BALTIMORE, Md. – Loyola rallied from a 10-point deficit and notched the game-winning basket with 9.9 seconds remaining to earn a 55-54 victory against Mount St. Mary's in non-conference women's basketball action on Monday.

Mary Dunn (Whippany, N.J./Morris Catholic) paced the Mount (3-2) with 15 points and eight rebounds while Leah Westbrooks (Dublin, Ireland/Holy Faith Secondary School) posted 12 points and seven rebounds and Lauren Howell (Quinton, N.J./Sacred Heart) added 12 points off the bench in the loss.

After the Mount St. Mary's turned the ball over with 27 seconds remaining, Candice Walker converted the first free throw and then missed the second. The Greyhounds (4-2) retained possession on the rebound out of bounds and then Meredith Tolley scored the game-winning bucket on a layup with 9.9 seconds remaining off a Kaitlin Grant assist. Alex Berlin then snatched the ball away from the Mountaineers with time running out before the Mount could get off a shot to seal the victory.

Siobhan Prior fueled Loyola with 12 points and Grant tallied 11 points and 13 rebounds in the winning effort.

Playing at Reitz Arena for the first time since the 1995-96 season, the Mount had control of the game for most of the night before the Greyhounds ended the game on a 13-2 to come away with its third-straight win against the Mountaineers since the two teams renewed its in-state rivalry three years ago.

Dunn gave Mount St. Mary's a 52-42 lead on a traditional 3-point play with 4:04 on the clock, but then Loyola started to mount its comeback. Grant converted two free throws at 3:49 and Walker scored in the paint at 2:20 to trim the margin to six points. After Dunn answered by hitting two at the line to reclaim an eight-point advantage, Grant and Miriam McKenzie each hit 1 of 2 at the line and Prior nailed two charity tosses with 49.5 seconds on the clock, 54-50.

Hassanah Oliver (Hillside, N.J./Hillside) then missed two at the free throws five seconds later. Down four points, Grant scored in the paint with 34.1 seconds on the clock and Walker hit the front end of two at the free throw line with 26.5 remaining before Tolley handed the hosts the victory.

After Loyola started the game with back-to-back baskets, the Mount went on a 10-0 run to take a 10-4 thanks to six points from Dunn.

The Greyhounds fought back to take a 21-17 lead fueled by a 17-7 run. With the Mountaineers holding a 16-13 margin, Prior scored eight of the next nine points on a pair of 3-pointers and a basket in the paint to hand Loyola the lead in the first half for the final time with 5:37 on the clock.

Mount St. Mary's responded to end the stanza on a 12-2 run to go into the locker room with a 29-23 advantage. Howell started the surge with a 3-ball at 5:20 before Courtney Nyce (Schwenksville, Pa./Perkiomen Valley) scored on a layup at the 4:50 mark to give the Mount a 22-21 edge. After Howell drained her second 3-pointer of the half, McKenzie answered with a layup at 2:17 to cut the deficit to two points. Dunn and Brianna Gauthier (Severna Park, Md./St. Mary's) capped the run and ended the half by each recording a basket for a six-point lead at the break.

Mount St. Mary's maintained the advantage throughout the second half and grabbing as large as a 10-point lead on two occasions, but could not hold on for the win.

Gauthier finished with four points, six assists, five rebounds and five steals in the loss.

Mount St. Mary's is in the midst of its 35 season of women's basketball in Emmitsburg. The squad played its first-ever contest on Dec. 4, 1974, falling to Loyola 60-31.

The Mountaineers return to action on Saturday in the first Northeast Conference game of the year at Central Connecticut State. Game time is 4 p.m.