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THE RUNDOWN
SAN ANTONIO, Texas – St. Mary's pulled away in the fourth quarter to take 59-52 win over St. Edward's Wednesday at Bill Greehey Arena in Heartland Conference action. Arysia Porter's 23 points led the Rattlers (10-11, 4-4) and forced a regular-season split with SEU (9-10, 3-4) for the third-straight season.
 
SEU led 39-38 at the end of three quarters, and the score was tied at 46 with 4:41 remaining in the fourth. However, the Rattlers Tia Mason scored seven unanswered points for the home team to give St. Mary's a seven-point lead.
 
The Hilltoppers chipped away at the deficit and cut it to four at 54-50 with a LEXI CUNNINGHAM layup. ISABEL HERNANDEZ stole the inbounds pass from the Rattlers but SEU was whistled for traveling, which nixed the Hilltoppers' rally.
 
BAILEY HILL scored 14 points and hit all three attempts from 3-point land in the loss for SEU. Cunningham scored 10 and GRETA KAIRYTE had a career-high nine off the bench.
 
HIGHLIGHTS
• BAILEY HILL scored 14 points including 3-for-3 from beyond the 3-point arc, and Hill now has 24 games with double-figure scoring and nine this season.
• Cunningham now has a dozen games in her career with double-digit points and seven this season.
• GRETA KAIRYTE scored a career-high nine points off the bench, with five coming at the free-throw line.
• ABIGAIL WHYTE grabbed nine rebounds and added five points for the Hilltoppers
 
STAT OF THE GAME I
46.2 – St. Mary's shot 46 percent from the floor and 9-for-11 from the free-throw line in the final quarter to help seal the game.
 
THEY SAID IT
SEU Head Coach J.J. Riehl on the late St. Mary's run …
"I think it was [Tia Mason] the post off the bench. She got an and-one, she missed the free throw and we just weren't in the right spot, we weren't in the correct and ready position and it just kind of snowballed from there. It was just St. Mary's doing what St. Mary's does, and in the end, I think they wanted it more than us. They made plays and we didn't, it was really that simple. And, there was a lot in the game, we did a lot of things well, we just didn't finish it when we needed to finish it."
 
Riehl on rebounding Saturday at TAMIU …
"We just have to believe. If we want to change the outcome of what's going on, on the court, you have to change your mentality, and how you think. Really, how we believe, and we just really for so much of the time we lack confidence. So, it's just about us stay in the moment, not worry about the things that have happened before, and just trying to do what is we need to do."

WHAT'S NEXT
St. Edward's resumes Heartland Conference play on the road at Texas A&M-International in Laredo Saturday at 1 p.m.