Senior guard Terrice Robinson completed a three-point play with six seconds left Monday (Nov. 18) to give the Morehead State women's basketball team a 53-51 road win at Marshall. The Eagles, who trailed by as much as 10 in the second half, improved to 3-2. Marshall fell to 1-2. Morehead State has now won the last two games it has played against Marshall on its home floor.
Robinson, the third-leading scorer in the Ohio Valley Conference, finished with a game-high 27 points. She hit all seven of her free-throws. Junior guard Almesha Jones totaled 10 points with a 6-for-6 night at the free-throw line. She secured a loose ball with 16 seconds left and called the Eagles' final timeout to set up Robinson's game-winning play.
The Thundering Herd built their largest lead of the night at 32-22 with 13:45 remaining, but MSU used an 11-1 run to cut it to 34-33 following a Casey Ryans' layup at 11:04. Marshall raced back out by 10 with a 9-0 spurt in the next three minutes, but the visitors answered again with a 12-1 flurry. Robinson's lay-in at the 4:39 mark gave MSU its first lead, 45-44.
A pair of free-throws by Marshall's Erica Scott gave her team its last lead, 51-50, with 1:04 left. Norrisha Victrum's running jumper at the final horn clanked off.
The Eagles managed to hit just 5-for-25 in the opening half but never trailed by more than seven. MSU trimmed it to three on two occasions late in the half, but Marshall scored the final four to take a seven-point cushion to halftime, 22-15.
Morehead State managed 54 percent efficiency (13-of-24) in the final half and limited the Thundering Herd to 33 percent (7-of-21). Marshall shot just 29 percent (14-of-49) for the night. The teams were 3-of-31 from three-point range.
Marshall out-rebounded the Eagles 46-25, including 19 offensive boards. AJ Johnson led the hosts squad with 11 points, while Leah Scott tallied 10.
Morehead State travels to East Tennessee State for a 4:45 p.m. ET contest on Thursday (Nov. 21). The game will be played in the Freedom Hall Civic Center in Johnson City, Tenn.
