Box score

OWENSBORO, Ky.- The UIndy women's basketball team (10-7, 5-4 GLVC) dropped a 66-60 decision at Kentucky Wesleyan Thursday night.  The home Panthers scored 20 points in the final six minutes to pass and hold off the visiting Greyhounds.

KWC (10-6, 4-5) snapped a five-game losing streak to Indianapolis.  The Panthers' aggressive defense allowed just 18 of the Greyhounds' 53 field goal attempts to fall, good for a season-low .340 percentage for the Hounds.

UIndy had a lengthy field goal drought to end both halves, including an eight-plus minute lull to end the game.

Kentucky Wesleyan led by five with 13 minutes to go, but UIndy used the next five minutes to turn the deficit into a six-point advantage.  Three more Greyhound free throws fell to push the lead the nine with just under seven minutes to go, but the Panthers outscored their guest 20-5 down the stretch to earn the win.

Early on, a three-point play from freshman Katy McIntosh broke an early 6-6 tie, as the Greyhounds led the majority of the first half.

The Hounds went without a field goal for the final five minutes of the half, however, allowing the Panthers back in the game.  A UIndy lead that once sat at nine was finally erased at the 1:25 mark when a KWC jumper gave the home team a 25-24 edge.

Despite the drought, the Greyhounds managed a 26-25 lead at the half.  The Hounds shot just 32 percent from the floor in the first 20 minutes, but used a perfect 6-for-6 effort from the line to help earn the single-point advantage.

The see-saw affair continued through the second half, as 11 lead changes occurred in the final period.  

The Greyhounds hit 12-of-14 free throws and committed just six after the break, but KWC nearly matched both statistics while putting together a very productive final five minutes to seize the “W”.

McIntosh matched her jersey number with a team-high 14 points to go with four rebounds and five assists.  Diana Jovanovic grabbed a UIndy season-high 12 rebounds, while Cayla Keegan and Katie Lyons each scored nine.

The loss did little to put a damper on the importance of Saturday's GLVC East showdown at Southern Indiana.  Indianapolis enters the weekend just a game behind division leaders USI and Northern Kentucky.


Note: Megan Gardner saw three minutes of action Thursday, her first of the season.  The Bishop Chatard grad played all in 34 games as a freshman in 2008-09 before injury and rehab abbreviated her sophomore season and cut into this one.