SHAWNEE, Okla. – Four Lady Muleriders scored in double figures and Southern Arkansas manufactured a big second quarter offensively as they edged Oklahoma Baptist in the regular season finale for both schools on Saturday afternoon in a Great American Conference affair inside the Noble Complex.
 
RECORDS
Oklahoma Baptist Lady Bison (9-19, 6-16 GAC)
Southern Arkansas Lady Muleriders (6-20, 4-18 GAC)
 
HOW IT HAPPENED

• The Lady Muleriders led 16-13 after a first quarter that featured two tied scores and six lead changes. With 1:31 remaining in a back and forth opening quarter till that point, Anna Djedjemel knocked down a mid-range jumper to put the Lady Muleriders on top 14-13 and they would not trail for the remainder of the contest.
• The aforementioned big second quarter offensively saw Southern Arkansas push their lead to 16 with a lead of 44-28 at the intermission. SAU outscored Oklahoma Baptist 28-15 in the quarter. Seven Lady Muleriders got into the scoring act in the quarter led by seven points each from Makaila Jordan and Aaliyah Holmes.
• The Lady Bison surged in the second half outscoring Southern Arkansas, 43-30. The largest lead of the game for the Lady Muleriders came in the third quarter with 8:39 left as SAU had a 17-point advantage, 47-30.
• With 2:53 to play in the game, Oklahoma Baptist methodically cut their deficit to a bucket at 69-67, but a minute and a half later, Kimberly Crown scored inside to push the SAU lead back to four.
• OKB's Tasha Edge converted a pair of free throw attempts with seventy seconds remaining to again bring the Lady Bison to within a bucket of the lead, but it was a pair of free throws from Jordan and a single free throw by Jasmyn Eckerman in the game's final twenty-five seconds that preserved the victory for the Lady Muleriders.

 
FOR SOUTHERN ARKANSAS

• A pair of freshmen paced Southern Arkansas in scoring as Crown delivered 18 points, while finishing a rebound shy of a double-double with one block and a steal. Holmes followed with 17 points in a team-high 34 minutes.
• Eckerman followed with 11 points, four rebounds and two steals.
• Jordan scored ten points in her final collegiate game adding three rebounds, three assists and a steal.
• Djedjemel scored five points and collected five rebounds, three assists and a team-high three steals.
• Six players recorded a steal as the Lady Muleriders tied a game-high this season with 12 steals.

 
FOR THE OPPOSITION

• Tasha Edge led three players in double figures for the Lady Bison with 21 points and 13 rebounds in a double-double effort.
• Cameerah Graves followed with a dozen points and added five rebounds, two assists and a steal.
• Autumn Avina collected ten points, six rebounds, two assists and a steal. Katy Custer added nine rebounds.

 
OF NOTE

• The win snaps a nine-game losing streak for Southern Arkansas.
• The Lady Muleriders outscored OKB in the paint (34-28) and in points off of turnovers (23-18), while the Lady Bison won the battle for second chance points (19-10), including a 12-3 margin in the second half.
• SAU committed just 15 turnovers, while Oklahoma Baptist committed 21 turnovers. The Lady Bison outrebounded Southern Arkansas, 40-32, including 19-10 on the offensive glass.
• SAU's 74 points scored on Saturday afternoon are the second-most in a single-game this season as were its 23 successful free throw attempts (23-of-30 | 76.7%).
• Southern Arkansas shot 45.3% (24-of-53) in the game and OKB took 11 more attempts as they shot 37.5% (24-of-64) from the floor including an 18.2% mark from three-point range (6-of-33). OKB missed just two free throws; posting a 89.5% (17-of-19) mark from the charity stripe.