RICHMOND, Va. – Jamesia Price registered her first career double-double with 18 points and a season-high 10 rebounds, and Jackie Kemph scored 18 points on 8-of-9 shooting, but Richmond rallied for a 75-72 overtime victory over the Billikens in an Atlantic 10 Conference women's basketball game Saturday afternoon at the Robins Center.
Saint Louis slipped to 11-12 overall and 4-6 in the A-10. Richmond, which has won three straight and six of seven, improved to 15-8, 7-3.
Price added four assists and three steals, and Kemph tallied four assists. Jenny Vliet and Olivia Jakubicek scored eight points apiece for Saint Louis, which shot a season-high 50.9 percent from the field.
Vliet grabbed eight rebounds, including a game-high four on the offensive end, while Jakubicek and Maddison Gits hauled in seven boards apiece for the Billikens, who earned a 46-30 advantage on the glass.
Richmond's Lauren Tolson led all scorers with 22 points. Genevieve Okoro and Janelle Hubbard scored 15 points apiece, while Olivia Healy contributed 12 points, seven rebounds and four assists.
In overtime, Richmond took its first lead of the game on two Hubbard free throws, but Saint Louis immediately regained the lead on a Vliet 3-pointer. The Bills made it 72-70 on a Kemph free throw with 1:57 remaining.
The Spiders tied it on Okoro's layup with 1:40 left. Following a Billiken miss, Healy knocked down a trey to put Richmond in front, 75-72.
Price's 3-point attempt from the corner was on target but rattled out, and Okoro was fouled on the rebound. She missed both free throws to leave the door open, but another SLU 3-point attempt to tie was off the mark.
The Billikens roared to a 20-0 lead with a combination of an attacking offense and tenacious defense. Price scored 10 points, including two 3-pointers, during the run, while Richmond missed its first 11 shots and committed four turnovers.
The Spiders got back into the game with a 12-0 flurry of their own. Vliet ended the Saint Louis scoring drought with a 3-pointer, and the Billikens went on to take a 35-25 halftime lead.
Richmond quickly made it a four-point game by scoring on its first three second-half possessions, part of a 9-0 run that cut Saint Louis' lead to 35-34. After Desirae Ball hit a short jumper, the Spiders pulled even on a Liz Brown triple.
SLU then assembled an 8-2 run for a 45-39 advantage, and Richmond answered with a 7-2 spurt to narrow the gap to one. Kemph's 3-pointer and reverse layup on consecutive possessions expanded the lead to 52-46.
The Spiders didn't go away, however, scoring on eight of their next 11 possessions to forge a 64-64 tie with 3:12 remaining. The Billikens responded with a drive by Jakubicek and Price's steal and layup to go up 68-64 at the 2:27 mark, but those were the final points SLU would score in regulation.
Richmond cut the lead in half with 39 seconds left and tied it on Hubbard's drive with nine seconds on the clock. Saint Louis missed a potential game-winner at the buzzer.
The Billikens host league-leading and nationally ranked George Washington Wednesday, Feb. 11. Tip time at Chaifetz Arena is 7 p.m.
