Staff report

ROCK HILL, S.C. — An eight-minute scoring drought led to the end of the women’s basketball season for Catawba in Wednesday’s South Atlantic Conference Tournament quarterfinals.

Fourth-seeded Wingate (19-10) beat fifth-seeded Catawba 61-56.

Wingate shot 34 percent, was 6-for-20 on 3-pointers and made 17 turnovers, not attractive stats, but the Bulldogs still got the win. Laney Beale scored 22 points.

Catawba (17-12) was 6-for-32 on 3-pointers — that’s 18.8 percent — and that was deadly to the Indians’ chances. Catawba shot 36.2 percent from the floor.

Catawba trailed by as many as 13 in the first half, but came back to take the lead in the third quarter. A 3-pointer by Bailee Goodlett (North Rowan) was part of that comeback.

Wingate led 45-43 going to the fourth quarter, but scored the first seven of the fourth quarter and started to pull away.

Janiya Foskey had 17 points and nine rebounds for Catawba. Nala Baker scored 13.

Wingate advanced to Thursday’s semifinals and will play No. 1 seed Coker.

Catawba     13    8     22    13    — 56

Wingate      15   15    15     16    — 61

CATAWBA scoring  — Foskey 17, Baker 13, Porter 5, Fuertes Lara 5, Goodlett 5, Spry 4, Gueterman 3, Dixon-Booker 2, Williams 2.