Duncan girls fall in OT to MacArthur

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Duncan’s Brooklyn Scott puts up a shot after switching hands mid-air Friday at MacArthur. Evan Grice/ The Duncan Banner

February 4, 2012

Greg Crews The Duncan Banner The Duncan Banner Sat Feb 04, 2012, 10:41 PM CST

LAWTON — Duncan’s seven-game win steak was on life support Friday night at Lawton MacArthur.

For a moment it looked like the streak was going to make a turnaround, but in the end, it didn’t pull through as the Lady Demons fell in overtime to the Lady Highlanders, 67-62.

“Maybe this is a good wake-up call for us,” Duncan coach Andrew McClung said. “We’ve been on a win streak and maybe we have been a little overconfident, like we didn’t have to work as hard. This could be the slap in the face that we need to get up and ready to play.”

The Lady Demons (14-7) trailed by four points with less than 2 minutes to play before back-to-back 3-pointers by senior guard Britton Scott put them ahead 53-51 with 50 seconds remaining.

MacArthur (9-8), though, hit its final four free throw attempts of regulation to tie the game at 55 with 26 seconds remaining. With 22 ticks left on the clock, Duncan called a timeout to draw up a play for their final shot – a shot that never went up. In the confusion of the final moments of regulation the Lady Demons were still holding the rock when the buzzer sounded.

“We never got a shot off and it was our own fault,” McClung said. “We just lost track of time and that kind of thing shouldn’t happen.”

With the game tied at 57 early in overtime, the Lady Highlanders pulled away for good with an 8-0 run, hitting 6-of-8 from the foul line in that span. In the fourth quarter and overtime periods alone, MacArthur shot 22 free throws. It was a fact not lost on McClung.

“(MacArthur) hit their shots and they hit their free throws,” he said. “I said coming in that they were going to shoot a lot of free throws and I was right.”

Britton Scott led Duncan with 23 points, while senior forward D’Shala Culberson had nine and senior guards Hannah Allen and Brooklyn Scott each had eight. Senior center Jamesia Milton tallied seven, senior guard Ashley Gonzalez had five and senior guard Dani Jo St. Clair added two.

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