Western Illinois 53, at Morehead State 63

HALDEMAN, Ky. (Interstat) — The Morehead State Eagles, leveraging a balanced offensive attack and a decisive fourth-quarter push, handed the Western Illinois Leathernecks just their third loss of the season with a 63-53 victory in an Ohio Valley Conference women’s basketball game Thursday night at E.T. Johnson Arena. In a matchup where the visiting Leathernecks were significant statistical favorites, the Eagles methodically built and maintained a lead, stifling Western Illinois’s attempts to rally and holding them to a season-low in points before an announced crowd of 817. The game’s pivotal stretch arrived late in the third quarter and bled into… Read more...