Sophomore Morgan Muhlbauer made a layup as time expired on Saturday afternoon which lifted the Buena Vista women's basketball to a thrilling 53-52 Iowa Conference road victory at Nebraska Wesleyan.

Trailing 52-51, BVU in bounded the ball in front of its own bench, made one pass to Muhlbauer who drove the lane and put it in off glass, just before the buzzer sounded, keeping the Beavers percet in conference play at 2-0.

NWU led 50-49 at the 5:14 mark of the fourth quarter, and neither team scored until BVU went in front 51-50 on Muhlbauer's layup with just over five seconds left.

After a Prairie Wolves timeout, they drew a foul on BVU with three seconds left and converted both free-throws to give them a one-point advantage.  That all set up Muhlbauer's heroics, as she finished with a season-high 10 points on 4-of-9 shooting.

The game was tied 13-13 after one quarter before the Beavers took a 30-22 lead into the half.

It remained an eight-point margin heading to the final stanza.  Claudia Larsen gave the Beavers their largest lead of the contest at 43-32 just into the fourth quarter before the Prairie Wolves went on an 18-6 run over the next five minutes to set up a thrilling finish.

Jasmine Demers turned in a game-high 15 points for BVU on 7-of-12 shooting.  She also grabbed eight rebounds, dished out two assists and had one steal.  Sidney Beckman was 3-of-3 shooting from downtown in the first quarter and finished the game with nine points.

Larsen totaled six points and nine rebounds while blocking three shots.

BVU shot just 31 percent from the floor in the game and was 10-of-18 at the free-throw line.  Defensively, they held NWU to 28 percent from the field, as the Prairie Wolves were just 5-of-12 at the charity stripe.

Buena Vista improves to 4-3 on the year (2-0 IIAC) and will look to make it three straight when it travels to Loras College on Wednesday night for a 6:00pm tip-off.  The Duhawks fell to Dubuque on Saturday, 52-35.