Box Score The Wolf Pack will get a week off before playing three straight home conference games in The Den
MOUNT VERNON, Ga. – The 12th-ranked Loyola Wolf Pack suffered their first loss since Jan. 2 Thursday, falling to the Brewton-Parker Barons 76-69 in Mount Vernon, Georgia. The loss moves the Wolf Pack's record to 14-4 overall and 7-2 in Southern States Athletic Conference play.
Brewton-Parker started the game with back-to-back 3-pointers, as it shot 4-for-8 from beyond the arc in the quarter. Loyola did take an early 7-6 lead, but the Barons pushed ahead 11-7 a minute later. A 3-pointer by Paige Franckiewicz and another made shot by Kate Petrovic cut the Barons' lead to 13-12 seven minutes into the game. Brewton-Parker, however, closed the first quarter on a 7-2 run to bring the score to 20-14.
The Barons held the lead for the entire second quarter, extending it to as much as eight, 33-25, halfway through the frame. The Wolf Pack, though, closed out the half by scoring eight of the final 10 points to make it a 35-33 game with 20 minutes to play.
Loyola quickly took its first lead, 36-35, since midway through the first quarter after a Kaila Anthony 3-pointer early in the third quarter, then the two teams wrestled with the lead for most of the remainder of the game. Franckiewicz drilled back-to-back 3s to keep Loyola ahead 45-42, then a steal and score by Kennedy Hansberry two minutes later gave the Wolf Pack a 49-46 advantage. In all, there were five lead changes in the third, as the Wolf Pack ended the frame with a 50-48 lead.
Loyola held the lead through the first three and a half minutes of the fourth quarter, but the Barons regained the advantage 58-57 at the 6:30 mark. They pushed ahead by six points three minutes later, as the Wolf Pack couldn't find the equalizer. An Anthony 3-pointer with two minutes to play cut the deficit to two points, but Brewton-Parker made four free throws down the stretch to earn the win.
Loyola returns to The Den next week, playing host to Stillman College at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday.
Pack Facts
Kaila Anthony's 13 points helped her enter the Loyola record book's Top 10 for career points, as the senior now has 1,199 for her career. That puts her 10th all-time in the program's history.
Kamille Cooper recorded 10 rebounds Thursday, marking the fourth time this season she's had double-digit rebounds. Her career-high 14 boards came on Jan. 2 against Faulkner University.
Kennedy Hansberry tallied a career-high nine assists in the game, beating her career-best six assists she set last year and this season.
Paige Franckiewicz led the Wolf Pack for the fifth consecutive game with 17 points.
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