JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – The Newman Women's Basketball team took to the road for their last two games of the 2020-21 season. They started off the road trip against the Lincoln Blue Tigers inside Jason Gymnasium. The Blue Tigers would take down the Jets with a two point basket with just two second left on the clock to win 60-58.
 
With the score tied at 4-4, a little over three minutes into the contest, the Blue Tigers would get hot going on a 15-6 run to close out the opening quarter. Lincoln would be able to build their lead up to as much as 11 points on multiple occasions on their way to taking a 19-10 lead into the second quarter.
 
In the second quarter, the Jets would slowly start to chip away at the Blue Tiger lead. In the last half of the quarter, Newman would outscore Lincoln 13-2 to take the lead heading into the intermission, 33-30.
 
Neither team would lead by more than five points for the rest of the contest as both teams would respond immediately when the other would put together a run. We would enter the fourth quarter with the Blue Tigers up 48-45.
 
Lincoln would build up a lead of five points with three minutes left in the final period. Sydney Nilles would cut the lead down to three points and the Blue Tigers would make one of two free throws to make the lead four points with 1:43 left. Brooke Haney would make a layup to cut the lead back down to two and the Blue Tigers would again go one of two from the charity stripe to make it a three point ball game. After taking a timeout, the Jets would miss a three point basket, but Faith Mason-Vestal would pull in the offensive rebound and Madison Birnbaum would knock down a three point basket with 16 second left to tie the game up at 68-68. Lincoln would draw up a play and would knock down a floater in the lane to take the 60-58 lead with two seconds left. The Jets would draw up a good play, but couldn't get the layup to drop as the Blue Tigers would hold on 60-58.
 
Faith Mason-Vestal led the Jets with a double-double including a season high 17 points and 10 rebounds. Brooke Haney and Amoni White would both add in 12 points and 5 rebounds apiece. The Blue Tigers were led in scoring by Vivian Chigbu with 17 points. The Jets shot 24 of 54 for 44 percent from the floor and 2 of 11 for 18 percent from three point range. Lincoln would shoot 22 of 57 for 39 percent from the floor and 3 of 12 from three point range for 25 percent.
 
The Jets will be back in action on Saturday, February 27^th as they take on Pittsburg State for their final contest of the season with tip-off set for 1:30 pm.