Game Summary

WINONA, Minn. — Dan Messmann knew the outcome to Sunday's game against Concordia was going to come down to how much gas his Saint Mary's University women's basketball team had left in the tank.

After all, the Cardinals were coming off a hard-fought 82-69 win over Macalester just 24 hours earlier, and their up-tempo style isn't accustomed to back-to-back games.

Unfortunately for Messmann, the Cardinals' tank hit empty just short of the filling station, as Concordia escaped with a 66-65 victory at the SMU gym.

After falling behind by as many as 10 in the second half, the Cardinals cut the Cobbers' lead to three, 64-61 with four minutes remaining, got to within one on Ashley Luehmann's (Lewiston, Minn.) layup with two minutes to go, and took their first lead of the second half on a pair of Beth Walch (Altura, Minn.) free throws with 1:06 remaining.

Concordia's Jamie Stensgard hit the front end of a double-bonus to tie the game at 65-65, and after a Walch miss, Kasey Bostow hit one of two free throws to give the Cobbers the lead for good. Jaimie Lee (Eden Prairie, Minn.) had a chance to win it for the Cardinals, but her 3-pointer with two seconds remaining hit the rim and bounced out. SMU fouled with 1.6 seconds left and Concordia's Trisha Steinborn missed a pair of free throws, but SMU could not get the ball up court as the buzzer sounded.

While the rest of her Cobber teammates were struggling to hit consecutive free throws, Concordia sophomore Jamie Visness was a perfect 4-for-4, with her third free throw breaking the all-time, all-division record for consecutive made free throws. Visness has now made 68 straight free throws, eclipsing the old mark set by Richmond's Ginny Doyle.

Luehmann finished with a team-high 15 points for the Cardinals, who fall to 9-10 in the MIAC and 9-13 overall. Lee and Walch also finished in double figures for SMU, scoring 12 and 10 points, respectively.

Bostow netted a game-high 19 points to lead four Cobbers in double figures.