NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. - The Westminster College women's basketball team lost its home opener Saturday with a 67-64 overtime loss to visiting Hiram in nonconference action. The Titans fall to 2-3 on the season with their last four games being decided by a combined seven points. Hiram, playing in its first game of the season, improves to 1-0.

Westminster set a new team record for rebounds in a game as the Titans outrebounded the Terriers, 77-47. The previous Westminster record for rebounds in a game were 60 vs. Ursuline on Dec. 9, 2000.

Westminster missed its final seven field goal attempts of overtime including three straight missed 3-pointers in the final 14 seconds.

Hiram's Jessica Cowan scored the game-winning field goal with 38 seconds remaining before sinking a pair of free throws to put the Terriers up by three with 20 seconds left.

Cowan led all scorers with 25 points, while her teammate Tiffany Shields bucketed 15.

The Titans rallied at the end of regulation. After Cowan's lay-up with 1:41 on the clock gave Hiram a five-point, 53-48 lead, Westminster freshman guard Hannah Shaffer answered with a 3-pointer to cut the Terrier lead to two with 1:21 left. Neither team scored at the end of regulation until sophomore forward Andi Ridge sent the game to overtime with a lay-up with five seconds left.

Shaffer led the Titans with a career-high 15 points which included 3-11 shooting from 3-point range. She also grabbed seven rebounds.

Ridge bucketed a season-high 13 points to go with a career-high 16 rebounds, which ties for fifth in team history for rebounds in a game.

Sophomore Katie Hughes also had a big rebounding game for Westminster with a career-high 14 to go with six points.

Senior guard Kaitlin McCarthy handed out a game-high six assists for the Titans to go with six points.

Westminster never led in the first or second halves and it trailed 26-22 at halftime. The Terriers led by as many as 14 points when they took a 37-23 lead three-and-a-half minutes into the second half.

The Titans eventually whittled the Hiram lead down to three points with 5:24 remaining and Hiram led by no more than five points for the remainder of regulation. In overtime, Westminster led on five occasions before Cowan's lay-up with 38 seconds left sealed the win.

Westminster opens conference play at Bethany Wednesday for a 6 p.m. tip-off.