SPEARFISH, S.D. – Black Hills State men’s basketball lost to Metro State, 84-83 in overtime Saturday night at the Donald E. Young Center.
The Yellow Jackets (3-5, 3-5 RMAC) forced overtime with a Joel Scott layup in the final second of regulation but couldn’t hang on in overtime.
Scott led the offense with a season-high 32 points, and his seven rebounds matched Kevin Senghore-Peterson and Adam Moussa for the team lead.
Senghore-Peterson added 17 points while Sindou Cisse totaled 14 along with four rebounds and a steal. Moussa grabbed two steals and dished four assists, while adding nine points on a trio of 3-pointers.
Metro State got out to an early 5-0 lead, but the Yellow Jackets would catch-up, and then go ahead 18-16 on a Scott trey at 10:28 in the first. The two teams would go back and forth the rest of the half, but the Roadrunners held the advantage, 33-28 heading into the locker room.
Five straight points from Scott out of the break and a Senghore-Peterson layup pulled BHSU back even at 35-35 with 17:35 left in regulation.
Cisse gave the Yellow Jackets the lead a few minutes later (14:59) with a layup to move ahead, 43-41 before Metro State quickly jumped back on top. Both teams battled down the stretch as BHSU was able to keep the game within striking distance.
Down four with 1:13 left, field goals from Cisse and Scott within the final 60 seconds tied the game at 71-all to sent it into overtime.
Overtime showed more of the same as the two teams stayed within three points most of the period. BHSU saw themselves down 80-73 before charging back to make it a one-point game, but the team couldn’t finish the comeback.
Meanwhile,in the women’s game:
With three double digit scorers and an all-around solid team effort the Yellow Jackets were able to overpower the Roadrunners in Spearfish 69-61.
The Roadrunners were able to strike first putting two points on the board at 9:23 however the Yellow Jackets responded quickly with a 3 pointer by Megan Engesser. The Yellow Jackets would not let up on the gas for the rest of the contest holding the lead for 36 of 40 total regulation minutes.
Throughout the first half Ashlee Beacom pushed the team stats recording three 3-pointers and 2 steals in the first two quarters of play. Going into the break the Yellow Jackets would hold a 35-42 lead.
Coming out of the half the Yellow Jackets would continue to play tough only allowing MSU Denver to put up 14 points in the 3rd quarter. However, the Jackets would hit a lull in their shooting and only score 11 of their own points setting the score at 53-49 Jackets heading into the final 10 minutes of regulation.
Three steals for the Yellow Jackets compared to MSU Denver’s zero and a plethora of free throws would give the Jackets everything they needed to walk away with the victory after scoring an additional 16 points in the 4th quarter compared to the Roadrunners 12.
Offensively Racquel Wientjes led the team in scoring putting up 16 points. She was followed closely behind by both Niki Van Wyk and Ashlee Beacom who ended the game with 10 points apiece. Beacom was also a standout defensively recording three steals during key moments of game play. Van Wyk led the team with rebounds pulling in six boards with Ashley Davis and Megan Engesser close behind recording four and five boards, respectively.
As a team the Yellow Jackets shot 38.9% from the field (21-of-54) and 31.6% from beyond the arc (6-of-19). At the charity stripe the team was successful shooting 84% (21-of-25).
