ARKADELPHIA, Ark. – With the game tied at 71 with eight seconds remaining, Ouachita Baptist hit a lay-up at the buzzer to even the season series, 73-71. The Reddies defeated OBU by two earlier in the season inside the Duke Wells Center.
 
Karrington Whaley scored a team-high 22 points and 14 rebounds, seven of which came on the offensive end. Three other Reddies scored in double figures, as Ashley Farrar scored 13, Sonni Martin went for 12, and Lani Snowden tallied 11.
 
Nine of Snowden's 11 points came from beyond-the-arc as the Van Buren, Arkansas, native now has 201 career made three-pointers. She now joins Haleigh Henson and Hailey Estes as the only three Reddies in program history to make 200 or more three-pointers during their career.
 
The second edition of the Battle of the Ravine had seven ties and seven lead changes. Henderson maintained a lead for most of the first quarter as a Whaley bucket at the 8:21 mark of the opening period gave HSU the lead until early second quarter when OBU responded to a 23-20 deficit with a 9-0 run to seize a 29-23 lead.
 
Over the next two and a half minutes, the Reddies began to chip away at the lead as a 7-1 run, five of which came from Snowden, knotted the game up at 30-30. Neither team scored another point for the next two and half minutes a Gracie Raby lay-in ended the drought to break the deadlock, 32-30.
 
Over the final minutes and a half of the half, Whaley scored the final four points to put HSU ahead five at the break, 36-31. After shooting 5-of-8 (62.5%) from deep in the first quarter, in spite of Henderson mustering only one three out of five attempts in the second frame, the Reddies maintained the slight advantage.
 
The deep ball was not falling for Henderson in the second half as it only shot 2-10 (20%) from long range. With HSU keeping a five to eight-point lead throughout much of the third 10-minute stint, the Tigers cut the Reddie lead to three before a pair of free-throws from Whaley brought the lead back to five heading into the final quarter, 56-51.
 
Similarly to the start of the second stanza, OBU opened the final frame on a 10-0 run to flip the script on HSU and take hold of a five-point lead. Ouachita held the lead until the 3:41 mark when a Farrar lay-up put HSU back ahead, 65-64. The scoreboard stood at a tie three more times until, with 31 seconds remaining, both teams sat at 70 points.
 
A 1-for-2 trip at the free-throw line for OBU led to a 1-for-2 trip at the charity stripe for HSU's Sonni Martin. With the score once again tied at 71-71, the nation's leading scorer Aspen Thornton, with the entire gymnasium's eyes on her, found an open Claudia Vanzant under the goal for the game winning lay-up as time expired.
 
Henderson St. (13-9, 8-8) returns to the Duke Wells Center Thursday, Feb. 10 when the GAC-leading Southwestern Oklahoma State Bulldogs come to Arkadelphia for a 5:30 tip-off.