Jenna Batsch scored a career-high 19 points and blocked two shots in Kent State’s 89-82 loss to Duquesne Sunday.
Kent State coach Todd Starkey has played Duquesne to an absolute draw in six meetings with the Dukes.
Each team has now won three games. Neither team has won by more than seven points.
Sunday, the two teams tied after regulation and tied again after one overtime before Duquesne pulled out an 89-82 victory in double overtime.
The game was close throughout with quarter-long swings in the second (20-13 Kent) and third (25-18 Duquesne) periods.
In the fourth period, KSU scored the first nine points, then watched Duquesne tie the game at 63 with 1:06 to go. Mikala Morris put Kent back ahead with a three-point play 40 seconds later, then Duquesne’s Tess Myers tied it again with a long-range 3-point basket with 11 seconds to go.
“We put ourselves in a position to win the game at the beginning of the fourth quarter,” Starkey told KSU broadcaster Zane Richardson in his postgame interveiw. “Then we gave them too many chances at the end.”
When Richardson suggested Kent’s entire starting lineup had key moments over the end of regulation and the two overtimes, Starkey replied:
“We got to have more than moments. We have to have full games from everybody. We have different players step up at different times. But at the end of the day, you have to be good all the time in these games, especially on the road.”
The game was the Flashes’ seventh on the road in its first eight games.
Sophomore point guard Corynne Hauser led Kent State with her first double-double of her career — 19 points and 11 reboounds. Junior forward Jenna Batsch had a career-high 19 points, andd Morris scored 11. Four other Flashes had at least seven points.