Mt. Olive, NC - The Lady Lions traveled to Mount Olive for a Conference Carolinas matchup with the Trojans.
Results:
- Emmanuel 65, Mount Olive 71 (OT)
- Emmanuel 3-5, 3-2 Conference Carolinas; Mount Olive 6-4, 3-1 Conference Carolinas
Summary:
First Period
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Abby Crawford sinks a 3 to put Emmanuel on the board first
- The Trojans jump to an early lead over the Lions up by 4 with 4:10 left to play in first period
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Sydney Wyatt drains a 3 to put the Lions up by 3 with 2 minutes left in the first period
- Lions lead by 5 at the end of the first period
Second Period
- Trojans come out hot putting up the first 3 points of the second period
- The Lions and the Trojans exchanged 10 difference lead changes
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Jeanetta Elder makes both free throw attempts with .03 seconds left in the second period to send the Lions into the half with a 3 point lead
Third Period
- Coming out of the locker room,
Sydney Wyatt banks a layup to put the Lions on the board first and give them their biggest lead of the game up by 5
- The Lions will go on a run and score the first 8 points of the third period
- Mackenzie Caldwell makes a layup with 13 seconds left in the third period to put the Lions up by 11 points headed into the final 10 minutes of regular play
Fourth Period
- The Trojans would open up the fourth period socring the first 4 points.
- The Trojans would continue with a hot hand as they go up by 1 with 3:25 left to play in the game
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Sydney Wyatt would make 1 of 2 free throw attemps with 30 seconds left in the game to secure a tie score and send the Lions into overtime
1st Overtime
- The Trojan would bank a layup the first opening seconds of OT play
- Jazmine Allen would answer the call with a layup 20 seconds later to tie the game with 4:25 left to play
- At 1:47 left to play, the Trojans would go on a scoring roll as they would score a total of 8 points to Emmanuel's 2 points to give them the win 71-65
Players of the game
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Jeanetta Elder led all scorers, scoring 21 points
- Jazmine Allen led all with 18 rebounds
The Lions will host Chowan on December 17th. The game is set to begin at 2:00pm.