BELOIT, Wis. -- The Lawrence University women's basketball team got clutch plays from multiple players Wednesday in an 80-76 Midwest Conference overtime victory over Beloit College at Flood Arena.
    Ashley Batac led five Lawrence players in double figures with a career-high 24 points. Batac was 6-for-12 from the floor and drained three 3-pointers while also picking up four rebounds, three steals and two assists.
    Lawrence rookie Maggie Culver posted the first double-double of her career with 16 points and a game-high 14 rebounds. Kenya Earl picked up 14 points, seven rebounds, three assists and two blocks for the Vikings (7-9, 4-4 MWC).
    Lawrence's Lydia Lueck added 10 points, including a big 3-pointer, and three rebounds, and Mallory Meyer also had 10 points, four assists and four rebounds to go along with making the biggest two free throws of the night.
    T'Aira Boyance paced Beloit (4-12, 0-8) with 20 points.
    Lawrence led throughout the game, but Beloit was within striking distance in the second half and took the lead at 55-54 with 3:39 left in the fourth quarter. 
    Lawrence trailed by three when Lueck, a rookie guard, hit a jumper to trim the lead to 57-56. Boyance answered for Beloit, but Earl knocked down two free throws to cut the lead to 59-58. After a jumper by Beloit's Elizabeth Kalk put the Bucs up 61-58, Lueck banked in a 3-pointer with 34 seconds left to tie the game at 61-61.
    Beloit's Johanna McNair hit a layup with 2.0 seconds left to give the Bucs a 63-61 edge. The Vikings called timeout and advanced the ball to the frontcourt. Delaney Brooks lobbed a pass toward Meyer at the basket, who was fouled with 0.1 seconds remaining.
    Meyer drained both free throws to tie the game at 63-63 and force overtime.
    Beloit missed its first four shots from the floor in the overtime, and Lawrence was holding a slim 65-64 lead when Brooks buried a critical 3-pointer from the left wing for a 68-64 advantage.
    After another Beloit miss, Culver's driving layup gave the Vikings a 70-64 lead with 2:13 remaining. Beloit's Hannah Welte was fouled on a 3-point attempt and converted all three shots to cut the lead to 70-67.
    The teams traded free throws as Earl hit three and Batac added one to give the Vikings a 74-69 lead with 48 ticks remaining.
    Boyance's layup cut the lead to 74-71 with 29 seconds left, but Batac hit two free throws and Culver hit four foul shots in a row to secure the victory. Lawrence went 12-for-16 from the foul line in the overtime.
     The game featured 58 fouls, including 35 by Beloit, which had four players foul out. Lawrence went 34-of-44 (77.3 percent) from the foul line in the contest. The Bucs were 14-of-23 from the stripe.
    The 34 free throws made is a Lawrence record, eclipsing the mark of 32 set against Illinois College on Jan. 24, 1998. The 44 attempts is second only to the 46 foul shots the Vikings took against Carroll University on Feb. 2, 1994.
    Lawrence returns to action on Saturday when the Vikings host Lake Forest College at Alexander Gymnasium.