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Bailey helps Lumberjacks rally past Sacramento

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.
Jacey Bailey
Burnaby's Jacey Bailey counted 12 points in helping Northern Arizona come from behind to knock off Sacramento State last week.

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.