WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. – Junior Erica Lutz (Bernville, Pa./Hamburg) had a career-high 31 points and senior Morgan Mader (Cresco, Pa./Pocono Mountain East) had 20 thanks to a career-high tying six 3-pointers to lead the Lycoming College women's basketball team, but Arcadia University scored the last seven points in the overtime period to sneak out of Lamade Gym with an 80-77 MAC Commonwealth win on Saturday afternoon, Feb. 8.
 
Lutz hit 13-of-20 from the field and hit all five of her free throws to post her second 30-point effort of the season. Mader hit 6-of-13 from deep, extending her school record to 65 3-pointers made this year. Senior Akilah McFadden (Lewisburg, Pa./Lewisburg Area) added 15 points, five rebounds and two steals and junior Sydney Purcell (Carlisle, Pa./Carlisle) added six assists, two steals and four points.
 
Mader hit two 3-pointers to start the overtime period for the Warriors before Lutz knocked in a layup to make it 77-73 with 3:12 to play. Arcadia got a pair of free throws before Taylor Dunn hit a trey in rhythm to take a 78-77 lead with 1:52 left. The Warriors took three shots in the course of the next two minutes, but couldn't get one to fall, and Arcadia hit two free throws in the final five seconds to make up the final margin.
 
Down 13 at halftime, the Warriors came out of the break playing inspired defense, holding the Knights to eight points in the third quarter, getting within two points after a 3-pointer from Mader with 4:25 left in the period before Arcadia got the lead back to five entering the fourth quarter.
 
Lycoming started the fourth quarter on a 6-1 run to tie the game off a steal and layup from McFadden with 6:47 left. A 3-pointer from Mader gave Lycoming a 65-64 lead with 4:38 left, but Sydney Cyr countered with a three and Arcadia held a 69-65 lead with two minutes left. Sophomore Allison Wagner York, Pa./Central York) hit a second-chance layup with 1:32 left and Lutz tied the game at 69 with a turnaround layup with a minute left. Wagner picked up a steal on Arcadia's next possession, but Lycoming's final possession in regulation also ended in a steal.
 
The Knights got out to a hot start, shooting 65 percent (11-for-17) from the field in the first quarter, building an eight-point lead and shooting 57 percent (8-of-14) in the second to get the lead to 13 at the break, as Taylor Dunn led the Knights with 20 points in the half. The Warriors also shot well in the half, hitting 17-of-36 (47 percent) from the field, led by 17 points from Lutz and 11 from McFadden.
 
Taylor Dunn led the Knights with 25 points and six rebounds and Julia Makowski added 23 points, six rebounds and four assists. Taylor Fritz also added 10 points and two blocks.
 
The Warriors get back on the court on Wednesday, Feb. 12, when Alvernia University comes to Lamade Gym for an 8 p.m. MAC Commonwealth tilt.