COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- Texas Lutheran survived a cold shooting afternoon in Colorado Springs, Colo., but the Bulldogs made clutch free throws in the final minute to edge Colorado College 70-64 on Sunday and move into a first-place tie in the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference.

The Bulldogs won their eighth-straight game and now sit atop the SCAC Standings with Trinity University. Both teams hold SCAC records of 9-2 with three conference games remaining. The Bulldogs and Tigers face each other next, in an 8 p.m. Friday match-up in TLU's Memorial Gymnasium.

TLU will take an overall record of 17-5 into the Trinity game. The Bulldogs' 17 wins are the most by a women's basketball team in TLU's NCAA DIII era.

In Colorado College's Reid Arena, the Bulldogs made just four of 27 three-point attempts and went 20-for-62 (32.3 percent) from the field overall.

TLU trailed by as many as nine in the first half and by three at the half. The Bulldogs rallied with a 15-7 run to start the second half. Reserve guard Katie Moore (Floresville/Floresville) came off the bench and hit a three-pointer with 13:46 to play to give TLU a five-point lead. Moore scored a career-high nine points and dished out two assists.

The TLU lead grew to seven with 3:41 remaining, but Colorado College didn't quite. The Tigers tied the game at 60 on a lay-up by Katie Waters with 1:33 on the clock.

Karisa Cantu (San Antonio/MacArthur) came right down the floor and scored with a lay-up  to put TLU in front again.

The Tigers twice came within two points in the final 39 seconds, but TLU made eight of 10 free throws in those final 39 seconds and closed the game on a 10-4 run.

Cantu and Kristen Lye (San Antonio/Clark) each scored 12 for the Bulldogs. Cantu collected four assists, three steals and three rebounds. Lye grabbed seven rebounds and made 4-of-6 at the free throw line.

Taylor Dydalewicz (Dripping Springs/Lake Travis) added 11 points and a team-high eight rebounds, and Moore and Autumn Shead (Pflugerville/Connally) each chipped in nine. Moore and Shead were a combined nine-for-nine at the free throw line.

As a team, the Bulldogs made 26 of 33 free throw attempts.

The top four teams in the SCAC - TLU, Trinity, Schreiner and Southwestern - now are separated by one game in the current standings. TLU closes the regular season with home games against Trinity and Southwestern (in Seguin on Saturday) and a road game against Schreiner (in Kerrville on Feb. 22).

The team at the top of the SCAC standings at the end of the regular season earns the conference's top seed for the SCAC Championship Tournament, to be hosted by Trinity Feb. 28-March 2.