TACOMA, Wash. – Casey Poe's running jumper with seven seconds left in regulation pulled Whitman College even and sent the game into overtime, but host University of Puget Sound rained down a couple more 3-pointers in the extra period to take an 84-79 win from the Missionaries in the semifinal round of the Northwest Conference 2016 Women's Basketball Championship tournament.

Whitman (17-8) actually hit more shots from the floor, 29-27, than did the Loggers (19-7), but 10 of the UPS shots came from beyond the arc to spell the difference in the outcome.

The Whitties out rebounded the Loggers, 36-29, and received 32 points from their bench compared to just four points all game from the UPS substitutes. And Whitman outscored the Loggers by nine points in the second quarter to erase a four-point deficit, taking a 31-26 advantage into the halftime break.

Hitting more than a third of your shots from 3-point-land will do wonders for your score, though, and UPS just seemed to hit the big trey each time it really needed one.

Whitman had battled back from a UPS 13-0 run late in the third quarter, which closed with the Loggers owning their biggest lead of the game at 50-42, scratching and clawing back to within five when Alysse Ketner dropped in a three to trim the deficit to just two.

A UPS turnover gave the ball back to the Whitties and Hailey Ann Maeda turned that opportunity into a short jumper from within the paint to bring Whitman all the back, into a 63-63 tie.

An Emily Rommel jumper and a Ketner free throw sandwiched around a Logger layup left Whitman ahead by a point with two minutes remaining in the game. But Samone Jackson's trey flipped the lead back to UPS its next time down the court.

Poe tied the game with a layup only to have Alex Noren splash a jumper to lift the Loggers in front with 27 ticks left in regulation.

A quick timeout allowed Whitman to inbounds the ball from just inside the half-court line, and that play almost derailed the comeback as the pass was fumbled away. The desperate Whitties were able to regain possession, however, and set up for the final shot. As the clock wound past 10 seconds to go Poe picked up her dribble high atop the key and drove down the right side, eventually stopping an pumping in a running eight-footer to tie the game at 70-70.

First a Maeda layup then a jumper from Chelsi Brewer moved Whitman in front, 74-70, in the opening minutes of the overtime period. But a Whitman turnover after it had forced a Logger turnover turned into an Emily Sheldon – the conference player of the year – 3-pointer.

Whitman missed two shots on its next possession and the defensive rebound off the second transitioned into a jumper from Elizabeth Prewitt to erase the Whittie's early advantage.

Poe answered with a jumper of her own but Sheldon responded with another trey, again just when her team needed one.

Still, this game had 100 seconds left and Whitman's Brewer wasn't going to let it end with Sheldon's long-range dead-eye. Brewer dropped her own 3-pointer in from the left wing to flip the lead again.

That's where the road would end, though, for Brewer and Whitman. Whitman pulled down a defensive rebound on the Loggers' next possession but in transition UPS' Samone registered a steal and a break-away layup. Another Whitman turnover forced the fouling game to commence and first Sheldon then Allie Wyszynski completed pairs of free throw attempts to ice the game and provide its final, misleading, five-point margin.

Seventeen lead changes and nine ties show how evenly matched this contest was, but the figure that rings out was the success UPS had from outside the arc. Whitman hit its shots, they just happen to come from hard work inside the arc while the Loggers let it fly.

Brewer came off the bench to lead Whitman's scoring efforts with 21 points. Playing in what is likely their final collegiate game, seniors Hailey Ann Maeda and Hailey McDonald also reached double digits, each finishing with 12 points. Poe proved clutch down the stretch and added 13 points.

On the glass the Missionaries' Sierra McGarity set a career high in ripping down a game-best 11 rebounds in the loss.

For the Loggers, Sheldon registered a 23-point night, Samone added 19 points which included four 3-pointers, and Alex Noren chipped in with 17 points as that trio registered the bulk of points for the Loggers who advance into the championship game of the conference tournament Saturday, at No. 2 George Fox University.