DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Tania White scored a career-high 20 points as Bethune-Cookman's fourth quarter rally fell short in a 66-61 Southwestern Athletic Conference setback to Grambling State Saturday afternoon in Historic Moore Gymnasium.

Justice Coleman scored 21 points as the Tigers (4-10,1-2) held the Wildcats (2-10,1-2) to four points in the third quarter and led 56-39 with 7:15 remaining.

B-CU, which held Grambling without a field goal in the fourth quarter, got as close as 62-61 on White's traditional three-point play with 31 seconds left, but the Tigers hit four free throws to seal the victory.

Kayla Clark's lay-up with 3:20 remaining capped of a 17-3 run that cut it to 59-56, but the Wildcats couldn't score again until two Taylor Williams free throws with 38 seconds left.

White also had eight rebounds for B-CU, who led 31-30 at halftime on Clark's lay-up at the buzzer. The Wildcats went 7-9 from the field in the opening 10 minutes as B-CU took a 16-12 lead.

Williams finished with 12 and Clark 10 for the Wildcats, who host Southern Monday at 5:30 p.m.

HEAD COACH JANELL CRAYTON

 "What was going right was our energy. When we got down, we could have easily folded but didn't. I was proud of that.

Tania played with a lot of leadership. She was willing to do whatever we asked of her – she played three different positions tonight. That's what you need from a leader.

We are getting better. The best thing about this is we're doing things we can control. It hurts not to get the wins in the first two conference games, but if this is where we're starting, than we're going to end up pretty hot."

NOTES: B-CU outshot the Tigers 39 percent to 34 percent from the field … B-CU has now lost five straight … White now has four double-figure games this season… The Wildcats scored 26 points in the fourth period.