Box Score

BOSTON - Ashley Lutz scored 21 of her career-high 23 points in the second half, and Lafayette used a key 7-0 run in the later stages of the fourth quarter to seal a 71-64 road victory over Boston University Saturday afternoon.

Maia Hood converted a layup to break a 61-61 tie with 4:03 left in the contest. She added another layup a minute later, and Anna Ptasinski drained a key 3-pointer with 1:55 on the clock to make it a three-possession game.

Lutz also grabbed a game-high 11 boards, as she and Hood (15 points, 10 rebounds) each secured double-doubles for a second-consecutive game. Jamie O'Hare added a career-best 10 assists for the Leopards (5-16, 3-8 PL), who completed a regular season sweep of the Terriers (2-20, 2-9 PL).

"Ashley and Maia were just fierce on the boards," head coach Theresa Grentz said. "They say offense puts people in the seats, defense wins games and rebounding wins championships. Those two, they get after it. They're forces to be reckoned with, and for both get double-doubles again, that's a pretty incredible accomplishment."

Neither team led by more than five points in a back-and-forth first half, and the score was tied on eight separate occasions in the opening 20 minutes. BU entered this afternoon eighth in the Patriot League in 3-point field goal percentage (28.6), but the hosts were 5-for-9 in the first half and they also scored 10 points off of nine Lafayette turnovers.

The Leopards were more protective of the ball after the intermission, committing only three more turnovers the rest of the way. Lutz quickly set the tone for the second half with back-to-back 3-pointers in the early stages of the third quarter. The second of those long balls gave the Maroon and White a 36-34 edge with 7:44 left.

The Terriers responded with an 8-0 run to jump back in front, and they matched their largest lead at 47-40 with 3:44 on the clock. Lafayette, though, closed the frame on a 10-3 run, with Lutz converting a three-point play in the final seconds to create a 50-50 deadlock heading into the fourth quarter.

The game's 11th and final tie came after BU's Sarah Hope hit a 3-pointer with 4:41 remaining to even up the score at 61. That set up the Leopards' key 7-0 stretch, and they held the Terriers to only three points in the remainder of the quarter following Hope's long ball.

O'Hare entered Saturday ranked first in the Patriot League at 4.3 assists per game, and she strengthened her position atop the leaderboard with her career-high 10 helpers against BU. That broke a career-mark of eight set just four games ago at American, and O'Hare is averaging 6.6 assists per game over the past five contests. She played the entire 40 minutes this afternoon, doing so for a sixth time in 2015-16.

"Jamie has had to move into the point guard role these last two games with Sammy Stipa sidelined," Grentz said. "She's had to shoulder a lot of responsibility, but she's kept her poise and done everything we've asked her to do. I have nothing but high praise for her performance."

Lafayette also had another big performance from the free throw line, hitting 16-of-19 attempts from the charity stripe (84.2 percent). The Maroon and White have now hit 80 percent or more of their free throw attempts for three games in a row, and Lutz is up to 89.5 percent (34-of-38) for the season after a 7-for-7 performance today.

The Leopards will look for their first conference winning streak of the season Wednesday night, when they return to Kirby Sports Center for a 7 p.m. matchup against Holy Cross.

Notes:

Lafayette improved to 4-1 this season when scoring 70 or more points in a game.

Lutz's previous scoring career-high was a 19-point effort at Holy Cross on Jan. 13. She is averaging 12.0 points and 9.6 rebounds per game in 11 league contests.

Hood's 15 points and 10 rebounds both tied career-highs set earlier in the season, and she played a career-high 38 minutes in today's win.

Harriet Ottewill-Soulsby had each of Lafayette's two blocks on the afternoon, giving her 47 for her career and moving her past Lindsay Myers '06 for ninth place in program history.