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Game Notes

RICHMOND, Ky. – Eastern Kentucky’s women’s basketball team will play its final home game of the 2008-09 season on Saturday against rival Morehead State. Tip-off is scheduled for 4 p.m. The game is being sponsored by Delta Dental. The Lady Colonels (6-18, 3-12 OVC) will honor senior Ilona Muszak before the game.

The Eagles (15-12, 9-6 OVC) are coming off a last second win over Southeast Missouri State and are currently tied for fourth in the conference standings.

Jacksonville State defeated Austin Peay in overtime on Thursday to move a half game in front of EKU for the eighth and final spot in the OVC Tournament. JSU faces Tennessee State on Saturday and then concludes the regular season a week later at home against Tennessee Tech. After playing Morehead State, Eastern finishes off the regular season with road games at UT Martin and Murray State.

In their last game, the Lady Colonels used a late 12-2 run to get within seven, but Eastern Illinois held on for a 70-59 win last Saturday at McBrayer Arena. Freshman Kayla Drake led the Lady Colonels with 20 points.

Nadia Mossong recorded a double-double for EKU, scoring 14 points and grabbing 12 rebounds. EIU out-rebounds its opponents by six boards per game, but the Lady Colonels finished with a 45-40 rebounding advantage.

Drake was selected as the Ohio Valley Conference Freshman of the Week for the third straight week, and the sixth time this season, on Monday. In two games last week, the Kokomo, Ind., native averaged 16.5 points, five rebounds, 4.5 assists and 1.5 steals.

Eastern Kentucky leads the all-time series with Morehead State 39-36. The last meeting came on Jan. 24, with MSU winning 63-46 in Morehead. Morehead State has won five straight and six of the last seven meetings between the two schools.

In the last meeting between the two, Eastern shot 29 percent in the loss. The Lady Colonels were led by Muszak’s 18 points. Brittany Pittman contributed a double-double with 20 points and 13 rebounds for the Eagles. Mossong finished with 10 points and eight rebounds for EKU. Chynna Bozeman scored 20 points and dished out five assists for MSU.

Eastern shot 21.7 percent in the first half and finished 15-for-52 from the field and 6-of-25 from three-point range. After making 35.7 percent of its first half shots, MSU shot 60 percent in the second half.

Morehead State snapped a two-game losing streak with a 55-54 win at home over Southeast Missouri State on Saturday.

Freshman Courtney Lumpkin hit a 15-foot jumper as time expired. Trailing 54-53 with six seconds left, the Eagles pushed the ball up the court where Tiffany Hamilton launched a layup with two seconds left. Pittman deflected the rebound to Lumpkin who tossed it back in as the final horn sounded.

Bozeman led MSU with 25 points. No other Eagle scored more than eight points.

Morehead State is 2-3 in its last five games, with losses to Austin Peay, Tennessee Tech and Eastern Illinois.

Bozeman leads the team with an average of 16.1 points per game. Pittman averages 11.5 points, a team-best 10.1 rebounds and 5.6 blocks per game.