SEARCY, Ark. – Fatima Adams tied a season-high 33 points and recorded a season-high 17 rebounds, but the Arkansas Tech Golden Suns (19-3, 17-1 Great American Conference) dropped their first GAC game of the season in double overtime to Harding (15-7, 13-5 GAC) 82-79 Monday night at the Rhodes-Reaves Field House in Searcy.
 
 
HOW IT HAPPENED

• Both teams battled back and forth during the early portions of the first quarter, with Tech holding its last lead of the half when it took a 7-6 lead with 6:33 to go in the quarter on an Aujana Dawkins layup.
• The Lady Bisons took control of the rest of the half when they went on a 12-4 run over the next six minutes to grab an 18-11 lead with 35 seconds to go in the first quarter.
• The Golden Suns cut the Harding lead to 18-16 on an Adams layup with 7:55 to go in the second quarter. However, the Lady Bisons answered with an 11-4 run of their own to take their largest lead of the half at 29-20 with 4:55 remaining in the period.
• Tech made another run toward the end of the second quarter, going on a 10-4 run to end the half, sparked by a pair of three-pointers by Calli White and Kelsey McClure to go into the locker room down 33-30.
• Down by seven with 7:01 to go in the fourth quarter, the Golden Suns rallied on back-to-back three-pointers by Anissa Pounds to get the Harding lead down to one and took their first lead since the first quarter on an Adams fastbreak layup with 2:06 to go to make it 58-56.
• With two seconds remaining in regulation, Adams took a difficult fall-away jumper in the lane to tie the game and send the game into overtime.
• The Golden Suns had two opportunities to win the game in the first and second overtimes, but go-ahead three-pointers fell short on both of Tech's last possessions of the each extra session and Harding escaped with the 82-79 victory.

NOTABLES

• Adams' double-double was her ninth of the season and her 23rd of her career. Adams finished with 33 points on 14-of-28 shooting with a season-best 17 rebounds and a season-high six blocked shots and three steals.
• Pounds was the only other Golden Sun to score in double-figures, scoring 18 points on 6-of-9 shooting from the three-point arc.
• The Golden Suns committed 33 fouls to just 17 for the Lady Bisons and four Tech players fouled out and two others finished with four fouls.
• Tech shot 39-percent (29-of-74) from the field, 40-percent from three-point range (8-of-20), and 59-percent (13-of-22) from the charity stripe.

 
NEXT UP
Arkansas Tech will play three of the next four games at home, as the Golden Suns will return home to host Henderson State Thursday, Feb. 18 at 5:30 p.m.