CLEVELAND, Miss. – An untimely scoring drought late in the fourth quarter by the Arkansas Tech women's basketball team proved to be too much to overcome on the road at Delta State as the Golden Suns fell by a score of 65-58.
Trailing by as much as seven points in the first quarter, the Golden Suns stormed back and ended the opening period with a four-point lead, 20-16. The Suns then pushed their lead out as high seven points themselves in the second quarter, but went into the locker room trailing by a point after a three-pointer by
Katie Fimple.
The third quarter was closely played with neither team leading by more than four points. The lead also changed hands twice with the last such instance going in favor of the Lady Statesmen at the 3:54 mark of the period.
The fourth quarter played out similarly through the first five minutes of action.
After managing to tie the score twice, the Golden Suns took a 56-54 lead at the 4:43 mark of the quarter on a pair of made free throws from
Ari Gordon. Unfortunately, the next points the Golden Suns would score came with 1:13 left on the clock.
In the meantime, Delta State scored 11 unanswered points to go up by nine and secure the victory.
The Golden Suns were led in scoring by Gordon as she scored 14 points on 4-of-8 shooting from the floor. She was also 6-of-7 from the free throw line. Eight other players scored for Tech in the game.
The Golden Suns will now prepare to go on the road on Wednesday and play at preseason-ranked No. 6 Texas Woman's. Tip-off for the game is scheduled for 6 p.m. in Denton, Texas.
