OGDEN, Utah – Amy Patton hit a buzzer beating shot to lift Northern Arizona women's basketball to a 63-62 victory over Weber State at the Dee Events Center on Saturday night. Patton upped her season-high in points with 31 after turning in 30 points against Idaho State on Friday. She also added 10 rebounds for her sixth double-double of the year.

“It was an exciting basketball game,” said head coach Laurie Kelly. “We have been in a lot of these games this season where we got it down to single digits or one or two possessions. It feels great to finally have it come out on our end in a positive way.”

NAU (3-13, 1-2 BSC) has struggled early in games trailing at the half in 12 of its 16 games. On Saturday, the Lumberjacks entered the break down six points, but responded in the second half shooting 50.0-percent from the field. Patton scored 18 of her game-high 31 points on 8-of-14 shooting in the second half.

“We were down early right away and it seemed like we had no energy,” Kelly said. “We did same thing [Friday] night against Idaho State, but tonight we were able to make plays. We shot the ball a lot better in the second half and we played better team basketball.”

Rebounding has been a crucial thing for us all year and tonight we won on the glass 43-30. It is hard to win [in Ogden]. Weber State is a good basketball team. They are fundamental and shoot the ball well, but we did things down the stretch that we needed to do to win.”

With under a minute to play, Weber State's Ali Thorderson put the Wildcats up 62-61. After an NAU turnover, the Lumberjacks sent senior point guard Tonya Schnibbe to the free-throw line to potentially put Weber State up three. Schnibbe missed both free-throws giving NAU a chance for a last second shot. Patton answered the call and hit the game-winner as time expired.

“It was a very exciting game,” Kelly said. The team was so happy. I said to them it feels great to win, but we have to build off this. We need to have other people stepping up.”

Patton played a game-high 39 minutes and accounted for 49.2-percent of NAU's points on Saturday. Junior forward Lauren Hoisington was the only other Lumberjack in double figures totaling 13 points.

Schnibbe led Weber State (7-10, 1-2 BSC) with 23 points on 8-of-16 shooting. She went 7-of-10 from the free-throw line.

Three games into Big Sky Conference play NAU is positioned sixth in the league standings despite its 2-11 record in non-conference play.

“It is early in conference play,” said Kelly. “We have been on the road for so long, and the thought of coming home to play some games is very refreshing. We have to start putting these together.”

The Lumberjacks return to Flagstaff for the first time since December 10 with a pair of Big Sky contests. NAU will play Eastern Washington on Thursday, January 14 and Portland State on Saturday, January 16 at the Walkup Skydome. Both games are set for 6:35 p.m. tip-offs.