Salem, Va. -- Despite Brooke Vetter's first-career double-double and Olivia Harris' career-high 22 points, University of Lynchburg's women's basketball team lost its second-straight contest Thursday night, a 79-76 defeat at the hands of Elizabethtown in the finale of Roanoke College's Susan Dunagan Holiday Classic.

Harris' 22 points led four Hornets in double figures in the game. Vetter followed with 13 points and 11 rebounds, and Kate Kolb and Lizzie Davis scored 14 and 11, respectively.

The two teams played a back-and-forth first period before Elizabethtown knocked down 3s on back-to-back possessions at quarter's end to lead 24-17 after 10 minutes of play.

The Blue Jays opened the lead up to nine in the second, but a 7-0 run exclaimed by Harris' layup pulled Lynchburg back into the game. The Hornets trailed, 39-36, at halftime.

Elizabethtown maintained the narrow lead throughout the third quarter and into the fourth until another Harris bucket tied the game, 57-57, with 9:10 left; it marked the first time Lynchburg worked the score even since the 7:51 mark in the first.

The Hornets took a one-point lead on Meredith Vetter's basket with 7:12 to play and extended it on Kolb's bucket with 6:05 left. After the Blue Jays tied the game, Lynchburg retook the lead and extended it to seven on Erin Green's jumper with 3:24 left in the game.

The Blue Jays stormed back in the late going. A couple Davis free throws put Lynchburg ahead by four with 1:24 left, but Cyleigh Wilson hit an Elizabethtown 3 just north of the minute mark and then, after a Hornets miss, Wilson knocked down another 3 to put the Blue Jays in front. Davis tied the game at 76 with a basket of her own at the 24-second mark, but Wilson canned another 3 with 7 seconds on the clock to cinch the win for the Blue Jays.

Harris' effort marked the fourth-straight time the reigning Old Dominion Athletic Conference player of the week reached double figures, and Davis' nine assists gave her 254 for her career, making her the sixth player in Lynchburg women's basketball history to cross the 250-assist plateau.

The Hornets (6-5) will break for the New Year before returning to conference play on January 5 with a trip to Guilford and a 7:30 p.m. tip. Lynchburg is currently 2-2 in ODAC competition.

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