WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Tess Heal scored a season-high 24, Nunu Agara added 23 and Stanford held on to beat Wake Forest in Winston-Salem on Thursday night, 74-71.
The Cardinal (10-7, 2-4) led by as many as 19, going up 58-39 when Elena Bosgana made a driving layup with just over a minute to go in the third. But Wake Forest (7-10, 0-6) outscored Stanford 29-16 in a fourth quarter in which the Cardinal had six turnovers.
Agara had 10 of her team’s 16 points in the fourth. She scored Stanford’s last bucket on a beautiful baseline inbounds play with the shot clock winding down, jumping, catching and sinking it off glass from the middle of the key all in one motion with 37 seconds left.
Stanford was 7-of-8 at the line in the final frame and 12-of-15 on the night.
While Agara carried the Cardinal late, Heal lifted Stanford early. The junior transfer put up 15 in the first half and nine in the third quarter. She made her first six 3-pointers, a career best, and finished 9-of-16 from the floor and 6-of-8 from deep.
In the first quarter, with the Demon Deacons up 4-3, Heal went on a personal 11-0 run to help the Cardinal take control. She hit back-to-back 3-pointers, a layup and another 3-pointer over a four-minute span to put Stanford up 10.
The win was the Cardinal’s first away from home this season.
Stanford is back in action on Sunday when it plays at No. 16 Duke at 10 a.m. PT on ESPN2.