A Little English Gives USD Last-Second Victory

Christi English grabbed the rebound of a missed free throw, put it back up with six seconds remaining and scored to give USD a 71-70 women’s basketball victory over host Northern Arizona Saturday in Flagstaff.

It was USD’s fifth consecutive victory but also might have been its most difficult. The score was tied at halftime and several more times in the second half, including three times in the final three minutes.

USD was down with 30 seconds left when Debbie Warner erased a two-point USD lead and put Northern Arizona up by one by hitting a three-pointer.

USD then called a timeout and designed a play to get the ball in the hands of Candida Echevaria, USD’s leading scorer. But the Toreras couldn’t get the ball to her. It went instead to Molly Hunter, who went for the layup but was fouled on the way up. She missed both free throws, but English grabbed the rebound of the second shot and put it in to win the game.

Echeverria was USD’s leading scorer with 19 points. Chris Enger and Rochelle Lightner had 10 each.

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Tim Rapp led UC San Diego to a 74-69 victory over The Master’s College with 18 points in a game at UCSD.

Gordon McNeill and Tom Shawcroft scored 15 each for UCSD. McNeill’s 15 points all came in the first half; he played in foul trouble in the second half and was not a factor.

Jason Webster scored 15 for The Master’s.

UCSD improved to 6-2 while The Master’s College dropped to 8-6.

Christian Heritage snapped Cal Baptist’s five-game winning streak with an 81-66 victory at Grossmont College.

Christian Heritage (6-3, 4-1 in NAIA District 3) now has the most victories in District 3.

Christian Heritage had five players in double figures: Brad Soucie (20), Will Cunningham (16), Mark Kraatz (11), Rundy Foster (11) and Rob Meeter (11).

David Wilson scored a game-high 30 points to lead George Fox College (10-2) to a 90-86 victory over Point Loma Nazarene in the championship game of the Warner Pacific Tournament. Ron Hubbard led Point Loma (2-7) with 22.