Box Score The Spring Hill College (SHC) women's basketball team dropped a 64-60 outcome to Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC) opponent the Miles College Lady Golden Bears at the Arthur R. Outlaw Recreation Center on Monday evening.

The Lady Golden Bears (6-2, 3-0 SIAC West) trailed the Badgers 6-0 just 2½ minutes into the game, but rallied to take an 8-7 lead off a layup by Brittney Smith at the 3:48 mark of the period and never trailed again. Miles built as much as 10-point lead at 44-34 with just under four minutes left in the 3rd period, but SHC rallied for a 10-1 run that sliced the deficit down to 45-44 with 8:26 left in the game.

Miles answered right back with a jumper and layup to reclaim a 5-point advantage and would not let SHC get closer than 3-points over the final six minutes of play.

Badger forward Brittney Davis posted her season-high of 17 points to lead all scorers in the contest while center Leah Washington and guard Jennifer Clark each added 10 points. Washington tallied a double-double effort as she also hauled in a game-high 10 rebounds.

Spring Hill shot 37.5% (21-56) for the game and 28.6% (2-7) from 3-point distance while out-rebounding the Bears by a 40-32 margin. Turnovers proved to be the crucial difference in the game as SHC lost 18 turnovers to nine steals by Miles who converted the Badger turnovers into 21 points.

For Miles, Larian Scott and Javonne Brown came off the bench to post 17 and 12 points respectively as the Bears shot 45.1% (23-51) from the field and were 2-of-5 (40%) from long distance. Miles lost the ball 14 times to seven Badger steals that resulted in 13 points.

The Badgers (2-6, 1-1 SIAC West) next will host non-conference opponent the Southern University in New Orleans (SUNO) Lady Knights (2-6) on Wednesday beginning at 5:30 p.m. in the Arthur R. Outlaw Recreation Center.