Moon Township, Pa. – A last second basket by Jocelynne Jones sent the game to overtime before the Robert Morris University women's basketball team eventually lost to St. Francis Brooklyn, 72-65, at the Charles L. Sewall Center in a Northeast Conference game Saturday afternoon. The loss drops RMU to 14-12 and 8-7 in the NEC while the Terriers improve to 7-19 and 4-11 in league games. The announced attendance of 1,004 was the largest crowd for an RMU women's game since 2009.
 
"I'm quite disappointed with the way the game ended, but I'm proud of the way we came back at the end of regulation and tied the ball game up and forced overtime," said 13th-year RMU head coach Sal Buscaglia. "We just have to keep working at it. It's not our last game – we still have three more games to go until the playoffs. If we can continue to be strong both mentally and physically and understand that the season is not over, and just keep working at it, some good things can happen for us."
 
Ann Niki Stamolamprou led Robert Morris with 14 points. Megan Smith added 11 points and eight rebounds as the Colonials had 10 players find the scoring column for the ninth time this year.
 
Facing a two-point deficit and inbounding from the sideline with just 2.3 seconds to play, RMU threw a pass to the top of the key to Janee Brown. Brown beat her defender to the paint before send a pass low to Jocelynne Jones. Jones quickly released her shot, beating the buzzer and tying the game at 55-55 to send it to overtime.
 
In the extra session, Maria Palarino scored two of her career high 18 points to put the Terriers on top before Ashley Ravelli tied the score with a pair from the chalk. A trey by Alex Delaney put the visiting squad back on top and they stretched the lead to six with three consecutive free throws.  A trey by Stamolamprou trimmed the margin to three with 41 seconds left, but St. Francis Brooklyn scored the net five points from the charity stripe and ended the game on a 9-5 push to escape with 72-65 win.
 
The Colonials used a 10-2 run in the first quarter to jump out to a 15-10 lead after 10 minutes. Stamolamprou had six of those point, burying a pair of shots from long range. RMU built the lead to as many as seven points, 24-17, on a Megan Smith jumper in the second quarter. The Terriers stormed back with a 8-2 run in the final 2:48 of the half and a Leah Fechko three just before the break made it a one-point game, 26-25, at the halfway point.
 
The third quarter featured three ties and would end that way, 42-42, as Tori Wagner hit a short jumnper at the horn. That shot came in the middle of what would become a 9-0 surge by St. Francis Brooklyn. A Kat Phipps three-pointer was followed by a lay-in from Maria Palarino, giving the guests a 47-42 lead 90 seconds into the final frame.
 
A 70 run started with a jumper by Jones on the baseline. Ashley Ravelli followed with a long pull-up and Stamolamprou finished it off with a three-ball to put RMU back in front, 51-50, before four straight from Fechko stretched the margin back to four points. Megan Smith hit a lay-in with seven seconds left, then two missed free throws by the Terriers set up Jones last second bucket.
 
Fechko led all scorers with 20 points in addition to 18 from Palarino. Alex Delaney chipped in 11 for the Terriers.
 
Robert Morris returns to action Monday, Feb. 22, when they host LIU Brooklyn in a 7:00 p.m. game at the Sewall Center.