NORTH DARTMOUTH, MASS. 2/19/11 – The Keene State College women's basketball team wrapped up its regular season with a 57-53 overtime loss to UMass-Dartmouth in Little East Conference action at the Tripp Athletic Center on Saturday.

The Owls (11-14, 4-10 LEC), who have dropped five of their last six games, will be the sixth seed in the upcoming LEC tournament and will travel to Eastern Conn. on Tuesday to take on the third-seeded Warriors.  Improving to 8-17 and 4-10 in conference play, UMass-Dartmouth will be the fifth seed and head to Providence to play fourth seed Rhode Island College in its quarterfinal tournament game.

Junior Courtney Cirillo (Windsor Locks, Conn.) notched her 12th double-double of the season, finishing with 17 points and 10 rebounds to lead the Owls.  Junior Meghan Farrell (Chester, Vt.) pulled down 14 rebounds.

Freshman Erika Bornemann (Canton, Mass.) had a game high 21 points and 15 rebounds and senior Tashauna Ashmeade (Hyannis, Mass.) finished with 11 points and 11 rebounds to lead the Corsairs.

Keene State tied the game with 49 seconds to play when Cirillo found sophomore Siobhan Carnell (Quincy, Mass.) down for the a lay-up to make it 49-all.

The Owls had a chance to get the go-ahead basket with four seconds to play in regulation, but Bornemann blocked Cirillo's shot.

In the overtime, Bornemann made a put-back basket to give UMD a 53-51 lead.  She later hit a couple of free throws from the line to give the Corsairs a 55-51 lead with 1:55 to go.

Farrell answered with a jumper to cut the lead to 55-53 with 1:43 to play, but Ashmeade hit two free throws with six seconds left on the clock to seal the win for the Corsairs.

Both teams struggled in the shooting department.  KSC hit just 16 of its 72 field goal attempts (22%) and were 5-22 (23%) from behind the arc.  UMD shot 33% from the field (22-66) and was 4-14 (29%) from three-point land.