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SEATTLE – Jami Roos scored 15 of her 23 points during the second half – including six free throws in the final 18 seconds of the game – as George Fox rallied from a 16-point deficit to defeat Seattle Pacific in an exhibition women's basketball game on Friday night in Brougham Pavilion, 70-67.
 
Junior guard Rachel Murray (Eglington, Australia) led the Falcons (0-3 in exhibition play) with 16 points. Senior guard Jordan Harazin (Colfax, Wash./Colfax HS) and sophomore guard Betsy Kingma (Bellevue, Wash./Newport HS added 10 points apiece.

“When they're pressing, that speeds you up and makes you make mistakes,” SPU coach Julie Heisey said. “You have to be disciplined. To be fair to our kids, (Thursday) was the first day we worked on a press-breaker and full-court press stuff. But we lost our discipline."
 
SPU was up 65-61 as the clock ticked into the final minute. Roos drained a trey with 55 seconds left to make it 65-64.
 
The Falcons missed a jumper, and the Bruins came back downcourt. Roos was fouled by SPU's Nyesha Sims (Portland, Ore.), the fifth of the game for the senior guard. Sims also was hit with a technical foul, and Roos drained all four free throws with 18.8 seconds showing to put George Fox on top, 68-65.
 
Sophomore guard Aubree Callen (Jerome, Idaho) drained a free throws with 15 seconds left, and junior guard Katie Thralls (Livermore, Calif.) added another free throw 14 seconds remaining, bringing SPU within one at 68-67. But the Falcons were forced to foul, and Roos went back to the line, hitting two more tor a 70-67 lead with 11.6 seconds showing.
 
McKayla Gorman (Parker, Colo.) got off a desperation 3-pointer for Seattle Pacific, but it fell short.
 
Sims pulled down a team-high eight rebounds for the Falcons.
 
Seattle Pacific trailed by as many as seven during the first half, but cut it to one by halftime, 30-29, on a buzzer-beating 3-pointer by freshman guard Suzanna Ohlsen (Monroe, Wash./Monroe HS).
 
The Falcons then ran off the first 13 points of the second half, keeping George Fox off the scoreboard for the first three-plus minutes to take a 42-30 lead. They twice extended it to 16, the last time at 52-36 with 12:54 to play.

"We came out hungry and super-aggressive," Heisey said. "We got a 15-point lead and we were doing a lot of good things. We were the aggressors on defense, and we had some different people scoring.

 George Fox finally got within single digits just inside the seven-minute mark.
 
SPU hit four more field goals than the Bruins (23-19), but George Fox had a 10-point advantage at the free throw line, hitting 25 of 33 (22 of 27 after halftime). SPU was 15 of 24 at the line.
 
The Bruins, an NCAA Division III power who won the national title in 2009, have made three straight trips to the D-3 Elite Eight and are ranked No. 3 in the preseason by D3hoops.com.
 
Seattle Pacific opens regular-season play next Friday, Nov. 11, against UC San Diego in  the CCAA-GNAC Challenge at San Francisco State University.

"This is why you play exhibition games," Heisey said. "We had so many  bright spots tonight. We can go back to practice and say, 'OK, how do we re-live what to do with 1:18 left?' We have a big test next week (against UC San Diego), so practice should be very meaningful. Hopefully, we can take the negatives and make them positives.”

 
NCAA WOMEN'S EXHIBITION BASKETBALL
Friday, November 4, 2011
Brougham Pavilion / Seattle, Wash.
 
George Fox 70, Seattle Pacific 67
 
GEORGE FOX (1-0 EXHIBITION)
Munger 2-9 4-6 8, Arnoldy 1-5 3-5 5, Towne 0-1 0-0 0, Cusick 0-4 0-0 0, Mohsenian 5-8 0-0 12, Rinehart-young 1-2 0-0 2, Roos 5-12 9-10 23, Parker 0-2 0-0 0, Wolfe 0-0 0-0 0, Heckendorf 1-3 3-4 6, Myers 4-5 6-8 14. Totals 19-51 25-33 70.
 
SEATTLE PACIFIC (0-3 EXHIBITION)
Murray 6-11 2-4 16, Benson 3-9 2-3 8, Harazin 2-5 5-6 1-0, Callen 1-4 2-54 4, Sims 3-11 0-0 6, Gorman 1-4 0-0 2, Ohlsen 2-4 0-1 5, Thralls 0-1 1-2 1, Kingma 4-5 0-0 10, Reimer 1-1 3-4 5, Stephens 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 23-56 15-24 67.
 
George Fox           30           40           --70
Seattle Pacific      29           38           --67
3-point goals – GFU 7-16 (Towne 0-1, Cusick 0-1, Mohsenian 2-3, Roos 4-10, Heckendort 1-1), SPU 6-14 (Murray 2-2, Benson 0-1, Harazin 1-1, Callen 0-2, Sims 0-1, Gorman 0-1, Ohlsen 1-2, Thralls 0-1, Kingma 2-3). Fouled out – GFU: Munger. SPU: Benson, Sims. Technical fouls – SPU: Sims. Rebounds – GFU 38 (Munger 10), SPU 37 (Sims 8). Assists – GFU 9 (Cusick 3), SPU 16 (Murray 3, Harazin 3, Kingma 3). Turnovers – GFU 22, SPU 24. Attendance – 234.
 
Records – Seattle Pacific 0-3 exhibition. George Fox 1-0 exhibition.
 
Next game – Seattle Pacific vs. UC San Diego (at San Francisco State), Nov. 11, 1:00 p.m.