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RICHMOND, Ky. – Eastern Kentucky will try to end its two-game home stand with a win over Jacksonville State on Saturday. Tip-off at McBrayer Arena is scheduled for 4 p.m.

The game will air live in the Richmond area on WEKY 1340 AM, and can be heard worldwide on EKUSports.com.

The Lady Colonels (10-12, 6-6 OVC) snapped a six-game conference losing skid with a 61-60 victory over Tennessee Tech at home on Thursday. EKU overcame a four-point deficit in the final 47 seconds. Freshman Shakeyia Colyer put the home team up by one on a driving lay-up with 18 seconds left and senior Colette Cole swiped the ball away from a driving Tacarra Hayes with five seconds to go to help the Lady Colonels escape with a win.

Colyer led EKU with a career-best 17 points. She also had four rebounds and only turned the ball over twice in 36 minutes on the court. Alex Jones added 15 points and five boards. Sarah Fraser-Jones finished with a career-high 10 points, five assists and five rebounds.

This is the 17th meeting between Eastern Kentucky and Jacksonville State. EKU leads the all-time series 13-3. The Lady Colonels are 7-0 all-time against JSU in Richmond. Eastern has won six of the last seven meetings between the two.

In the first game of the season between the two teams, Eastern Kentucky shot 56.1 percent in a 79-67 road victory on Jan. 7. Former Lady Colonel Talisha Davis scored a season-high 29 points. Jones finished with 23 points.

EKU built an 18-point second half lead before the Lady Colonels relaxed defensively and allowed the Gamecocks to close the gap to six with 2:50 left in the game. Davis went 6-for-6 from the free throw line in the final minute to hold off the JSU rally. Eastern Kentucky shot 64 percent in the second half and finished the game 32-for-57 from the field. The Lady Colonels made 40 percent of their shots from behind the three-point arc. After holding the Gamecocks to 35.7 percent shooting in the first half, and 12.5 percent from deep, EKU allowed the home squad to shoot 53.1 percent in the second half. Jacksonville State hit on 36.4 percent from three-point range in the second stanza.

Jacksonville State enters Saturday’s game on a four-game losing skid. After winning two straight over UT Martin on the road and Tennessee State at home, the Gamecocks lost three straight at home to Austin Peay, Southeast Missouri and Eastern Illinois before falling at Morehead State on Thursday.

Sophomore post Brittany Wiley leads the team in scoring (9.0 ppg) and rebounding (5.1 rpg). Freshman guard Karisma Boykin is second on the team in scoring (8.9 ppg) and leads the team with an average of 2.9 assists per game.

JSU doesn’t have a player that averages in double figures in scoring, but five Gamecocks contribute seven points or more per game. Jacksonville State ranks seventh, one spot above EKU, in the OVC in scoring at 57.2 points per game.

The Gamecocks do a good job of protecting the ball and they do not foul much. JSU ranks 87th in the nation with 16.6 turnovers per game. The team commits just 15.2 fouls per game, 39th best in the nation.

Sophomore Destiny Lane led JSU with 16 points and seven rebounds in an 80-53 loss at Morehead State on Thursday. Boykin added 14 points and five assists. MSU made 17-of-31 three-point attempts and out-rebounded the Gamecocks by eight.