Box Score GEORGETOWN, Ky. -- Ashley Rainey poured in a game-high 26 points and eight rebounds and Viktoria Krell added 13 points - all in the second half - to push the 13th ranked Lindsey Wilson College women's basketball team past Georgetown (Ky.) College 83-76 on Saturday in Davis-Reid Alumni Gym.
Sophomore Sarah Gillis added a career-high 11 points on three 3-pointers and seniors Diondra Anthony and Bethany Spillman both got into double figures with 10 points each.
Kourtney Tyra paced the Tigers with 22 points, while Mandi Boykin and Devon Golden each added 12 points. It was a season-high total for Golden.
Leading 76-74 with just over 30 seconds to play, Lindsey Wilson got a pass from Gillis into Krell for the easy layup to make it a two-possession game with not much time left for the Tigers to operate.
All Georgetown would come up with the rest of the way was a layup by Tyra, but Lindsey Wilson hit its free throws down the stretch to come away with the seven-point win.
Through first-half play Georgetown looked nothing like a team with a losing record that struggles to shoot from the field. The Tigers shot 50.0 percent from the field and 40.0 percent from behind the arc to build a 41-29 halftime lead on the Blue Raiders.
Lindsey Wilson couldn't get any momentum going through the first 20 minutes, shooting a dismal 33.3 percent from the field and even lower mark of 18.2 percent on threes.
Krell - a game removed from scoring 28 points at Shawnee State (Ohio) University - never got on the scoreboard in the first half, pulling down three rebounds as her only contribution.
Using an 18-5 run to start the second half, the Blue Raiders went on top for the first time in the game not even six minutes through the half. Rainey was the catalyst for the comeback which made it a bad loss when she picked up her fourth foul with 13 minutes to play in the game.
With Rainey out the Blue Raiders held strong, taking a 64-60 lead on a pair of Krell free throws with 7:44 to play.
Then Georgetown went on a 5-0 run of its own, putting the Tigers back up, but it was a back-and-forth trend that saw the Blue Raiders regain the lead on a pair of tough layups by Anthony and Rainey. It was obvious this was a game that would go down to the wire.
The Tigers finished the game shooting 44.6 percent from the field and 27.3 percent from behind the arc. Lindsey Wilson shot 45.0 percent from the field and 36.8 percent from the 3-point line. The Blue Raiders were edged on the glass for just the third time this season 39-38.
Lindsey Wilson returns to action at 6 p.m. CT on Thursday, Jan. 20 against Campbellsville (Ky.) University in Biggers Sports Center.