Calvin finishes Hope sweep

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Marcia Harris scored 20 points on 9-for-12 shooting and Kristi Brummel and Lisa Winkle added 12 and 11 respectively as No. 3 Calvin defeated No. 9 Hope 63-58 in overtime.

Stacy Warsen hit a layup for Hope to tie the game at 51-51 with 2:19 left in regulation and neither team scored again. Hope missed three chances on one possession with under a minute remaining. Hope (19-3, 11-3 MIAA) led briefly in overtime but a Harris fast-break layup and a three-point play by Winkle gave Calvin (21-1, 14-0) the lead for good.

Calvin clinched the top seed in the MIAA playoffs. Saturday's women's scores.

The road to the No. 1 spot in the poll might have opened up slightly for Calvin, as No. 1 Messiah fell 66-59 at Moravian. It's the third year in a row that Moravian has won at home against Messiah. Kelly Applegate scored 17 and Kate Harrison added 16 in the win. No. 5 Howard Payne won at Mary Hardin-Baylor behind 19 points apiece from Stacey Blalock and Meia Daniels, while tenth-ranked Illinois Wesleyan lost for the second game in a row, falling at Wheaton (Ill.) in a battle for first place in the CCIW. Wheaton improves to 15-6, 10-1.

The OAC got more jumbled, with No. 15 Wilmington losing at Mount Union 61-55 and No. 24 Capital losing to Ohio Northern 55-52. Ohio Northern pulled within two games of Wilmington and Capital in the conference standings.

Staci Humphrey recorded a triple-double (40 points, 15 rebounds, 11 assists) in 37 minutes of action in Greensboro's 108-54 rout of North Carolina Wesleyan. But SUNY-Old Westbury's Danna Purnell went one further, recording a quadruple double (14 points, 13 steals, 11 assists, 10 rebounds) in a 79-28 pounding of New Rochelle. Nathalie Lechault made senior day memorable in Stevens Point, as she made a free throw with 12.1 seconds left and No. 12 UW-Stout missed a short jumper in the closing seconds as UW-Stevens Point held on for a 74-71 win. St. Lawrence had its 20-game win streak snapped with a 60-47 home loss to William Smith.

Randolph-Macon coach Carroll LaHaye won her 400th career game as the Yellow Jackets beat Randolph-Macon Woman's College 63-33. Johns Hopkins coach Nancy Funk won her 500th -- scroll down for more.