a shaky start, thank goodness for Bukky today. She came in and gave us some great minutes. Looking at the stat sheet, she was +24 when she was in there and quite honestly she was the difference maker for us. She made a lot of plays, started to pressure them on defense, and then did a good job of sharing the ball… I think the last two games she has played the best that she has all year and it is good timing for that. Fortunately, we were able to get the win and make enough plays but we can not start like that in the tournament. We have to have stronger starts."
 
Prior to tip-off, High Point and the Qubein Center celebrated three of its seniors and their families on the court, Callie Scheier, Claire Wyatt and Amaria McNear, in their final regular season game.
 
After starting the game off 0-4 shooting from the court and going down by seven points, HPU recorded back-to-back baskets from Faith Price and Scheier.
 
Cydney Johnson drained a three-pointer from the top of the key to bring the Panthers within four points, 12-8.


 
High Point failed to record a point in the last 4:41 of the first quarter which resulted in Longwood leading at the end of the first quarter, 21-8.
 
With the shot clock running down early in the second quarter, Bevis connected on her first bucket of the game with a jumper right inside the three-point line.
 
Back-to-back three-pointers from Nakyah Terrell and Bevis, the team's third and fourth three-pointers of the game, cut HPU's deficit to within single-digit points, 25-17.


 
Bevis' hot hand continued as she nailed her third basket and second three-pointer of the quarter to cut Longwood's lead to five points, 31-26.


 
Longwood led at the end of the first half, 35-26.
 
Bevis led the way in scoring for the Panthers in the first half with a team-high eight points on 3-5 shooting from the court.
 
A tough drive and score from Bukky Akinsola ended an over six-minute scoring drought to bring Longwood's lead down, 41-30.


 
Akinsola gave the Panthers a big scoring boost as she scored the team's first six points of the third quarter.
 
"Bukky was huge. Offensively she did great but defensively she set the tone," Banbury said.
 
A Johnson deflection allowed Terrell to find an open Bevis up court for the easy layup, cutting Longwood's lead back down to single-digits, 43-34.


 
As the third-quarter came to a close, Bevis recorded a basket before the buzzer sounded as the Panthers trailed heading into the fourth quarter, 45-36.
 
Bevis kicked off the fourth quarter with her third triple of the game and sixth basket overall.
 
Terrell found Shakira Baskerville down low for the bucket as High Point started the quarter off on a 5-2 scoring run.
 
Bevis could not miss as she splashed a three-pointer from way beyond the arc to bring the Panthers within one possession, 47-44.


 
Bevis shifted momentum towards High Point's way as she knocked down her fifth three-pointer of the game and third in the fourth quarter to bring Longwood's lead down to two points, 53-51.
 
Not only was Bevis contributing on the offensive end but she was also hustling on the defensive end as well as she recorded her third block of the season.
 
Nevaeh Zavala bullied her way down low for a bucket to tie the game up at 53 with 4:10 remaining in the game.


 
The Panthers grabbed their first lead of the game, 55-53, after a Johnson up-and-under layup.


 
Bevis swished five straight free-throws to give High Point a two-point advantage, 60-58, with 1:46 remaining in the fourth quarter.
 
An Akinsola free-throw sealed the win and comeback for High Point, 61-58
 
The win in the final regular season game extended the Panthers winning-streak to 10 games heading into the Big South conference tournament as the No. 1 seed.
 
Bevis' phenomenal fourth quarter which included her outsourcing the entire Longwood team, 16-13, helped the Panthers come back from as many as 15 points down.
 
"Well once we are down and then we make it a close game, we know that nobody can hang with our energy so we wanted to keep pushing, we wanted to keep getting stops and that just gives us confidence," Bevis said.
 
Bevis finished the game with 28 points on 8-13 shooting from the court overall and 5-10 from beyond the arc which marks the eighth 20th point game and the 23rd time she has scored in double-figures this season.
 
"Once I see one go down, I feel like I can never miss. The girls gave me confidence, they were hyping me up, telling me to keep shooting the ball so I knew I needed to make some shots to get us going," Bevis said.
 
The 15-point comeback is the third time in program history that High Point has come back from a 10-point deficit to win.
 
Up Next: High Point will host the winner of the 8/9 seed game on Thursday, March 7 at 11:30 a.m. in the quarterfinals of the Big South conference tournament.

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