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Freshman Plays Spoiler On Senior Night As JCU Falls To Heidelberg At The Buzzer

Katie Mahoney and her fellow seniors came up two points shy in their final regular season home game
On senior night, a freshman would be the hero. 

Unfortunately, it was John Carroll's senior night and the hero was from Heidelberg.
 
Jordan Ickes' lay-up with less than a second on the clock proved to be the game-winning points in a 66-64 victory by the visitors that spoiled the final home game for the four Blue Streak seniors. 

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Heidelberg had appeared to seize control late, as a 9-4 run capped by a pair of Jenny Miller free throws had put the Berg ahead 59-54 with 2:21 to play. 

But JCU would claw back and tie the game at 62-62 on a Sadie Zander three-pointer with 44 ticks left.
Ickes would score the final four points for Heidelberg, first beating the shot clock on a short jumper with 14 seconds left. After Lee Jennings tied the game at 64-64 with five seconds remaining, Stacey Barker found Ickes streaking toward the basket for the game-winning play. 

Starting slow was not an issue for the Blue Streaks tonight as they scored 16 of the game's first 20 points. 

But after Whitney Hamilton drained a three-pointer at the 13:08 mark to make the score 16-4, John Carroll would miss 14 of its next 15 shots as a 12-point lead turned into a four-point deficit. With Chelsey Calhoun's hot hand leading the way, the Berg would take a 29-25 lead into the half. 

Heidelberg continued the assault to start the second half. After Hamilton cut the visitors' lead to two points on a lay-up, Heidelberg scored ten of the next 12 points, with both Stacey Richard and Stacey Barker draining three-pointers to give the Berg its first double digit lead, 41-31, at the 16:35 mark. 

With the help of Jennings and Laura Gruber, JCU managed to climb back into the game, engineering an 8-0 run to close the gap to 41-39. Heidelberg briefly surged back out by five on a Jordan Ickes three-pointer, but a Hamilton three tied the game at 46-46, and a Sureck fast break lay-up put JCU back on top 48-46. 

Heidelberg answered back and took a 50-48 lead following a put back by Betsy Shrider, but Hamilton tied the game at 50-50 as the game tucked inside seven minutes left in regulation. 

Heidelberg (6-18, 5-12 OAC), which won for just the second time on the road this season, was paced by Miller's 17 points, aided by a 9-11 effort from the free throw. Calhoun chipped in 11 and Ickes added ten. The game winning shot was part of a second half in which Ickes was 4-4 from the field and 1-1 from three-point range. 

John Carroll (11-12, 8-9 OAC) was led by 34 points from Jennings, who has now scored at least 22 points in six consecutive games. Hamilton added 12 for the Blue Streaks, who finished the year 5-6 at home.
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