PULASKI, Tenn. – The University of West Alabama women’s basketball team dropped a narrow 61-59 decision Tuesday evening to Martin Methodist College at the Robert E. Curry Christian Life Center. UWA (1-3), which trailed much of the contest, had three shots not fall in the final seconds to pull off the victory in Pulaski.

MMC’s Nina Robinson broke a 59-59 tie, the third of the game, on a jumper with 37-seconds to play. Jessica Thompson and Dominique Whitfield each missed field goals with four seconds remaining, as Ashton Washington’s three at the buzzer also fell short.

Washington led the Red and White with 15 points, as Irimar Hernandez chimed in with 11 points on the night. Whitfield paced the Tigers on the boards with a team-leading seven rebounds. The Redhawks (5-2) were led by Robinson with 15 points and eight rebounds.

Trailing by three at the half, UWA would climb within one point with under four minutes to play. Washington would give the Tigers their first lead of the second half, connecting on a pair of free throws at the 2:40-mark. Martin Methodist regained the lead and pushed ahead to a three-point edge with less than two minutes to play, but UWA’s Thompson drained a trey with 1:19 left to tie the game at 59 all.

MMC opened the contest scoring the first four points and pushed out to a 15-8 lead midway through the first stanza. UWA closed the gap with a 12-4 run over the next two minutes, capped by a jumper from Washington, to give the Tigers a 20-19 lead. The lead would swap back and forth over the next two minutes, before Kaneka Brown hit a jumper to give the RedHawks a two point edge that would grow to three at the intermission.

West Alabama returns to action on Saturday, December 1^st, as the Tigers host Arkansas Tech in the first game of a three-game home-stand. Tip-off is scheduled for 2:00 p.m.