“For her, in her first GPAC game, to have 27,” said HC coach Jina Douglas, “I think I’ll take that.”

And so will Clavel, despite the two missed free throw attempts late.

The Roy, New Mexico, native poured in points early and handled the moment late to help Hastings to its first conference win of the young season.

Clavel was the trusted horse down the stretch, making four of six free throw attempts to seal the Broncos’ victory.

“I wish I would’ve made more than I did,” said Clavel. “But I was just trying to keep myself composed. I pray at the free throw line, so I was praying and just trying to knock them down.”

Clavel’s final make at the charity stripe bulged Hastings’ lead to four points with slightly more than 3 seconds left.

That lead proved to be insurmountable, although, Hastings’ 18-point lead heading into the fourth quarter should have been proof enough.

But the Broncos watched their cushion dissipate with Doane’s 30-point outburst across the final 10 minutes.

“We just got tight,” said Douglas. “And you could feel it, obviously. Their pressure started to bother us in the second half a little bit more.”

Doane’s pressure produced 14 second-half turnovers out of the Broncos, but the visitors never trailed in the contest.

The Tigers (6-1) trimmed the lead to four with 10 seconds remaining on a two by Boston Boucher and then again with five seconds when Sydney Roth splashed a 3-pointer.

But Clavel finished the game off by making both free throws, as opposed to splitting them like she did in her two prior trips.

Doane’s offense, which struggled mightily against Hastings’ zone in the first half, experienced success late.

But in the first half, the Broncos’ clogged the interior.

Doane, a team that shoots plenty of 3-pointers anyway, yielded most of its 28 first-half points that way.

Eight of the Tigers’ 10 first-half field goals were beyond the arc.

“They can shoot it,” Douglas said. “They’ll just space you out and shoot it. They’re undersized, they’ll go five out and make you guard the perimeter.

“We sucked in too much occasionally, but they’re a tough matchup. They’re smaller, they’re quicker, so it was hard for our fives to go out there at times. But we were just good enough defensively in the first half and towards late in the game.”

Doane never quit, despite trailing heavily on the scoreboard.

“We let them dissect our defense a little bit more,” Clavel said. “We weren’t talking as much, we started battling internally, but we won.”

Boucher scored five of her 15 in the fourth while the Tigers thrived on second chances all night.

Doane held a 19-10 advantage in offensive rebounding. The margin was 43-35 in favor of the Tigers overall.