NASSAU, Bahamas -- The Wichita State women's basketball team (6-3) posted a late rally but SMU (7-2) sank four free throws in the final seconds to hold off the Shockers, 67-60, Saturday evening inside Kendall Isaacs Gymnasium in the first game of the 2009 Bahamas Sunsplash Shooutout.

Morgan Boyd led the way for the Shockers with a career-high 26 points on 9-of-16 shooting, including a 4-for-7 effort from three-point range. Haleigh Lankster added 12 points for WSU, as the Shockers shot 40.7-percent from the field on the night.

Christine Elliott's double-double proved to be the difference for SMU, as she led four players in double figures, including Alice Severin who posted 15 points and nine boards.

The teams traded baskets in a frantic early pace before the Shockers used a quick 10-0 run on the strength of a pair of three-pointers from Chynna Turner and Morgan Boyd to take a 23-14 lead with less than 10 to play in the opening half.

SMU then responded with a 9-0 run of its own to tie the game after a Christine Elliott putback evened the score, 23-23, with 7:50 remaining in the first.

WSU's rebounding kept it in the game early, staying even with the taller Mustangs throughout the opening minute overcoming a 5:30 scoring drought to tie the game at 25-25 following Jessica Diamond's jumper from the right wing with 4:23 to play before the break.

It was all Mustangs in the final three minutes of the first, as SMU cruised to a 35-28 halftime lead on the strength of a 10-3 run fueled by a pair of threes from Samantha Mahnesmith and Raquel Christian.

WSU shot 41-percent from the field in the first but the Mustangs connected on 50-percent of their field goals and went 6-for-7 at the free-throw line in the half.

The second half began much the same way as the first, with a frantic scoring effort by both teams as the Shockers used a pair of Lankster treys to pull within 43-38 by the under-16 timeout.

Boyd drained a pair of threes to close the Mustang lead to 49-44 with 10:30 left, and Diamond's jumper with 9:43 left brought the Shockers to within three, 49-46. Elliott snapped a three-minute scoring drought for the Mustangs before Jazimen Gordon got her first points on a layin with 7:54 to play.

Her free throw after being fouled on the play cut the deficit to two, but an offensive board on a missed free throw allowed Brittany Gilliam to hit a three and stretch the advantage to 54-49 with seven minutes to play.

SMU got six-straight from Elliott and held the Shockers scoreless for nearly five minutes as the Mustangs began to pull away, building the lead to as many as 11, 49-38 at the under-12 timeout.

Alice Severin's three-point play with four minutes to play extended SMU's lead to 59-52 and the Shockers cut the deficit to four on a Diamond jumper with 2:38 left, but a turnover gave the ball back to SMU with 1:30 to play.

Boyd's jumper with :47.8 left cut the deficit to 61-57, and Diamond's trey brought the Shockers to within 63-60 with :22 seconds left, but Jillian Samuels sank both free throws on the next possession to seal the win.

The Shockers are next in action at 3 p.m., CT, Sunday afternoon against UMKC in Nassau.