SANTA CLARITA, Calif. – The Carroll College women's basketball team came back from a big deficit to take a fourth-quarter lead, but the Saints could not sustain the barrage against 18th-ranked The Master's who earned a 74-64 win Monday night.
 
Junior forward Hannah Dean scored a career-high 23 points and added nine rebounds, and senior point guard Bailey Pasta was 5-7 from the three-point line en route to 19 points.
 
The first quarter was a back-and-forth battle, but the Mustangs hit back-to-back shots to close out the frame with a 21-16 lead.
 
The Master's extended the lead 41-29 with 1:32 to play in the half, but Carroll cut it to 41-33 at the half on a buzzer-beater from Dean.
 
Carroll started to chip away at the lead in the second half and tied the game on a jumper from Taylor Salonen with 54 seconds remaining, but TMU would regain the lead with 17 seconds remaining.
 
Pasta buried a three-pointer to give Carroll a 51-50 lead to start the fourth quarter. The two teams traded buckets, but leading 61-60 with 3:50 remaining, The Master's went on a 9-0 run to build a 70-60 lead with just 54 seconds remaining.
 
The two teams traded points over the final minute and a bucket by Salonen in the final seconds closed the scoring 74-64.
 
Carroll was 25-58 (43.1 percent) from the field and 6-15 (40 percent) from the three-point line.
 
Hannah Forrar led the Master's with 21 points and eight rebounds. Sabrina Thompson scored 15, and Anika Neuman and Brooke Bailey had 11 points each.
 
The Master's was 23-48 (47.9 percent) from the field and 10-22 (45.5 percent) from the three-point line.  
 
Carroll now had nearly two weeks off before playing at MSU-Northern on Dec. 2 to open the Frontier Conference season.