SALEM, Va. – Gabby Oglesby's layup with 27 seconds left gave Guilford College a 67-66 upset of second-seeded Bridgewater College in an Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) Basketball Tournament quarterfinal Thursday. The Quakers meet the winner of Thursday's final quarterfinal between Roanoke College and Virginia Wesleyan College Saturday (2/26) at 3:00 p.m. in the Salem Civic Center.
Oglesby's bucket sent the seventh-seeded Quakers (15-11) into their first ODAC Tournament semifinal since 2006 and likely ended the Eagles' season with a 22-4 record. The win also marked the 100th coaching victory in Stephanie Flamini's eight-year tenure at Guilford.
Guilford trailed, 57-45, after Emileigh Lambert's basket with 8:05 left in regulation. The Quakers responded as senior Lauren LeFevers started and finished a 10-0 Quakers' run with three-pointers. Her fourth three-pointer of the game came from NBA range and made it a 57-55 contest with 5:47 to play.
Seconds earlier, Bridgewater senior Jordan Burkholder, the ODAC's Player of the Year, left the game with ankle injury. She sparked the Eagles strong second-half start with 11 of her team-high 21 points and three of her five steals.
With Burkholder on the bench, the Quakers crept back into the game and eventually tied it at 61-61 with 2:53 left on two Morgan King free throws. An Oglesby basket a minute later gave the Quakers their first lead since the opening half. Bridgewater's Jenny Logan answered with a traditional three-point play at the 1:23 mark that restored a 66-65 Eagles' edge.
The teams traded possessions before LeFevers drove the lane and found Oglesby open underneath for the easy go-ahead basket. The hobbled Burkholder returned to the game following a Bridgewater timeout with 20 ticks left, but her runner in the lane did not fall. However, the Eagles got their 23rd offensive rebound and called another timeout. Bianca Booker's shot in traffic missed the mark and Guilford's Logan Terry secured the rebound as time expired.
Guilford's King led all scorers with a career-high 22 points and added a game-best 12 boards for her team-leading sixth double-double. LeFevers added 12 points on four-of-six shooting from three-point land. After shooting 33 percent from the floor in the first half, Guilford shot 58.3 percent in the second half.
Burkholder paced the Eagles with 21 points, eight rebounds five assists and five steals. Jessica Mullen added 15 points and Logan finished with 11. Guilford limited Bridgewater to 32.4 percent field-goal shooting, its second-lowest figure of the season.
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