With just over six minutes left in the third quarter of Wednesday night’s road game against Heidelberg, Amy Bullimore passed the ball to Jenna Dirksen at the top of the key. She then received a back-screen from Courtney Cramer, which allowed her to cut freely to the far block. Dirksen passed Bullimore the ball and she was hacked across the arm by a Heidelberg defender as she attempted a layup.
Two shots at the free throw line.
Coming into Wednesday’s game, Bullimore was just four points
away from breaking the ONU women’s basketball career scor- ing record. But after foul trouble limited her production in the first half, Bullimore had just two points to this point. Standing alone at the charity stripe, the senior center now had a chance to climb atop the record books.
As she’s done countless times in gyms from Ada to her hometown of Morrow, and now in a packed gym in Tiffin, she spun the ball out to herself, then dribbled it low three times.
First shot, swoosh.
After missing the second free throw, fellow senior Alexis Kirkbride corralled the offensive rebound and fired a shot from the left wing. The shot rimmed out, but Bullimore snagged the rebound and was fouled again.
On her next set of free throws, Bullimore missed the first. But on the second free throw, with another shot at history, the All- American didn’t miss.