By james art 
With 33 seconds remaining, the result was tied and both teams huddled during waiting, Jody Glison told the referees that she was ready to call a time -Aut after East Washington received the ball back.
But after senior Alexis Petis grabbed a free ball and – with the game still tied up – he looked up to senior Peyton Howard, Glison changed his mind and left the situation to play outside.
He was glad he did it.
While the clock brushed in under 6 seconds, Petis cut off a pass to Howard, which swallowed a foul, sank into arrangement and ended a three-point game with 3.9 seconds, giving Eastern victory with 63-60 BIG Sky over Idaho Vandals at the Eastern Conference на Айдахо на Айдахо на Вандалите на Айдахо на Вандалс на Айдахо на Айдахо на Айдахо на Айдахо на Айдахо на Айдахо на Айдахо на Айдахо на Айдахо на Айдахо на Айдахо на Айдахо на Айдахо на Айдахо на Айдахо на Айдахо на Айдахо на Айдахо на Айдахо на Айдахо Saturday at Reese Court in Cheney.
“I saw the watch and I just saw Peyton running and knew I could get it,” Petis said. “Really everything is on her.”
Glison, her main coach, smiled and intervened.
“This is a good pass,” she said.
“When you get such a theft, it’s kind of like, let them play with their instincts and intuition,” Glison said, “because this shot will probably be better than the shot we get after a game. Sometimes you just have to let them loose and let them play. “
The victory raised the eagles (10-15, 6-7 large sky) in the fifth place in the standings with five games left in the regular season.
Idaho, who lost four of his last six games, dropped to 16-8, 8-5.
The vandals never led on Saturday, but they fell out of a deficit up to 16 points and overcame 19 turnover to tie the game at 60 with 1:34 when Olivia Nelson scored the last two of her 20 points.
Nelson scored 10 points in the fourth quarter and finished 9 out of 19 of the pitch. Last month, with Idaho’s 67-57 victory over East in Moscow, Nelson scored 29 points.
“The last game we felt they were too comfortable in their insult,” Glison said. “Nelson is such a good guard that you really can’t keep one in one, so we really tried to help and dig and do things difficult for her.”
Howard scored the last seven points on East and ended with 19 to go with four fights, three assists, four turnover and three thefts. The Eagles had 14 thefts, most against Division I opponent this season. Petis had five of them and added 13 points.
Idaho ahead of the Eastern 46-28, the largest negative margin for the eagles this season.
But Eastern made 15 out of 16 free throws and turned the ball only 10 times, two more than the low seasons.