Greyhounds Catch Up in OT, End Pacers' Season in ECAC Quarterfinals
Maggie Presnal tabbed the fifth double-double of the season

Greyhounds Catch Up in OT, End Pacers' Season in ECAC Quarterfinals

Women's Basketball - 3/4/2015 9:32:00 PM

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Bethlehem, PA – Sixth-seeded Marywood University women's basketball team's season came to close in a 64-59 overtime loss to No. 4 Moravian College in the ECAC Division III South Region tournament quarterfinal. The Pacers finish their season with a 16-11 record.

Maggie Presnal produced her fifth double-double of the season with 13 points and 15 rebounds. Playing in her final collegiate game of her career, Maddie Lavery came a block shy of trying the school record with six. Lavery neared a double-double herself with 12 points and eight rebounds.

Alexa Gerchman tallied a season- and career-best nine assists in addition to seven rebounds.

Moravian advances to face No. 1 seed Albright College Saturday in the ECAC semifinal. In other games played, No. 2 Lebanon Valley College defeated seventh-ranked Delaware Valley College, 71-52. Third-seeded Waynesburg University, initially slated to play Marywood prior to winter weather forcing a rescheduling, fell to rival Washington & Jefferson College, 86-61. The Presidents face the Flying Dutchmen in the other semifinal.

Marywood let a 12-point lead with 11:49 remaining in the second fall to the wayside. Lavery grew the Pacers lead to 41-29 following a defensive rebound and a jump shot. The Greyhounds answered with a 14-1 run over the next 5:15 to take a one-point lead on an Alesha Marcks' free throw. Moravian had a two-point lead with two minutes remaining, but Kimmy Green grabbed an offensive board and a put back to even things at 53 apiece. Lavery blocked one of her six at the buzzer to send the game to overtime.

The Pacers scored the first four points of the overtime period. An old-fashioned three-point play from Trista Cunningham put Moravian within one. Samantha Caligiuri gave the Hounds the lead for good with two free throws. Alexis Wright put up another two points with a layup. Marywood did not make a field goal for the final four minutes of overtime, missing all five attempts in addition to three missed free throws.

It marks the Pacers' first overtime game since losing to top-seeded Gwynedd Mercy University 82-78 in two extra time periods in the Colonial States Athletic Conference semifinal in 2012. 
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