Lady Yellowjackets Battle for Overtime Win over Cross-town Rivals (Dec. 1, 2003)
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BILLINGS, MT – Alisa Lordemann scored five of the Yellowjackets’ seven points in overtime Monday night as MSU Billings downed Rocky Mountain College 60-55 in overtime.  Lordemann finished the game with 13 points, including the Lady Jackets’ only 3-pointer of the game.  That crucial basket from the right corner came a minute and a half into the overtime, breaking a 53-53 tie.

There were seven ties in regulation with the seventh forced by Rocky’s Amber Griffith with 19 seconds remaining.  The Bears led 51-48 with less than two minutes on the clock, but Tanya Petersen scored in the lane with 1:30 remaining and was fouled by Rocky’s Mandy Norby.  Petersen sank the free throw, her only attempt from the line in the game, to tie the game at 51. 

Sophia Forney, who finished with a game-high 17 points, gave the Jackets a 53-51 lead with 38 seconds left on the clock, but MSUB gave up Griffith’s basket to force the extra period.  Griffith scored a team-high 15 on 6-of-10 shooting from the field.

After Lordemann’s 3-pointer—MSUB’s only make in 20 attempts—gave the Yellowjackets a 56-53 lead in the overtime period, Forney extended the lead to 58-53 on the next possession.  Rocky took a timeout at 2:33 trailing by five, but turned the ball over out of the timeout.  Norby made it a one-possession game at the 47 second mark, drawing the Bears to within 58-55, but Lordemann iced the game with her jumper from the left baseline on the next possession.

MSU Billings is now 52-14 all time against Rocky and has won the last eight in a row.  The last time the Yellowjackets lost to the Bears was January 9, 1995, and they haven’t lost to Rocky at Alterowitz since 1980.

Junior center Robyn Milne notched her fourth double-double of the season with a dozen points and a dozen rebounds despite playing only ten minutes in the second half.  Petersen narrowly missed the double-double with nine points and a career-high 13 rebounds.  She also had a career-high three blocked shots.

Only three other Yellowjackets scored in the game and MSUB shot an icy 34-percent from the field.  Jennifer Skrifvars was 2-for-3 from the field for four points, Jenny Langford added three points while shooting 0-of-9 from 3-point range, and Jessica Bratton scored one basket for two points.  It was Bratton’s first game as a Yellowjacket basketball player.  The freshman from Casper, Wyo., was one of the Jackets’ top volleyball players this fall.

Along with Amber Griffith’s 15 points, Ashley Griffith scored 14 to lead the Bears.  Both were 1-of-4 from 3-point range.  Norby added nine points for Rocky, which dropped to 6-5.

The Yellowjackets, now 3-2, will try to break their win-one lose-one pattern when they play at Montana on Thursday.  It will be a tall order as the Grizzlies are 3-1 with their only loss coming to the second-ranked Texas Longhorns in the Wahine Classic championship game in Hawaii last weekend.  The game will be broadcast live on News Radio AM 970 KBUL and on the internet at www.msubillings.edu/athletics.

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