TULSA - The Oral Roberts University women's basketball team found out why Western Illinois is the only undefeated team in The Summit League, falling to the Westerwinds 60-46 in ORU's first home game since December 21. With the win, Western Illinois (8-9, 6-0 Summit League) takes sole possession of first-place in The Summit League.

ORU (10-7, 4-2 Summit League) was led by junior Mariana Camargo's 13 points, while junior Jenny Hardin finished the game with 12 points and six rebounds.

Western Illinois' Gina Hugelier led all scorers with a game-high 19 points as well as grabbing 10 boards to record her second double-double of the season. Amanda Walker and Stephanie Lovingood also scored in double-digits for the Westerwinds with 13 and 12 respectively.

The Westerwinds shot 45.7 percent from the field and 50 percent from three-point range, while ORU made only 15 of 52 shots for a 28.8 percent field-goal average.

Both teams would trade baskets in the opening minutes of the game with Western Illinois holding the early advantage with a Gina Hugelier layup and Stephanie Lovingood jumper, opening with an 8-4 lead at the 16:55 mark.

The Golden Eagles would take their first lead of the game at the 15-minute mark with a Mariana Camargo jumper, but WIU's Amanda Walker would head right back to the other end to hit a jumper of her own to regain the 12-11 lead. The Westerwinds' Hugelier would nail her first three of the game to give WIU the largest lead of the game, 15-11, but ORU's Kelly Kindell would come right back to knock down in a trey to get the Golden Eagles back within one.

ORU would take its first lead of the game with back-to-back Janae Voelker free-throws and then take its largest lead of the game, 18-15. Western's Lindsey Wutt would regain the one-point lead with a jumper at the nine-minute mark to make it the fourth lead-change of the game. ORU would go on a 5-0 run to take the lead with a Whitney Wehymeyer layup and free-throw, 27-24, with 3:44 left in the first.

With seconds ticking off the clock, WIU's Amanda Walker would find the open three with four seconds left in the first half to regain the 31-27 lead at the break.

Both teams would trade baskets early in the second half until Western would score four-straight points to extend its lead to six, the largest of the game, 37-31 with 14:30 left to play. WIU would hold ORU scoreless for the next seven minutes until Mariana Camargo would find the easy layup at the 11:38 mark to get back within four.

The Westerwinds would start to pull away from the Golden Eagles, taking the 41-33 lead, but ORU would not give up quite so easily, chipping away at WIU's lead with a Camargo layup. Western's Jordon O'Brien would hit a three from the top of the key to extend their lead to 12, the largest lead of the game.

Western Illinois would never look back, outscoring ORU down the stretch to keep their perfect Summit League record in tact, winning 60-46.

The Golden Eagles will wrap up its two-game home swing on Monday night with a 7 p.m. match-up with IUPUI.

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