RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. — Anissa Pounds netted 25 points and Fatima Adams added 20 and 10 rebounds as the Arkansas Tech women's basketball team got some revenge for a loss earlier this season, topping rival Harding 85-73 Thursday evening at Tucker Coliseum to move back into a tie for first place in the Great American Conference with one regular season game remaining.

The Golden Suns (20-5, 15-4 GAC) shot 52.7 percent from the field for the game, including 8-of-14 from 3-point range, and won the rebounding game 41-29 to record the 30th 20-win season in program history. Senior Jacinda Myers-Sanders added 13 points and seven rebounds in her final home game.

"I thought we played really well," coach Dave Wilbers said. "We played at a high level throughout, and our defense was outstanding. It was a good team effort. The difference in today's game was we had the inside-to-outside attack. We hit some 3-pointers, made some things down low, and had some shots in transition. It was a good balance."

The visiting Bisons (19-6, 15-4 GAC) led for much of the first six minutes of the game, going up by as much as four when they led 11-7 just over four minutes in after a pair of 3-pointers. They got the lead back out to four at 15-11 with 14:16 left in the opening half, but the Golden Suns took over from there, embarking on a 13-point run over a four-minute stretch that gave the hosts their second lead of the game and the only other one they would need.

Baskets from Katrina Hayden, Pounds and Mary Crow made it 24-15 with 11:09 left to play, and Tech would lead by double digits for much of the remaining time. A layup from Crow, who finished with eight points and four rebounds, gave her team the first double-digit lead of the game with 8:49 left in the half, and Adams' lay-in with 3:57 to go pushed the lead to 12 before Harding answered to make it 41-31, which would hold up going into the locker rooms.

A 7-2 run to open the second half pushed the Suns lead to 15 in the first two minutes, and a Hayden layup with 15:25 left in the game made it 56-39, the 17 points being the largest lead of the contest. The Bisons crawled back to within nine points at 61-52 with 9:58 to play, but a Myers-Sanders stick-back made it 11, and Tech scored seven of the next nine points to make it 72-56 with under seven minutes left.

Harding would get it the closest it was in 20 minutes of gameplay when a layup with 4:25 to play made it 72-64, but Pounds immediately answered with layup, and buried a triple a minute later to push the Suns ahead 13, and Tech converted on 8-of-10 free throws down the stretch to hold off any Bisons comeback.

Adams and Pounds combined to make 17-of-30 shots from the floor, 5-of-9 from deep and 6-of-6 from the line.

"Those two are elite players," Wilbers said. "Fatima is just giving us numbers every night with double-doubles, and Anissa can get shots, and she's added driving to the basket to her game too. I challenged some of our other players, and I thought some of them stepped up, maybe not in points, but on defense and in rebounding and assists."

The Golden Suns conclude their regular season with a roadtrip to Arkansas-Monticello for a 1 p.m. tip Saturday.