Burnaby’s Jacey Bailey helped her Northern Arizona Lumberjacks pull off an impressive come-from-behind win over Sacramento State last week in NCAA women’s basketball.
The six-foot-tall guard tallied 12 points, gathered six rebounds and registered the team’s lone block, as the ‘Jacks charged back from a 53-42 deficit. In the fourth quarter, Bailey corralled an offensive rebound that would lead to Khiarica Rasheed’s game-tying free throw.
The game would be decided on a last-second jumper by Kaleigh Paplow, and pulled Northern Arizona into a tie with Sacramento in Big Sky Conference standings, at 5-10.
It came on the heels of a disappointing 74-59 loss to Portland State, where a slow start proved too much to overcome. Bailey counted 10 points and four rebounds while playing a season-best 38 minutes.
A week earlier, the Burnaby Mountain alumna netted a career-best 25 points and five boards in the Lumberjacks’ 81-77 victory over Idaho State. Bailey proved red-hot from outside the arc, sinking seven of 12 three-point shots.
A sophomore, Bailey is in her first season at Northern Arizona after transferring from Florida Atlantic in 2017 and red-shirting last season.