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Photo courtesy of Liza Safford.
65
Southern Oregon SOU 17-3, 8-3 CCC
77
Winner Eastern Oregon EOU 17-5, 9-2 CCC
Southern Oregon SOU
17-3, 8-3 CCC
65
Final
77
Eastern Oregon EOU
17-5, 9-2 CCC
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 OT 1 F
Southern Oregon SOU 26 33 6 65
Eastern Oregon EOU 33 26 18 77

Game Recap: Women's Basketball | | SOU Sports Information

Mountaineers top SOU in overtime to take over first place

LA GRANDE – For the second time this season, the Eastern Oregon Mountaineers let the Southern Oregon women's basketball team back into a game that they controlled.

This time, however, the Mountaineers still had some fight left after the 12th-ranked Raiders made their move. EOU coughed up a 13-point lead in the second half Saturday at Quinn Coliseum but scored eight of the first 10 points in overtime, prevailing 77-65 to take sole possession of first place in the Cascade Conference standings.

Freshman guard Maya Ah You scored 31 points to lead the Mountaineers, who improved to 17-5 overall and 9-2 in the CCC. Ah You previously scored a season-high 22 in EOU's 90-82 loss at SOU on Dec. 19 – a game the Raiders trailed by nine points with 10 minutes to go – and hadn't tallied more than 16 in any other contest.

The Raiders (17-3, 8-3) were led by Ashley Claussen (Scotts Valley, Calif./Santa Cruz)'s 20 points, seven assists and five rebounds. Alexi Smith (Bakersfield, Calif./Stockdale) had 13 points and 11 rebounds for her sixth double-double of the season, and Carly Meister (Elma, Wash./Elma) added 10 points and eight rebounds.

SOU had an early 10-4 lead when Ah You came off the bench to score 13 points during a 20-4 run that sent the Mountaineers on their way to a 33-26 halftime lead.

EOU was up 35-31 before Ah You came in and drained two of her five 3-pointers consecutively, sparking a run that made it 51-38. It was 53-42 at the 10-minute mark when EOU went scoreless for four minutes and allowed the Raiders to crawl back into it.

Claussen made a couple 3-pointers during the surge, and Meister's jumper gave SOU a 56-55 lead with 5:39 to play, but it got quiet after that. Ah You and Meister traded buckets before the teams held at 59-all for the final two minutes of regulation, with SOU missing a couple tries from downtown on the final possession.

The Raiders went 1-for-8 from the field in overtime. A Maloree Moss jumper and Jordan Klebaum's 3-pointer got EOU started. Klebaum's 3 with 47 seconds remaining sealed the win, making it 73-65.

Klebaum and Madeline Laan finished with 12 points apiece for the Mountaineers, who forced 26 Raider turnovers.

SOU won at EOU in the semifinals of last season's conference tournament, but has lost six straight regular season games in La Grande.

The Raiders, who had their five-game win streak snapped, return home next weekend for games against Corban and Northwest Christian.
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