Baldwin ? Eight ties. Nine lead changes. Just the kind of tense and exciting basketball game that would be expected from two quality teams.

Then Anna Gillispie drilled a couple of three-pointers late in the third quarter, and Baldwin went on to trim Eudora, 53-41, in a battle of Frontier League unbeatens Friday night.

“She hit those two shots,” Eudora coach Cara Kimberlin said, “and momentum changed a little bit.”

Eudora led 34-33 with 1:29 remaining in the third quarter. Thirty seconds later, Gillispie drilled a three — Baldwin’s first of the night — and 40 seconds after that the 5-foot-9 senior swished another trey.

Thanks to Gillispie, Baldwin led 39-34 as the quarter ended, and Eudora never threatened again.

“Turnovers in the second half killed us,” Kimberlin said.

Baldwin had a lot to do with the 15 second-half miscues that played the largest role in Eudora’s first league defeat.

“We knew we could pull it out,” Gillispie said. “We just buckled down on defense.”

As expected, the schools’ tall and talented post players led the scoring. Lauren Kracl, a 6-foot senior, led Eudora with 18 points. Emily Brown, a 6-1 senior, paced Baldwin with 17. But neither was dominant — Kracl because she was double- and triple-teamed, Brown because of an off-shooting night

Baldwin High's Emily Brown (34) drives past Eudora's Lauren Kracl in the second half. The Bulldogs knocked off the Cardinals, 53-41, Friday night in Baldwin. Brown led BHS with 17 points; Kracl paced EHS with 18 points.

In fact, the Bulldogs (13-2) made just 14 of 49 shots for a chilly 28.5 percent.

“We missed a lot of easy shots,” Baldwin coach Eric Toot said. “We’re usually a great shooting team, and tonight we weren’t.”

Toot wouldn’t blame the poor shooting on the fact the Bulldogs had played a makeup game the night before against league foe Prairie View. Brown had scored 28 in that 83-48 romp.

“No excuses,” Toot said. “We played well (Thursday) night, but Eudora is a good team and they had a lot to do with it (the loss).”

Baldwin’s poor shooting strictly was from the field. At the free throw line, the Bulldogs nailed 22 of 30 charities, including 11 of 14 in the fourth quarter when the Cardinals had to foul.

“We were in the game for three quarters,” Kimberlin said. “Then their defense stepped up and we didn’t handle it well. We played well for three quarters, then we kind of shut down.”

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Baldwin finished with only three three-point goals — the two by Gillispie and one by Kari Garrison early in the fourth quarter.

“We usually shoot a lot of threes,” Toot said, “but they were playing behind Emily, and when they do that we have to get the ball inside.”

Baldwin also won the only other meeting between the two schools this season, spilling Eudora, 63-52, in the championship game of the Wellsville Top Gun Invitational two weeks ago.

Baldwin will travel Tuesday to Spring Hill.

“Our first goal is to win the league and we have two games left,” Toot said. “After that, it’s to get the No. 1 seed at sub-state.”

Eudora (11-5) will travel Tuesday to Paola.

Although located only a few miles apart in Douglas County, Baldwin and Eudora have been assigned to different Class 4A sub-states — Baldwin to Louisburg and Eudora to Lansing.

Eudora High's Kayla Moyer (13) uses a screen from Lauren Kracl (21) to shed Baldwin's Trisha Cox in the second half of the Bulldogs' 43-41 victory. The battle of previous Frontier League unbeaten teams was Friday in Baldwin.