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The Capital University women's basketball team looks to recover from its first Ohio Athletic Conference setback of the 2012-13 season this Saturday against No. 2 Mount Union at 3 p.m. at the Capital Center.
The Crusaders (7-3 overall, 3-1 OAC) were defeated Wednesday 76-68 in overtime at Wilmington despite a valiant second-half comeback. Capital erased a 15-point halftime deficit in the second period and withstood a potential game-winning shot by the Quakers at the end of regulation.
The Crusaders never led in the extra period, when they were outscored 16-8. Junior forward Jamie Caton (Hilliard, Ohio), who fouled out in regulation, led Capital with 16 points and five rebounds. Senior forward Stacy Timmerman (New Bremen, Ohio) recorded 15 points and a team-high eight rebounds, while sophomore Shelby Sheets (Fayetteville, Ohio) made 8-of-10 free throws to finish with 12 points along with a team-best four steals.
Mount Union (9-0, 4-0), which is ranked second in the nation by D3hoops.com, withstood a furious second-half rally by Baldwin-Wallace to hang on for an 82-79 victory in Alliance, Ohio. Guard Rosa Lamattina posted a career-high 38 points along with eight rebounds and four steals to lead the Purple Raiders, who made nine 3-pointers and knocked down 21-of-28 at the free throw line.
Lamattina leads Mount Union, which is the two-time defending OAC regular season and three-time tournament champion, with a league-best 19.9 points per contest. Aly Daniel is the conference's leader in shooting percentage, making 59.0 percent of her attempts for 9.0 points per game.
The Purple Raiders lead the OAC with 73.0 points per game and is tops in the league in 3-pointers made per game (7.7), offensive rebounds per game (15.9) and assists per game (17.6).
Capital dropped all three of its meetings last season against Mount Union by an average of seven points per contest and has lost eight of the last nine meetings between the two teams. The Purple Raiders knocked the Crusaders out of the OAC Tournament for the third consecutive season last year by an 84-78 score in the semifinals.
Capital enters the weekend ranked in the top four in the league in several categories, including points per game (66.2), field goal percentage (.417), assists per game (15.6) and points per game allowed (57.6).
