MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — Some days as a sportswriter, you just have to smile as the story falls right in your lap.
A tightly contested overtime win, like Middle Tennessee women's basketball had against UTEP on Saturday afternoon? That would've been catnip for any writer.
But to have the difference in the final scoreline, 72-68, be decided by the final five points in the game for the Lady Raiders' coming from the program's two graduating seniors, Alexis Whittington and Kseniya Malashka? You couldn't write a script like that.
Well, maybe you could, given Jalynn Gregory's free throws were the points that gave MTSU the lead for good in the overtime period.