Lady Red Wolves win "School Day Game" thriller, 60-57

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Arkansas State was able to hold on against Mississippi Valley State, earning a 60-57 victory. The A-State Women are now on a four-game winning streak and hope to extend it next Friday at Belmont.

The “School Day Game” saw First National Bank Arena packed with local elementary school children. There were over 5000 students in attendance, and they were all loud and proud for the Red Wolves. To break the fourth wall, it was probably the most fun environment I’ve ever been a part of at a basketball game at the college level.

“We’ve had a lot of games where we have started slow and ended strong this season, but today it was the opposite,” Arkansas State head coach Brian Boyer said. “The good news is we still ended up with the win and I thought the start of the game was great. I thought we had them on the ropes coming out of the first quarter, but we just had some careless mistakes that kept us from putting them away.”

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