ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Freshman Elsa Olson (Cottage Grove, Minn./Park) scored the UW-Superior women's basketball team's final four points in overtime to hand Northwestern its first Upper Midwest Athletic Conference loss of the season with a 57-55 victory at the Ericksen Center on Saturday.
 
Olson -- who had six points and three rebounds in the win -- converted a jumper and layup 44 seconds apart late in the extra session to give the Yellowjackets the lead, which they held onto. The Eagles, who claimed the UMAC regular-season title for the third consecutive season with a win over Northland on Friday, trailed by as many as six points in the fourth quarter before battling back.
 
Knotted, 48-48, with eight seconds remaining in regulation, senior Kaelyn Christian (St. Michael, Minn./St. Michael-Albertville Senior) was charged with a blocking foul that sent Lexi Hagen to the foul line. Hagen knocked down both shots for the lead. Sophomore Elise Besonen (Ewen, Mich./Ewen-Trout Creek) then drove the length of the court and found classmate Katie Dobson (Black River Falls, Wis./Black River Falls) for a baseline jumper, which Dobson drained for the tie, with 1.1 seconds left. 
 
Northwestern (15-8, 11-1) could not get a shot off at the buzzer, setting the stage for overtime. Dobson splashed a 3-pointer on Superior's first possession of the extra session for a 53-50 lead. Over the ensuing three minutes, the Eagles canned three free throws to draw even again, 53-53, prior to Olson's jumper with 1:08 to play that gave UWS (8-13, 6-6) a 55-53 edge.
 
Following a Yellowjackets' timeout, Olson hit the layup for a four-point cushion. Megan McGeough responded with a basket of her own with three seconds left, but it was too little, too late for the Eagles.
 
Dobson finished with a game-high 16 points on 6-for-11 shooting, including 4-of-7 from 3-point range. Besonen tallied 13 points, three rebounds and two steals as UWS snapped a four-game skid against he Eagles, winning for the first time since Feb. 26, 2020, a 90-83 victory at Mertz Mortorelli Gymnasium.
 
UWS was up, 14-7, after one period and 24-18 at halftime, getting 11 points on 3-for-6 shooting from Besonen in the opening half. 
 
UWS held the Eagles to 32.7 percent from the field for the game, but the Eagles made their way back into the contest with the help of a 6-for-11 effort (54.5 percent) in the fourth quarter.
 
Hagen led Northwestern with 15 points and two blocked shots, while Jasmine Sondol added 11 points, two assists and two blocks in 16 minutes off of the bench.
 
UWS returns home Friday to face Minnesota Morris at 7:15 p.m., at Mortorelli Gym.