A terrific finish provided Oregon State with a positive outcome in the Beavers\u2019 West Coast Conference women\u2019s basketball opener Sunday.<\/p>\n
Jenna Villa and Kennedie Shuler combined for 43 points to lead OSU to a 74-65 road win at San Francisco.<\/p>\n
The Beavers (9-5, 1-0) outscored USF 15-6 during the final four minutes to pull away in a game that featured 10 ties and seven lead changes.<\/p>\n
Villa scored 24 points and Shuler 19, as each player hit 8 of 16 shots against the Dons. <\/p>\n
Aina Cargol scored 15 points to lead San Francisco (7-5, 0-1), which had four players in double figures.<\/p>\n
OSU\u2019s Nene Sow was the only player in the game with double digit rebounds with 10. Sow also had three of the Beavers\u2019 six blocked shots.<\/p>\n
Oregon State built a 39-29 halftime advantage, but San Francisco cut the lead to a single point halfway through the third quarter. <\/p>\n
OSU\u2019s Ally Schimel answered with back-to-back threes to put the Beavers up 50-43 with 4:05 left in the third.<\/p>\n
Both teams struggled to score in the closing minutes of the third quarter, and Oregon State took a 51-47 lead to the fourth.<\/p>\n
San Francisco fought to stay in the game. Meghan Mcintyre made two straight layups, and the Dons took a 54-52 lead with 7:12 left.<\/p>\n
Villa and Shuler took over with the game tied 59-59. The Beavers\u2019 junior duo combined to score the next six points, all from the free throw-line, to give OSU a 65-59 lead.<\/p>\n
With 1:59 left on the clock, Villa hit Shuler on a back-cut for a reverse layup that made the score 67-63. Then Shuler drove into the lane and banked in a layup while falling down for a 69-63 Beavers lead with 1:14 to go.<\/p>\n
Tiara Bolden iced the win for Oregon State by scoring five of her eight points, all from the free-throw line, during the final minute. <\/p>\n
Oregon State shot 47% to San Francisco\u2019s 39% and out rebounded the Dons 38-30.<\/p>\n
The Beavers continue conference play at 5 p.m. Tuesday at St. Mary\u2019s at Moraga, Calif.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A terrific finish provided Oregon State with a positive outcome in the Beavers\u2019 West Coast Conference women\u2019s basketball…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[4213,39891,101,103,102,104,106,105,30495],"class_list":["post-111830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-college-basketball","tag-oregon-state-basketball","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-womens-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}