Lady Barons Land Short in 77-75 Loss to Blue Mountain

MOUNT VERNON, Ga. – Brewton-Parker Women’s Basketball action resumed on Thursday night with another SSAC matchup against Blue Mountain (Miss.) in Gillis Gym.

The Lady Barons (9-6, 3-4 SSAC) landed short against the Toppers (8-7, 2-4) with second-half misfortunes.

“Blue Mountain outplayed us as well as outcoached us,” Head Coach Steve Edwards said. “They deserve a lot of credit for the way they played tonight.

“We weren’t ready to play in the second half and that is on me,” Edwards added. “We need to bring consistent effort each night to win in our league. We will be better moving forward.”

How It Happened

After an opening back-and-forth, Brewton-Parker opened the game with an early four-point lead. Blue Mountain managed to pull back the deficit and claim their first lead of the game at the 6:13 mark of the first quarter. The next few minutes included both teams trading scores and flipping leads. BPC jumped to a three-point lead with 3:53 to play before BMC answered with a three-pointer to level at 12-12.

Shortly after, the Lady Barons moved to a six-point lead, leaving 1:36 on the clock. The quarter closed with a bucket from Brewton-Parker and a last chance score from Blue Mountain to make BPC’s lead 20-16 after the first 10 minutes of play.

Brewton-Parker gathered back-to-back buckets to open the second quarter, advancing the lead to eight points. Blue Mountain knocked down the deficit back to four points before BPC went on a 11-5 run, pulling away to a double-digit lead with four minutes to play in the half. Brewton-Parker closed out the half with a 46-33 lead. The Lady Barons outscored the Toppers 26-17 in the second quarter.

The tables began to turn early in the second half as Blue Mountain started finding a rhythm on the scoring front. The Toppers began chipping away at the deficit with six minutes to play. BMC went on a 13-2 run in roughly three minutes of action, pulling the deficit down to just one point. Brewton-Parker was able to recover from some of the damage in the final minutes of the quarter, closing out with a seven-point lead.

In the opening four minutes of the fourth quarter, Blue Mountain went on an 11-2 run to reclaim the lead with six minutes left to play. BPC answered with a jumper to level the game, but BMC was able to respond to regather the lead. The Lady Barons managed to level the game once more at 67-67 but landed short in the comeback efforts.

Blue Mountain closed out the fourth quarter, outscoring Brewton-Parker 10-8 in the final three minutes of play. The Lady Barons had several chances of leveling or even reclaiming the lead but were unfortunate with the results as the Toppers held on for the 77-75 win.

Inside The Statistics

Angel McRae was the lone BPC student-athlete with double-digit points with 15 while the trio of Keonya Mincey, Madison Evans, and Tajah’nae Wiggins notched nine points apiece.
Wiggins also led the rebounding efforts with 10 boards on the night. The Lady Barons were able to outrebound the Toppers 48-41.
Evans also led the BPC offense with six assists on the night.
As a team, Brewton-Parker shot for 39.5% (32-of-81) from the field, 13.6% (3-of-22) from three, and 47.1% (8-of-17) from the free-throw line.

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