Honolulu, Hawaii - The Georgetown University women's basketball team erased a nine-point halftime lead and freshman guard Shanice Fuller (Chesapeake, Va./Indian River) scored a game-winning layup with 4.1 seconds remaining to give the Hoyas a hard-fought 79-77 win over Eastern Kentucky in the Consolation Game of the Waikiki Beach Marriott Classic on Saturday afternoon hosted by the University of Hawaii. The Hoyas had four players score in double-figures for the first time this season to improve to 1-2 on the year while EKU falls to 1-2.

Kieraah Marlow (Coatesville, Md.) had a game-high 20 points and junior Kristin Heidloff (Chicago, Ill./Fenwick) tallied 16 points, four assists and three steals in 38 minutes. Senior Kate Carlin (Ambler, Pa./Mt. St. Joseph Acad.) dumped in 13 points off the bench while sophomore Katrina Wheeler (Washington, D.C./T. Roosevelt) added 10 points.

In the second half, GU yielded just 25 Colonel points. The Hoyas shot allowed just seven EKU points through the opening seven minutes of the second half while Georgetown clawed to within 61-59 after Meredith Cox (Hanover, Pa./Delone Catholic) stole a pass and fed Heidloff for a fast break layup at 12:05.

Down 75-72 with 2:22 left, Wheeler scored on a pretty give-and-go from Marlow.

On the next EKU possession, Fuller then stepped in front of an EKU pass giving the Hoyas the ball back with exactly two minutes. remaining. On the ensuing Hoya offensive set, Heidloff came off a screen and drilled a long three-pointer from the top of the key to tie the game at 75-75.

Fuller once again stole an Eastern Kentucky pass to get GU the ball back. -After a Georgetown timeout, Diop scored the go ahead bucket after taking a pass from a Cox baseline pass giving the Hoyas a 77-75 lead with 21 seconds remaining forcing Eastern Kentucky to call a timeout to set up a game-tying play.

Amber Kirkpatrick was fouled on the next trip down the floor and made two free throws to even the score, 77-77 with ten seconds to go. Fuller took the inbounds pass and raced up court and converted a driving layup for the go ahead bucket.

"We told the kids that basketball was simple, play offense and play defense," said third year Georgetown head coach Terri Williams-Flournoy. "Until we did that, we weren't going to win. Eastern shot well in the first half but we gave them a bunch of open looks that they took advantage of."

The Hoyas raced out to a 10-0 lead to start the game and held a 21-10 lead seven minutes into the game. The Hoyas made six of their first ten shots from the floor with Heidloff and Marlow each scoring five points in the early going.

EKU cut it to 28-26 with a 17-8 spurt of their own. Junior Niki Avery hit three three-pointers in a three minute stretch before the Colonels took their first lead at 29-28 on a Kirkpatrick post-move layup with 8:07 to go.

Eastern Kentucky held a 13-point lead, 43-30 with 4:53 left after a Tamika Bowers baseline jumper. The Colonels shot 75 percent 15-20 through the first 15 minutes of the half and shot a blistering 76 percent in the half (19-25), including 8-12 from behind the three-point line.

Georgetown made 50 percent of their first half shots from the floor (15-30), their best first half shooting performance of the year thus far.

Marlow has now gone over the 800-point mark for her career, surpassing Nok Duany (1999-03)

Carlin made three treys on the afternoon and has converted on 102 in her career, good enough for fifth on the school's all-time list.

The Hoyas host Fordham on Wednesday, November 22 at 7:30 p.m. at McDonough Arena.