LONGVIEW – LeTourneau won for the third time in the last four games on a night three YellowJackets scored in double figures.

LETU beat The Ozarks, 71-58, Thursday in Solheim Arena – a place the Jackets are now 3-2 this season. The win bumped LeTourneau's record to 6-6 overall, 2-1 in the American Southwest Conference.

"We've found a way, found a way to get it done," Jackets coach Cassi Rozanski said. "I'm just so proud that we didn't quit. Our energy felt a little down today, and I really talked to them about that today at halftime because that's not us. We have energy, we work hard and we should get all the loose balls. We weren't quite doing that, but they definitely woke up in the third and fourth quarter, and found a way to make it happen."

The YellowJackets overcame a deficit of 34-30 at halftime and 48-45 after three quarters by putting the Eagles (5-8, 0-4 ASC) away in the final period with a 26-10 blitzing. Vanessa Cruz scored 1:55 into the fourth to pull the YellowJackets within one before Carly Grace Dougan sank a pair of free throws on the next trip down the floor. But Keauna Whitfield buried a three on an assist from Cruz to tie the game at 50.

Micayla Mikulski sank two free throws, and then scored in transition and sank a free throw to convert a three-point play after Scruffy Hopkins came up with one of her three steals to give LETU a five-point cushion with 6:20 remaining. Kamryn McKinney scored 20 seconds later to pull the Eagles within 55-52, but Mikulski sank a pair from the stripe, and Whitfield buried another three on a repeat setup from Cruz at the 4:16 mark to stretch the lead to eight.

The Eagles cut it to five on Kelsey Dixson's lay-in with 1:44 to go, but Cruz scored on the next trip down the floor, and then sank two free throws with just under a minute remaining to make it a nine-point game. Mikulski and Whitfield combined to make four free throws down the stretch, and The Ozarks failed to convert in crunch time.

"I saw the game was close, and we were running out of time, and I got to strap on my backpack and see what I could do," Mikulski said after recording her first double-double as a YellowJacket. "We all work very hard, we see the potential that we have as players, and we all come together really nice."

Mikulski finished with 16 points, 10 rebounds and three steals. Cruz had 14 points, five assists and a steal. Whitfield had 13 points, nine boards and three assists. Flora Akingbade had nine points, 10 rebounds, including six on the offensive glass, two blocks and a steal.

Dixson had 12 points, Kerigan Bradshaw 11 points and eight rebounds, and McKinney 10 points for the Eagles.

LETU outrebounded Ozarks, 47-34, with a 22-8 advantage on the offensive end. Four of Whitfield's nine boards came on the offensive glass, and Mikulski had three. The YellowJackets forced 16 turnovers, while committing nine themselves.

"That's kind of been our story," Rozanski said. "We outrebound people, we had less turnovers, we caused them to turn over … we just got to make some shots."

LeTourneau had 14 assists on 18 field goals. The Ozarks had 15 on 21. LETU was 18 of 62 from the field, including 6 of 18 from long range. Ozarks went 21 of 51 from the floor, and 6 of 17 from the three-point line.

The YellowJackets will host No. 25 Texas at Dallas 1 p.m. Saturday.

"We're going to hold them to that high expectation, and hopefully just keep getting better and better," Rozanski said. "We'll just keep working at it."