Box Score BATESVILLE, Arkansas - Junior guard/forward
Natalya Kaza only needed 23 points to break the 1,000 points mark for her basketball career at Lyon College and she scored 33 points.
The basket that put her over the top came with 2:53 to go in the third quarter of the Scots 110-90 loss to Westminster College on Saturday afternoon at Becknell Gymnasium.
The Scots (7-12, 4-8) fell behind 25-21 after the first quarter and trailed 55-38 at halftime. Westminster led 86-66 after the third period and both teams scored 24 points each in the final quarter.
Along with Kaza,
Savanna Lopez had 28 points and 11 rebounds for a double-double,
Molly Mason scored nine points,
Dalye Hambelton had six points and eight assists,
Emily Walley scored five points,
Alexis Shelton had three points and six assists,
Haven Cooper had two points,
Savannah Stout scored two points and
Olivia Jones had two points.
Jewel Walley,
Izabel Soto and
Olivia Wallace played in the game, but did not score.
Westminster (14-5, 11-1) was led by Annette Ramirez with 36 points.
Lyon College shot 44 percent for the game and made 6-of-26 three-pointers and 10-of-15 free throws. The Scots scored 30 points in the paint, had 16 points off of turnovers, 19 second-chance points, 23 fast-break points and 11 bench points. The score was tied one time in the game at 17-17 and there were no lead changes.
Westminster jumped out to a 6-0 lead, but a basket by Cooper and two free throws from Shelton tied the game at 17-17 with 3:08 left in the first period. Westminster opened up a 25-17 lead until Lopez made two free throws and Mason scored on a layup to cut the lead to four points.
Kaza had a three-pointer in the first 10 minutes.
Westminster went on a 8-0 run early in the second period to go up by 12 points, 33-21 before Mason scored for Lyon College. Stout hit a jumper, Kaza scored inside, then Hambelton stopped another run by Westminster with a basket to make it 45-29 at the 3:49 mark. Kaza scored on a layup, Lopez hit a jumper, and made another jumper before Kaza scored to make it 53-37. Kaza completed a three-point play with a free throw.
Kaza had seven points in the second period and 10 for the first half.
In the third quarter, Kaza made a jump shot, Lopez scored, and
Emily Walley hit a three-pointer. Kaza scored on a jumper, Lopez put in a layup and Kaza made a three-pointer. She made another three-pointer a few seconds later and hit a jump shot at the 2:53 mark to break the record. Lopez scored,
Emily Walley had a jumper fall in and Shelton made a free throw to make it 86-66.
Kaza scored 14 points in the third quarter and had 24 points in the game by then and 1,001 points.
Mason made a three-pointer for Lyon in the fourth quarter, Jones scored inside and Kaza made a three-pointer. Kaza added a layup, Lopez scored, then Kaza made two free throws. Lopez made a jumper, and hit another jumper, then Hambelton scored to make it 105-86. Kaza scored on a layup and Lopez made a jumper to end the scoring.
Kaza added nine more points to finish with 33 and up her total 1,032 points for her career.
