Box Score WICHITA FALLS, Texas, — Aminata Fall scored a season high 25 points and scored the game-winning layup with only five seconds to play giving Southern Nazarene a 68-66 win versus Texas-Permian Basin.
 
The Crimson Storm (2-2) trailed by as much as eight in the second half before regaining the lead with 15:35 to play. SNU and the Falcons traded leads back and forth as neither team could pull away from the other. The Storm trailed by four with only 4:54 left to play in the second half after Danielle Wilson hit two free throws. SNU immediately answered with a 5-0 run and took a 64-63 lead after Ashleigh Hutchings made a layup off of an assist by Kristin Milster. Texas-Permian Basin (0-2) took the lead back with 2:07 to play after Valerie Barriga hit two free throws. At the 1:05 mark it was the Storm's turn again when Fall assisted Milster on a layup helping SNU to a 66-65 lead. The Falcons though, tied the game after Fall fouled Barriga sending her to the line once again. Barriga hit only one of two free throws and left plenty of time on the clock for the Storm to get a quality shot.  Callee Cox missed a jumper with seven seconds to play but Fall corralled her twelfth rebound of the night and made a layup giving the Storm a 68-66 lead. The Falcons took one last shot but it fell short and the Storm escaped with the win. 
 
"We ran an offensive set that we scored on earlier," said Head Coach Derek Dorris. "We were unable to get it in to Aminata and Callee got a look. She (Aminata) got the rebound and put it in. It wasn't pretty execution, but we did what we needed to do."
 
Fall led all scorers going 9-for-19 from the field with 25 points and tallied five assists. Milster had a career-high 20 points, one rebound, four assists and shot 50 percent from the field going 7-for-14. Cox scored nine points off the bench grabbing a career-high eight rebounds. Hutchings pitched in five points, five rebounds, and three assists.
 
The Storm shot 45.3 percent from the field and 37.5 percent from 3-point range. SNU shot 18 free throws on the night, hitting 83.3 percent of them. Texas-Permian Basin went 13-for-17 at the line. The Storm outrebounded the Falcons 46-31 and limited The Falcons to only 34.3 percent shooting from the field. 
 
"We played really well this weekend," said Dorris. "We played two quality opponents and to come away and beat the Heartland Conference Champion is a big win."
 
SNU took its biggest lead of the game in the first half 31-24 after Fall drained a 3-pointer off of an assist from Danielle Gaddis. The Falcons though, went on a seven-nothing run to close out the half and lead the Storm 32-31. The Falcons scored twelve points off of turnovers in the first half forcing SNU into 18 of them. The Storm only had nine turnovers in the second half. 
 
The Crimson Storm will now travel toCentral Oklahoma for a non-conference game, Tuesday, at 8 p.m.