CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. --- Freshman Dena Jarrells waited patiently in the corner for the pass from Lakelyn Bouldin. With her feet set, she drained a 3-pointer to give the Chattanooga women's basketball team its largest lead of the game to that point, 56-52, with 37 seconds to play.
 
 "So, our freshman is no longer a freshman," Chattanooga head coach Katie Burrows said. "She has ice in her veins. What a great job of being patient."
 
With the ball up top, Lakelyn Bouldin called for Abbey Cornelius to set the screen. Jarrells drifted into the corner and Bouldin started her way, drawing the defender. A quick pass to the freshman and a quicker release ripped the nets for the four-point lead.
 
"As soon as it left her hands, I knew it was going in," Senior Nakeia Burks said. "She's confident and her feet were set in the corner. When she's got her feet set, she can knock them down, so I knew she was going to make that."
 
The Mocs (4-14) went on to add four more points, capping off a 13-0 run to close out the game, and grabbed their third Southern Conference win to improve to 3-1 in league play, beating Furman 60-52 at the McKenzie Arena Saturday afternoon.
 
Burks, who scored all four of the final free throws, had a team- and career-high 17 points in the win. Lakelyn Bouldin added 14 points and was 8-of-9 from the line in the game.
 
After trailing by one to start the fourth quarter, Furman put up six straight points to retake the lead from Chattanooga, 50-45 with 7:34 to play.
 
Bouldin drew a foul moments later and dropped in a pair of free throws cutting it to three points. Furman's Le'Jzae Davidson answered with a jumper to put the Paladins back up by five, 52-47, with 5:44 to play. They didn't score another point and was 0-for-10 from the field the remainder of the game.
 
It took two free throws from Bouldin and a jumper from Burks for the Mocs to retake the lead, 53-52, with 1:20 remaining.
 
On the Furman end of the court, Bria Dial drew the offensive foul by Taylor Petty, earning a turnover at the 1:05 mark. The Mocs' bench exploded on Jarrells' deep shot and the crowd jumped to its feet as Chattanooga led by more than two points for the first time in the game, 56-52.
 
Petty missed her shot on the other end of the court and Burks grabbed the rebound and drew the foul. Her two free throws with 20 seconds gave the Mocs a 58-52 lead and almost assuredly sealed the win.
 
Furman missed a pair of 3-pointers on their possession and Bria Dial pulled down her seventh rebound of the game. She got the ball to Burks who drew the foul and iced the game with two more charity shots with 4.6 seconds to play.
 
Jarrells was 2-for-2 from the 3-point line and made both free throw attempts for eight points. Eboni Williams matched Dial for rebounds with seven of her own and added in a career-high seven assists, five steals and two blocked shots. She had seven points.
 
Chattanooga shot 19-of-48 (39.6%) from the field, was 5-of-17 from long range and made 17-of-19 free throws. In the paint, the Mocs outscored Furman 26-16 and had 18 points off 19 turnovers.
 
Petty led all scorers with 21 points making 9-of-10 from the free throw line. Davidson added 13 with three of the Paladins' five 3-pointers.
 
Furman scored 20 points off 19 Chattanooga turnovers and had eight second chance points on 13 offensive rebounds. The Paladins edged the Mocs on the boards 35-33. They had five fewer shots than Chattanooga, making 14-of-49 and were held to 16 second half points. The Paladins are 12-6 overall and 3-1 against the SoCon.
 
Chattanooga will take on Samford Thursday night in Birmingham for the first of three straight road games. The game will tip at 8:00 p.m. Eastern time. Follow all the action online at GoMocs.com.