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Meloney Thames
Kevan Lindsey
Meloney Thames scored a career-high 35 in the loss.
86
Winner Trinity Valley TVCC 2-0
78
Jones College JONESW 1-1
Winner
Trinity Valley TVCC
2-0
86
Final
78
Jones College JONESW
1-1
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 OT 1 F
Trinity Valley TVCC 18 11 22 19 16 86
Jones College JONESW 12 16 19 23 8 78

Game Recap: Women's Basketball | | by Kevin Maloney

Cardinals clip Bobcats in overtime

ELLISVILLE – Third-ranked Trinity Valley got a turnover with 10 seconds left and hit a buzzer-beater to force overtime where they would lead wire-to-wire and defeat No. 7 Jones 86-78 Saturday afternoon at A.B. Howard Gymnasium.

TVCC improved to 2-0 while Jones fell to 1-1.

Jones got the opening basket of the game, but the Cardinals would score the next 10 to lead 18-12 after a quarter.

Carly Keats hit a 20-footer just before the halftime horn to pull Jones within 29-28 at the break. TVCC led 51-47 after three.

The Bobcats led by as many as five, 61-56, with 4:52 left, but TVCC would rally to force overtime.

Jones was leading 70-68 with 10 seconds left and the ball, but turned it over. TVCC would hit a 12-foot jumper at the buzzer to force overtime.

In the extra period, the Cardinals never trailed.

Meloney Thames scored a career-high 35 for Jones on 12-of-22 field goals, followed by Arianna Patton with 13 and Sakyia White with 12 points and 21 boards.

Jones hosts No. 2 Shelton State (1-2) on Thursday at 5 o'clock.
 
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