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TAHLEQUAH, Okla. – The Northeastern State women's basketball team dropped a 69-67 double overtime contest to Drury Saturday night inside the NSU Event Center.
 
The RiverHawks fell to 0-4 for the first time since 1998-99, which was the year before NSU Coach Randy Gipson took over the program. The Lady Panthers moved to 3-0 on the year.
 
Freshman forward Che'Ron Lewis led four RiverHawks in double figures with her 19 points and eight rebounds. Junior guards Chelsey Beathard and Fontana Tate added 15 and 11, respectively, while sophomore forward Melissa Jones dropped 10.
 
Annie Armstrong and Paige Wilson led the Lady Panthers with 14 each, and Amber Dvorak had 10 points and nine rebounds.
 
Northeastern State shot 38 percent (23-for-60) from the field, 29 percent (5-for-17) from distance and 64 percent (16-for-25). Drury connected on 37 percent (26-for-70) from the field, 29 percent (6-for-21) from distance and 79 percent (11-for-14) at the charity stripe.
 
The RiverHawks will return to action at 6 p.m. Nov. 19 when they play host to Tarleton State.
 
Scoring Summary
Drury             22         33        10        4          69
NSU              25         30        10        2          67

Northeastern State Coach Randy Gipson
"The silver lining with our team is they gave a really good effort. We played good team defense for the most part. The mistakes that we made offensively tonight I think are correctable. Hopefully we can keep this group together day-to-day in practice. We need to get good repetitions. I saw a lot of real encouraging things. I think everybody showed their willingness to work hard. We weren't able to pull one out tonight but we fought valiantly. That's a positive sign that we can move forward with."

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