The Cerritos College women’s basketball team took on the Mt. San Antonio Mounties, coached by Laura Beeman on Wednesday.

The Mounties went on a 16-0 run early in the first half.

Cerritos came back from the resilient play of Marci Wong who finished the night with 16 points.

The Falcons coached by Karen Welliver went into the locker room at half time down, but not out, the team managed to erase a 16-point deficit.

Nicole McCarthy put up 6 points and Jennifer Weathers whom finished with 12 points helped fuel the Falcons’ first half-come back.

The Mounties countered with the two leading scorers Ashley Lavender and Tyesha Floyd, who combined for 32 points.

After an exhilarating half the game came down to 6 seconds left on the clock.

The Falcons had the two-point lead with possession of the ball Claudia Rodriguez is fouled and thus put on the line for two shots.

She makes the first and inherits the ability to for all intensive purposes end the game.

But she misses and it’s a three-point game with 6 seconds to go.

The Mounties hurry up-court with a quick pass to set up to Floyd for the game tying shot.

The shot is good and the Mounties send it into overtime.

Cerritos trailed in overtime, but threatened to take the game into double overtime. They were able to control the back boards enough to force the extra time thanks to the solid forward play of the sister duo LaVonne Amete (7 points) and Tiffany Amete (13 points) in the overtime.

In the second overtime the Mounties took over and pulled out the win.

The Final score was 74-66 in favor of the Mounties.

Both teams had three players with double-digit points.

Cerritos very own Wong, Weathers, and Amete and as for the Mounties, Lavender, Floyd, and Stephanie Gollaz each put up 11 points.

Both teams had good offensive games but the Mounties had more in the end.

Although Cerritos came back from 16 point deficit and powered their way back into second overtime, the Falcons had nothing left and lost the game.

The Cerritos College women’s basketball team drops to 12-8 , while the Mounties improve to 14-9. Cerritos will face Los Angeles Harbor today at 5:30 at LA Harbor.