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Late Belmont Surge Dooms Racers in OVC Semifinal
3/5/2021 6:01:00 PM | Women's Basketball
Racers struggle offensively, Belmont capitalizes in the fourth
Cold shooting, a short bench and a big fourth quarter from Belmont led to Murray State's exit from the 2021 OVC Women's Basketball Championship with a 67-49 semifinal loss to the Bruins, Friday at the Ford Center in Evansville, Indiana.
The Racers came out of the gate hot outscoring the Bruins, 18-11, in the first quarter. However, in the second quarter, Belmont begin to whittle the lead away, eventually taking a one-point lead to the locker room at the break. The two teams then went back and forth in the third, before Tut Jones hit a 3-pointer for Belmont in the final seconds to give her team a 4-point lead headed to the fourth.
In the fourth, it all finally caught up with the Racers, as they went just 4-for-12 in the stanza. In addition, with two players lost last week due to injury, MSU simply had nothing left in the tank and was outscored 26-12 in the quarter on the way to the 18-point loss.
Macey Turley and Katelyn Young led MSU in the game with 11 points, while Turley added a career-high eight rebounds. Alexis Burpo finished with nine points and four rebounds, while Hannah McKay added four points and seven boards and Manna Mensah had six and eight.
The Racers end their season at 16-10 overall and 12-8 in the OVC, marking the first time since the 2008-09 season that MSU has posted a winning record in both overall and league play.
