{"id":517312,"date":"2026-03-04T03:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T03:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/517312\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T03:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T03:49:08","slug":"womens-basketball-falls-to-west-georgia-in-overtime-in-opening-round-of-asun-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/517312\/","title":{"rendered":"Women’s Basketball Falls To West Georgia In Overtime In Opening Round Of ASUN Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"

JACKSONVILLE, Fla.\u00a0\u2013 North Florida Women’s Basketball fell to West Georgia 71-76 in overtime in the opening round of the ASUN Tournament at Swisher Gymnasium Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n

Redshirt junior guard Georgi Buzzetti<\/a> led UNF with a career-high 19 points on 6-12 from the field and 7-10 from the free throw line in 32 minutes.<\/p>\n

Junior guard\/forward Karyzma Pierre<\/a> would secure her first double-double and North Florida’s second double-double of the season with 11 points and 10 rebounds in 44 minutes.<\/p>\n

The Ospreys jumped out to an early 10-7 lead at the first quarter media timeout. Freshman guard Soraya Ogaldez<\/a> would convert on an and-one opportunity to help the Ospreys take a 15-12 lead into the second quarter.\u00a0<\/p>\n

West Georgia would fight back to grab an 18-17 lead. Junior guard Ellie Blatchford would sink a three to help North Florida regain the lead 24-23 at the 3:42 mark of the second quarter. An Ogaldez layup would give UNF a 29-26 lead at the half. Ogaldez and Pierre led the way offensively in the first half each securing eight points.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ogaldez posted her third game in double-figures with 10 points.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A three from redshirt sophomore Alexa Washington<\/a> helped North Florida take an eight-point advantage, 34-26, to begin the third quarter. The Wolves would cut the Osprey lead to just three, 37-34, at the third quarter media timeout.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A Washington three would give the Ospreys their first double-digit lead of the game, 48-38. UNF would take a 50-40 lead into the fourth quarter.\u00a0<\/p>\n

West Georgia would begin the fourth quarter on an 8-0 run to narrow the UNF lead to a single possession, 50-48. The Ospreys would answer back to push their lead back out to six, 54-48. A West Georgia three would tie the game at 59-59 with one minute remaining in the contests.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Washington would hit a layup to regain the lead 61-59 with 43 seconds remaining. A free throw from redshirt junior Buzzetti would make it 62-60 with 22 seconds remaining. West Georgia would hit a pair of free throws to tie the game, 62-62 and send the game to overtime.<\/p>\n

Washington would end the contest with 16 points on 6-7 from the field and 3-3 from three which marked her 11th game of the season with at least 10 points.<\/p>\n

West Georgia would start the overtime period on a 6-0 run to take a 68-62 lead. North Florida would cut the lead to one-possession 72-69 with one minute remaining, but West Georgia would hold onto the lead for the remainder of the overtime period.<\/p>\n

North Florida led West Georgia in paint points, 38-24 and bench points, 17-12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla.\u00a0\u2013 North Florida Women’s Basketball fell to West Georgia 71-76 in overtime in the opening round of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-517312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}