ST. JOSEPH – It was far from easy, but Rob Edmisson earned his 500th win as a collegiate head coach when his Griffon women’s basketball team (7-1, 2-0) defeated Northeastern State (4-3, 1-1) Saturday afternoon in the MWSU Fieldhouse.

A tie game with 37 seconds left, the Griffons scored the final four points of the game on 4-of-4 shooting at the free throw line to secure a 64-60 victory. Northeastern State led by three with 9:09 to go, but the Griffons went on a 12-0 run that included two Savannah Lentz threes and four Northeastern State turnovers to open up a nine-point Griffon lead, 59-50. The RiverHawks answered with a 10-1 run that tied the game at 60. KeShara Scott made two free throws with 14 seconds left before a Northeastern State turnover. Brittany Atkins put the game away with two more free throws with six seconds left.

NOTABLES
– Edmisson moved to 500-161 in his 22nd year as a collegiate head coach. He is 96-53 at Missouri Western after going 212-31 at Oklahoma City and 192-89 at Hutchinson Community College.

– Lentz finished with a season and game-high 12 points. She was 4-6 from three-point range

– Atkins had 11 points, going 4-of-4 from the free throw line. She has made 18 consecutive shots from the line and is 39-of-42 on the season

– KeShara Scott led the Griffons with eight rebounds, the most in her brief Griffon career

– Erin Anderson led Missouri Western with five steals

– The Missouri Western defense limited Northeastern State to 27.3 percent field goal shooting in the fourth quarter after they had shot 46.2 in the first, 50 in the second and 37.5 in the third

– Missouri Western scored 21 points off RiverHawk turnovers while NSU scored two off five Griffon turnovers. Ten of NSU’s turnovers were steals by the Griffons

UP NEXT
Missouri Western plays the fifth of six-straight home games when the Griffons host Northwest Missouri (1-7, 0-2) on Wednesday, Dec. 6 for a 5:30 tip-off.

— MWSU Athletics —