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MANKATO, Minn. - No. 25 Augustana rallied from a 15-point deficit and forced overtime on Minnesota State, but the effort fell short as the Mavericks snapped the Vikings' 10-game win streak with a 98-95 overtime victory Friday evening in Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference women's basketball.
Augustana, which hadn't lost a game since Dec. 17, drops to 16-4 (13-3 NSIC). MSU improves to 14-6 (10-6 NSIC).
Molly Hayes led both teams with a career- and game- high 33 points on 11 of 18 shooting. She drilled five 3-pointers in the game.
Alex Feeney was one board shy of a double-double, recording nine rebounds and 11 points.
Six Mavericks were in double-figure scoring and Jennie Noreen led the way with 20 points.
Faith Tinklenberg put the Vikings on the scoreboard at 19:23 and MSU then held the Vikings scoreless for more than two minutes before Tinklenberg dropped in another bucket to trail 12-4 at the 16 minute, 50 second mark.
The Mavericks continued to extend their lead throughout the first-half and held a 46-31 advantage with 3:41 remaining. The 15-point lead was MSU's largest of the evening.
Augustana used a 6-0 run in those final minutes to cut its deficit to 46-37 at half time.
The Mavericks didn't allow the Vikings to make a single 3-point shot in the opening 20 minutes and MSU limited Augustana to 35.0 percent (14-40) shooting from the floor.
MSU moved its lead to 57-46 with just more than 16 minutes left in the game before Augustana used a 10-3 run to cut the Mavericks' advantage to 61-56 at 11:28. Hayes netted seven points for the Vikings in their scoring burst.
Over the next five minutes MSU build another double-digit lead, but
Emily Bose connected on four free-throws during a 7-2 run that left the Vikings trailing just 77-72 with 4:44 remaining.
Hayes sunk a three-pointer at 1:48 that was immediately followed by another 3-point bucket from Feeney that brought the Vikings within one point of MSU, 82-81.
With nine seconds remaining, Hayes recorded a layup to keep the Vikings down only 86-85. She then hit a free-throw to knot the score and send the game into overtime.
Emily Schulte made two-free throws to allow Augustana to take its first lead of the game three seconds into overtime.
The Mavericks made a 3-pointer at 4:15 to take an 89-88 lead and kept it until Hayes knotted the score 95-95 with 1 minute, 40 seconds remaining.
MSU made three free throws for its 98-95 victory.
Augustana finished the game shooting 38.1 percent (32-84). MSU shot 43.5 percent (30-69).
The Vikings held a 9 to 3 advantage in steals and scored 20 points off turnovers.
Augustana is at Southwest Minnesota State tomorrow at 6 p.m.
