ARKADELPHIA, Ark. – Henderson State completed the season sweep of the Harding Lady Bisons Saturday afternoon inside the Duke Wells Center, 95-85. For the second straight game, HSU hit 11 threes, including nine in the first half. The Reddies close the 2021-22 regular season on a five-game winning streak.
 
Seniors Lani Snowden and Karrington Whaley showed out for Senior Day in front of the Reddie faithful, going for 25 and 17 points, respectively. Snowden went a white hot 5-for-6 from deep as she has hit 11 triples over the past two games. Whaley achieved her game total on 6-8 shooting and going 5-6 from the free-throw line.
 
With the Springdale, Arkansas, native seeing a field-goal percentage of 75% on the day, Whaley now has the program record for the best career field-goal percentage at 59.1%. The previous record was set back in 1996 by Marchelle Bonner (57.9%).
 
Ashley Farrar matched Snowden with 25 points on 7-12 shooting, 4-6 from deep, and a perfect 7-7 from the free-throw line. The Green Forest, Arkansas, native closes her season shooting 81.7% from the charity stripe, registering a Top-10 free-throw shooting season of anyone in HSU history.  
 
Yesterday's first half against Arkansas Tech, Henderson saw seven threes. Today, the Reddies knocked down nine treys through the opening 20 minutes to build a 51-31 lead going into the break. The game even started off similar, with the Lady Bisons claiming the first four points of the game before HSU proceeded to go on a massive 17-2 run to open a 17-6 lead.
 
Before the first 10 minutes were said and done, Henderson opened a double-digit lead, heading to the second period with the 27-17 advantage. Just over two minutes into the second stanza, five points was added to the lead, making the tally 34-19. Harding was able to get it back to within single digits before Snowden took the game over.
 
With the clock reading 5:16, the fifth-year senior from Van Buren, Arkansas, went on to score 11 of Henderson's next 16 points as the Reddies closed the opening half on a 16-5 run thanks to three treys from Snowden, plus a 2-for-2 trip at the charity stripe, a triple from Maci Mains and a lay-up from Sonni Martin to see a 51-31 opening-half triumph.
 
With everything falling in the first-half for HSU, Harding took a page out of the Reddies book, hitting 6-of-7 three-pointers, winning the third quarter, 35-19. With the Lady Bisons cutting into the deficit only to have Henderson come back throughout the first eight minutes, HU broke through with a 13-3 run in the final two minutes to put the outcome in jeopardy, 70-66 heading into the final period.
 
Harding was able to get the margin down to as low as two, 71-69, before seven straight points from Ashley Farrar coming from the free-throw line and beyond the arc pushed the lead back out to seven, 78-71. Free-throw shooting kept the Lady Bisons at bay the rest of the way, enabling HSU to build its lead back out to double digits, closing the season with the 95-85 victory.   
 
Henderson St. (18-10, 13-9) will head into the 2022 GAC Women's Basketball Championships as the number four seed and will face East Central as the five seed Friday, Mar. 4 at 5:45 p.m. in Shawnee, Oklahoma. The Reddies and Tigers split the regular season meetings.