HOUSTON – HBU freshman guard
Sophie Taylor nailed a three to tie the game with 3:45 left, but ULM finished with a 12-1 run to claim a 77-65 victory in non-conference basketball Wednesday night at Sharp Gym.
Taylor led the Huskies (2-7) with a career-high 14 points on 5-of-10 shooting, 2-for-5 from behind the arc. Freshman forward
Taylor Kollmorgen posted her second-straight double-double with 13 points, 12 rebounds and a pair of blocked shots. Sophomore guard
Lisa Zderadicka added 11 points, while freshman forward
Lauren Calver scored nine points, grabbed six rebounds, blocked three shots and came up with three steals.
Alexis Collins shot 11-for-16 from the floor and 11-for-12 from the free throw line to lead the Warhawks (3-8) with 33 points. Gabriella Cortez hit 3-for-8 from deep and finished with 15 points, while Stephanie Ratliff added 14 points and six rebounds.
ULM shot 44.6 percent from the field, 31.3 percent (5-for-16) from 3-point range and 22-for-25 from the free thrown line. HBU shot 39.3 percent from the field, 30.8 percent (4-for-13) from long distance and 13-for-16 from the stripe. The Warhawks outrebounded the Huskies, 37-35.
After falling behind by five early, HBU finished the first period with a 9-2 spurt to lead 15-13 after one. The Warhawks scored the first basket of the second, but the Huskies scored the next seven on a three-point play by Calver and a pair of layups by Taylor to lead 22-15. HBU led by as many as nine at 28-19 with 5:35 to go in the first half after a layup by Calver and a pair of free throws by freshman guard
Shannon Jones. ULM answered with a 13-2 run to briefly take the lead and the two teams went into the break tied, 33-33.
Taylor staked HBU to a five-point lead with a trey nearly midway through the third, but Cortez hit a triple and a layup by Ratliff tied it again. A pair of baskets in the final minute gave ULM a four-point lead, but Zderadicka drilled a three at the buzzer to cut the Huskies' deficit to one.
HBU regained the lead on a layup by Calver with 8:35 to go, but Kollmorgen's three-point play with 7:28 remaining put the Huskies ahead 57-55 and was the last time they would lead. Taylor's game-tying three was the ninth tie of the game and there were 13 lead changes. Collins scored nine of the Warhawks' 12 points over the last 1:50.
The Huskies will have a week off for Christmas before returning to action on the road against Arkansas Wednesday, Dec. 28 at 6 p.m. at Bud Walton Arena in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
