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LOS ANGELES, Calif.—The University of Hawai'i women's basketball team (6-4, 0-0 Big West) sank 17 of their last 19 free throw attempts in the last 3:06 minutes of the game to lift the 'Bows to a 85-76 win at Loyola Marymount. Hawai'i came back from being six points with five minutes left to finish the game on a 21-to-6 run to defeat the Lions at the Gersten Pavilion on Saturday afternoon. Morgan Mason scored a team-high 19 points to lead five Rainbow Wahine in double figures while Shawlina Segovia pulled down a career-high eight rebounds. Hawai'i improved to 6-4 overall and is now 3-0 on the road for the first time since the 2005-06 season.
 
Mason was an efficient 4-for-5 from the floor and 11-of-14 from the free throw line to lead Hawai'i. She made 9-of-12 free throws in the final 1:25 of the game to help put the game away. She also had four rebounds and two assists in just 19 minutes of action due to early foul trouble.
 
Three Rainbow Wahine—Ashleigh Karaitiana, Destiny King, and Dalayna Sampton all tallied 12 points and Segovia added 11. Karaitiana was just 2-for-12 in field goals, but went 8-of-10 from the charity stripe to keep her streak of double-digit point games alive at 10. She has scored at least 10 points in all of UH's games thus far this season. King was 4-of-9 in field goals and a perfect 4-of-4 in free throws with six boards, two assists and three steals. King was fouled with the game tied at 70-70 with 1:49 left and gave UH the lead for good by sinking a pair of free throws that helped turn the tide. Sampton came from off the bench to record her second-straight game with double-digit points with 12. She went 6-for-9 while corralling six rebounds with a steal.
 
Hawai'i jumped out to a quick 10-2 lead to start the game and maintained the lead as the team weathered early foul trouble. But with 7:52 left in the first half, LMU's Deanna Johnson hit a layup that capped 10-to-0 LMU run that knotted the game at 20-20. That would spark a Hawai'i 14-to-1 run that gave them a 14-point lead (39-25) with 2:56 left. The Rainbow Wahine would take a 45-33 lead into halftime.
 
Loyola Marymount, however, battled back in the second half as they held UH off the scoreboard for four minutes as the Lions swung back with a 9-to-0 run that was snapped by a King jumper with 13:31 left in the game. LMU would eventually catch and overtake Hawai'i, building their lead to as much as six points with 5:14 left on the clock.  But, the 'Bows had one last run in them, closing the game by outscoring LMU, 21-to-6—including 17 made free throws in the last three minutes.

Hawai'i posted a 45.0% field goal for the game and out-rebounded LMU, 47-to-35. The 'Bows edged the Lions 38-to-36 in points in the paint and UH's reserves outscored their counterparts, 25-to 18. But Loyola Marymount outscored UH in points off of turnovers, 14-to-7 and had just 14 turnovers to UH's 18.

Hawai'i remains on the road for one more game before Christmas at CSU Bakersfield on Tuesday, Dec. 23 at 1:00 p.m.