ETSU ETSU 22-8,9-5 SoCon

Western Caro. WCU 9-20,2-12 SoCon

ETSU ETSU

22-8,9-5 SoCon

Final

Feb. 25, 2023

Western Caro. WCU

9-20,2-12 SoCon

Score By Periods
Team	1	2	3	4	OT 1	OT 2	F
ETSU ETSU	22	15	19	16	8	10	90
Western Caro. WCU	10	18	18	26	8	4	84

Summary
Box Score

Mark Haskett

Game Recap: Women's Basketball | 2/25/2023 11:12:00 PM | Denise Gideon, Director of Media Relations

Holliday Notches Double-Double in Double OT Loss to ETSU

Allison, Holliday and Reid honored on Senior Day

The Basics
Score: ETSU 90, Western Carolina 84 (2 OT)
Records: Western Carolina 9-20, 2-12 SoCon; ETSU, 22-8, 9-5 SoCon
Location: Ingles Court | Ramsey Center | Cullowhee, N.C.

CULLOWHEE, N.C. – Western Carolina women's basketball left it all on the court on Senior Day taking ETSU to double overtime before falling to the Buccaneers 90-84 Saturday on Ingles Court in the Ramsey Center.

Before the game Kyla Allison, Endia Holliday and Joi Reid were honored on Senior Day.

The Catamounts will be the No. 8 seed in the upcoming 2023 Ingles Southern Conference Basketball Championship presented by General Shale. Western Carolina will face No. 1 seed Wofford at 11 a.m. Thursday at Harrah's Cherokee Center in Asheville.

Turning Point:
With the game tied at 80 after the first overtime, ETSU outscored the Catamounts 10-4 in the final five minutes to clinch the win.

Individual Leaders

Senior Holliday went out in style playing her final game at home tying her career high in points (21) and ripping down a career-high 14 rebounds for a double-double. She was also 7-of-8 from the free throw line.
Fellow senior Allison scored a game-leading 23 points adding four assists.
Mya Love added 16 points and was 3-for-3 from the three-point line.
Junior Audrey Meyers tied her season-high with 11 points and dished out three assists.
ETSU's Nevaeh Brown led the Buccaneers with 21 points.

Inside the Box Score

Allison forced overtime when her desperation three-point shot, with 1.1 seconds remaining, swooshed into the net to knot the game at 72.
The Catamounts outscored the Bucs 26-16 in the fourth quarter overcoming a 13 point, 61-48, deficit with 7:34 remaining in the game.
In the final 3:26 in regulation, Western Carolina went on a 16-3 run to force overtime.
The Buccaneers returned the favor with a game-tying three-pointer at the end of the first overtime to force the second overtime.
Western Carolina shot 43.8 percent from the field while ETSU shot 46.7.
The Catamounts just edged the Bucs in rebounds ripping down 39 to ETSU's 34.
Each team connected on seven three-pointers in the contest.
Western Carolina turned the ball over 12 times as the Bucs turned that into 13 points.
ETSU was 27-of-40 from the free throw line while the Catamounts were 21-of-30.

News & Notes

The Catamounts scored a season-high 84 points.
Western Carolina played its first double overtime game of the season. It was the fourth overtime in the series against ETSU and first double overtime with the Bucs.
Allison scored 20-plus points for the fifth time this season.
Holliday scored 20-plus points for the first time this season.
Western Carolina had two 20-plus scorers in a game for the first time in the season.
Holliday notched her third double-double on the year and the fifth in her Catamount career.
Allison has scored 370 points this season the second-most since the 2019-20 season. The 370 points is also good for 24^th in the Catamount record books for the most points scored in a season.

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