Game Summary

MOORHEAD, Minn. — For the Saint Mary's University women's basketball team, memories have playing against Concordia have not been good of late.

Last year, the Cardinals traveled to Concordia for the opening round of the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference tournament and were eliminated by the Cobbers, 73-65.

In their first meeting this season, the Cobbers' Anne Keeley nailed a 3-point basket with 30 seconds left in overtime and SMU had two field goal attempts blocked in the waning seconds as Concordia escaped with a 77-76 overtime win.

Sunday afternoon, it was more heartbreak for the Cardinals, as Concordia rallied from an 11-point halftime deficit, and secured its third-straight win over SMU, 65-63, when Jamie Rattunde's (Rollingstone, Minn.) jumper at the buzzer failed to drop.

The Cardinals could do no wrong in the first half, shooting 53 percent from the field (18-for-34) and scoring the final six points of the half to take what seemed like a commanding 43-32 advantage into the locker room at the half.

In the second half, however, SMU could do no right, as Concordia scored 11 unanswered points to tie the game 43-43 with 17:07 remaining in regulation. The Cardinals grabbed a four-point, 58-54 lead on a three-pointer by Angie Arrington (Sprig Grove, Minn.), but the Cobbers responded with six of the next eight points to tie the game a final time, 60-60, with 1:57 left.

Over that final two minutes, the Cobbers reeled off five straight points to take a 65-60 lead, then hung on as Megan Moran (Burlington, Wis.) drilled a three-pointer and Arrington stole the inbound pass with 19 seconds remaining to give SMU one shot to send the game into overtime. The Cardinals got the ball to Rattunde — who scored a game-high 24 points and added 11 rebounds for her fifth double-double of the season — but the SMU senior's shot missed its mark.