Peru State College Athletics

(Omaha, Neb.)- A strong fourth quarter performance would fall short as the Peru State College women's basketball team would fall 77-70 to non-conference Langston on Saturday morning.
 
The loss takes the Bobcats to 2-3 overall while the Lions rise to 2-1 on the season.
 
The first quarter would open with Peru State scoring five points in a nine-point stretch to hold a one-point lead (5-4) until a 10-2 run from Langston would take the lead and pull it to seven (14-7) with 4:28 left in the opening quarter. A 6-2 push from the Lions would bring the advantage to 11 (20-9) before the Bobcats would use a 7-2 series in the final minute of the quarter highlighted by an Erison Vonderschmidt (Falls City, Nebraska / Fall City Sacred Heart High School) layup through contact then sinking the free throw after to make the score 22-16 going into the second quarter.
 
A layup from Peru State would cut the lead to four to open the quarter (22-18) before Langston would find 10 unanswered to bring the lead to 14 points (32-18), After some back and forth, the Bobcats would score seven straight in the final 1:18 of play to make the score 42-34 going into the third.
 
A 9-2 run from the Lions over the first three minutes would see the lead extend to 15 (51-36) and after neither team could pull away in a 10-point series to make the score 56-41, Peru State would grind out a 10-6 series which saw seven points from Maile Hrabe (Smith Center, Kansas / Smith Center High School) to cut the lead to 11 with under a minute remaining in the third, until a layup in the final moments of the third quarter would pull the score to 64-51.
 
Both teams began trading blows in a 6-6 series over the first four minutes of the fourth quarter before the Bobcats would go on a streak of 11 straight points to cut the lead to two (70-68) with 3:56 left in the game, but that would be the closest Peru State would get as Langston would score seven straight points with five coming from free throws to pull the game out of reach, two more points for the Bobcats in the final minute would see the Lions take the win 77-70.
 
Offensively the Bobcats were paced by Hrabe who recorded 26 points from 8-16 shooting and going 7-8 from the line while Vonderschmidt would total 20 points from going 6-17 from the field and pacing the squad with nine rebounds, five steals and three blocks. MaKinley Tobey (Broken Bow, Nebraska / Broken Bow High School) would score 10 points to go with five rebounds and four assists while Lauryn Dusatko (O'Neill, Nebraska / Central Valley High School) would score nine points from going 4-9 from the field.
 
Peru State would record eight less turnovers than Langston (22-14) while recording three more points off of turnovers (18-15)
 
The Bobcats are back in action on Saturday, November 14^th where they will face off against Conference foe Missouri Valley at 2:00 PM in the AL Wheeler Activity Center.