TOWSON, Md. – Towson scored with 9.1 seconds left to upend Mount St. Mary's 71-70 in non-conference women's basketball action on Tuesday.

Sydney Henderson (Mechanicsville, Va./Atlee) paced the Mount (1-3) with a career-high 20 points. Jessie Kaufman (Damascus, Md./Damascus) added 12 points while Ashley Christie (Miamisburg, Ohio/Archishop Alter) and Selina Mann (Gainesville, Va./Battlefield) each had 10 points. Mann also had eight assists and three steals in the loss.

Christie nailed a 3-pointer with 35.9 seconds left to give Mount St. Mary's a 70-68 advantage. Krystin Fields made it a one-point game after hitting the backend of two free throws with 14.2 second remaining. On the ensuing inbounds play, the Mountaineers went for a Hail Mary pass, but Sheree Ledbetter was able to deflect it and Tanisha McTiller scooped up the loose ball and scored in the lane with 9.1 seconds on the clock. Mount St. Mary's was able to get on the offensive end and Christie's shot in the closing seconds went off the backboard and McTiller came up with the rebound to secure the win.

Krystal Parnell paced the Tigers (3-1) with 18 points while Ledbetter added 13 points and Nyree Williams tallied 12 points and 11 rebounds in the winning effort.

After a near flawless first half from the Mount that led to a 39-30 advantage, Towson used its size advantage to grab 29 rebounds, shoot 24 free throws and pick up 15 points off second chances to rally for the one-point victory.

Mount St. Mary's maintained the advantage throughout the second half, but the Tigers kept chipping away at the deficit. The Mount had an eight-point lead after Tara Lonergan (Rockville Centre, N.Y./South Side) nailed two free throws with 8:35 left for a 61-53 advantage.

Towson would then outscore the Mountaineers 18-9 the rest of the way to come away with the come-from-behind victory. Parnell keyed the run to tie the game with six-straight points before Fields knotted the game at 61 on a basket in the paint at 5:07.

Christie momentarily regained the lead for Mount St. Mary's on a layup with 4:21 left before McTiller answered with a second-chance layup at 3:45. Rachel Mathews (Midlothian, Va./Midlothian) regained the lead again for the Mount on a jumper at 3:25 for a 65-63 lead.

Fields then converted 1 of 2 at the line at 2:30 and then scored in the paint at 1:54 to give Towson its first lead since the first half at 66-65. Sandra Andresson (Tallinn, Estonia/Audentes School) responded for the Mountaineers with a layup at 1:25 to give the visitors a 67-66 lead.

Parnell then hit the front end of two free throws with 57 seconds on the clock and Williams gave the Tigers a 68-67 edge by hitting the second of two charity tosses five seconds later. Christie then nailed a 3-pointer from the far baseline to give the Mount its final lead and set up the dramatics to end the game.

In the first half, Mount St. Mary's took the advantage six minutes into the stanza and held the lead up the final two minutes of the contest. Trailing 9-8 at 15:01, the Mount went on a 14-4 run over the next six minutes to take a 22-13 advantage.

Henderson started the run with a 3-pointer at 14:42 to reclaim the lead for the Mountaineers at 11-9. After Christie hit two free throws at 13:11, McTiller answered with a jumper at 12:00. Mount St. Mary's then scored the next six points thanks to baskets in the paint by Mathews, Lonergan and Henderson to give the Mount a 19-11 advantage. Williams momentarily halted the offensive outburst with a layup, but Henderson knocked down her third trey of the night at 9:01 for a 22-13 lead.

The Tigers scored seven of the next 10 points to trim the margin to 25-20, but Henderson scored in the lane and Kaufman nailed a 3-pointer at 3:35 to give the Mount its first double-digit lead of the stanza. The two teams then traded Mount treys by Henderson and Grossett with layups by Deree Fooks to hand the Mountaineers a 36-24 lead with 2:31 on the clock.

Towson then scored six unanswered points thanks to baskets by Williams, McTiller and Ledbetter to cut the deficit to 36-30 with 50.9 ticks left. Mount St. Mary's got the ball back with less than five seconds left underneath the Tigers' basket. Towson tried to run out the clock by fouling Mount St. Mary's each time it inbounded the ball, but the third attempt Mann went up for a shot from behind the arc with 0.2 seconds left and was fouled. The junior then went to the foul line and converted all three charity tosses to give the Mountaineers a 39-30 lead going into the locker room.

Mount St. Mary's connected on 8 of 12 attempts from 3-point land in the first half.

The Mount will make its 2011-12 Knott Arena debut against Navy on Saturday. Game time is 3 p.m.