MARSHALL, Minn. - Concordia-St. Paul women's basketball (15-12, 11-10 NSIC) picked up an 80-64 road win at Southwest Minnesota State (3-22, 3-18 NSIC) at R/A Facility on Friday night.

The win gives Concordia two straight on the road and the Golden Bears are winners of four of their last six overall. The Golden Bears close out the regular season tomorrow at Sioux Falls at 6 p.m. at Stewart Center.

Concordia also learned it will not host an NSIC Sanford Health Tournament first round game, as Augustana eliminated the Golden Bears from hosting contention by defeating Upper Iowa 61-44 in Fayette, Iowa tonight.

The Golden Bears were led by Ameshia Kearney's 27 points which tied a career-high set just 10 days ago in Concordia's most recent road game at Minnesota State. It was her third 20-plus point game of the season and 22nd double-digit scoring game. She finished the night 6-13 from the floor, made a pair of three-pointers and was 13-14 at the foul line.

Whiting notched her third-straight 20-plus point game and seventh of the season. She's topped double-digits 24 times in 27 games. She was 8-19 from the floor and 5-6 at the line with six rebounds, three assists and two blocks.

After defeating the Mustangs 82-46 in St. Paul on January 24, SMSU was ready to protect its home court playing host to its Pink Zone night on the final home weekend of the season.

The Mustangs started strong, building a 13-4 lead just over five minutes into play and opened up a 12-point lead (26-14) with just under eight minutes to play in the half.

From there, Whiting and Kearney took over. A 17-3 run by the Golden Bears was sparked by nine points from Whiting and six from Kearney to give Concordia its first lead, 31-29 with just over two minutes to play until the break.

A three-pointer by Kayla Miller on a pass from Whiting gave Concordia a 1-point lead, 34-33 at the break.

Concordia pushed the lead up to nine, 46-37 in the opening three and a half minutes of the second half before SMSU rallied for nine straight points to tie the game at 46 with just over 13 minutes to play.

A three-point play by Whiting snapped the run and opened up a 15-4 spurt and Concordia never lost the lead from there.

The lead stayed at least eight points the rest of the game and swelled as large as 17 (76-59) with 2:55 to go.

The only other Golden Bear in double-figures was Lauren Shifflett with 11 off the bench on 4-6 shooting. Kionda Nicks led the team inside with seven rebounds and three blocked shots.

Concordia and SMSU were nearly identical from the field with Concordia shooting 43.9 percent (25-57) to SMSU's 44.6 percent (25-56). SMSU made one more three-pointer (6) than Concordia (5) with Concordia (18) taking two more three's than SMSU (16).

The big difference was free throw shooting as Concordia reached the foul line 14 more times, scoring 17 more points. The Golden Bears were 25-33 (75.8%) while SMSU was just 8-19 (42.1%).

Concordia also only turned the ball over eight times while dishing out 16 assists and forcing 12 Mustang turnovers. That led to Concordia outscoring SMSU 22-11 off turnovers and 10-2 in transition.

The Mustangs were led by Lauren Hedlund's 17 points and eight rebounds off the bench while Emilee Duske had 14 points and eight rebounds as a starter.