KINGSVILLE, Texas (Women's Basketball) – A sick Kaylin Roher stole the show at Kitty Winter Magee Arena Thursday with 26 points on 9-of-14 shooting and 18 points from three-point range but Texas Woman's University (13-6, 6-5 LSC) drained a bucket with 31 seconds remaining to split the regular season series with Texas A&M University-Kingsville (9-9, 4-8 LSC) with a 65-64 victory.
 
Roher also took sole possession of seventh place on the school's all-time three pointers list with 106 made triples. Shaq Debose reached double figures with 11 points off the bench and Angelica Wilson added seven points, seven rebounds and two assists.
 
FIRST PERIOD
Put her illness aside, Roher was all net early on with the first nine points for TAMUK, all from long distance.
 
Debose's floater beat the buzzer as A&M-Kingsville and TWU ended the first period tied at 11-11.
 
SECOND PERIOD
The Pioneers opened the quarter with six unanswered points and the Hogs got on the scoreboard on Ope Ibrahim's bucket off the dish from Madison Crawford. Roher added two more treys in the second to end the half with 15 of Kingsville's 24 points. However, Texas Woman's was led by Kenesha Saygo's 11 points and the Pioneers shot 87.5 percent in the second to end the first half with a 31-24 lead. With the five three-pointers made, Roher tied her single-game high and upped her career total to 105, tying Kelly Beckler (2002-04) for seventh on the school's all-time charts.
 
THIRD PERIOD
Roher tied her season-high of 21 points through three by going 7-of-11 and 5-of-8 from three-point range. Debose came off the bench with four points but A&M-Kingsville was on the wrong end of a 48-40 ballgame heading into the final period of regulation. For Texas Woman's Saygo had 17 points and Emily Spector followed with 10 points.
 
FOURTH PERIOD
Roher continued her career night in the opening minutes of the fourth, hitting her sixth three-pointer and setting a new career mark with 24 points. The Hogs scored the period's first seven points to make it a one-point game with 7:57 left to play.
 
Moments later, Debose connected on her second from behind-the-arc to cut TAMUK's deficit to two with 5:34 remaining.
 
Driving to the hoop on back-to-back possessions, Roher and Meesha Wade tied the game at 58-all with just over three minutes left to play.
 
Roher came up big defensively with 2:32 remaining, drawing a charge on Saygo's drive and after a miss offensively, Wade swiped a pivotal pass in the key and found a trailing Debose, who was fouled and went to the line looking to tie the game at 60 with 1:58 left to play. Debose drained both from the charity stripe to record 11 points and knot the game.
 
Tied with 1:11 remaining, Roher found an open Wilson up front and Jelly hit the free throw to complete the and-one and give TAMUK a 63-60 lead. However, the sharpshooter Saygo tied the game again.
 
Wade proved to be clutch in the closing minute, hitting a free throw with 34.2 seconds remaining to put Kingsville in front by one. However, TWU scored to take a lead and the ebuzzer beater was not good as the Javelinas fell to the Pioneers 65-64.
 
Saygo matched Roher and finished with 25 points and seven rebounds and Spector added 14 points and eight rebounds.
 
NEXT UP
Women's basketball returns to Kingsville to host Midwestern State University Feb. 2 on Pack the House Night at 5:15 p.m. It is #GOLDOUT night in the SPEC and all fans that wear gold will receive free pizza.
 
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