YOUNG HARRIS, Ga. – The UNC Pembroke women's basketball team shot better than 65 percent in the second half and used a 12-2 run in the final minutes of the second stanza to key a 65-60 win over Young Harris on Saturday afternoon inside the YHC Basketball Arena.

The triumph snapped a four-game losing streak for the Braves (7-14, 5-9 PBC) who moved to 2-1 all-time in the series with the Mountain Lions. It was the fourth loss in the last five outings for Young Harris (9-12, 6-8).

Jazmine Kemp scored a game-high 18 points on 8-for-13 shooting to lead the Braves, while Avae' Hardy chipped in 12 points on a 4-of-7 success rate from the field. Jasmine Huntley and Phoenicia Lawson both came off the bench to add 11 for the visitors.

Shereese Williams tallied 16 points and came within a rebound of registering a double-double for the Mountain Lions, while Peyton Robertson and Rachel Harrell both added nine points apiece.

The Mountain Lions led by as much as 10 points in the early going of the second half, but Kemp's short jumper with at the 17:43 mark ignited a 13-2 run for the visitors that gave UNCP a 45-44 lead after Lawson's layup just more than two minutes later. Down 53-52 following a Briana Bell jump shot with 8:54 to go, UNCP put together a game-changing 13-2 run over the next eight minutes to all but seal the final outcome.

The Braves led by as much as six points, 17-11, after a Huntley layup at the 11:43 mark in the opening period, but Young Harris scored the game's next seven points to slip ahead nearly four minutes later. A tie game with 1:25 left before the intermission, the hosts got a key 3-pointer from Virginia Scott with just more than a minute left, and then lugged a 34-29 advantage into the intermission following a jump shot by Williams with 33 seconds left.

The Braves will open up a two-game home stand on Wednesday when they suit up to take on PBC East-leading Lander (19-4, 12-2) in the front half of a 5:30 p.m. doubleheader inside the English E. Jones Center.