Annie Armstrong scored 18 points to lead four Lady Panthers in double-figures and No. 21 Drury pulled away late for a 74-60 Great Lakes Valley Conference victory Thursday night at the O'Reilly Family Event Center.

Sanayika Shields and Addy Roller added 11 points each and Shelby White had 10 points for the Lady Panthers, who improved to 15-3 overall and 9-1 in the GLVC.

Truman State fell to 11-7 and 5-5.

Shields grabbed nine rebounds and Hannah Dressler added seven boards off the bench for the Lady Panthers, who claimed a 36-31 rebounding advantage.

The Lady Panthers had a strong defensive effort, holding the Bulldogs to just 36 percent shooting (18 of 50), including a 4-of-19 effort from 3-point range.

"That's probably what I'm most proud of tonight is our defensive effort," first-year DU coach Molly Miller said. "We try to hold our opponents under 40 percent, and they had only four assists on the night, so our defense was doing a good job of swarming. We're starting to get it.

"You know when you play Truman it's always going to be one of those games where at the end, you're going to go 'wow ... I'm exhausted,' because they constantly move."

Drury led 33-24 at the half, and was clinging to a 62-56 advantage with three minutes to go before finishing the game on a 12-6 run to break it open. The Lady Panthers - the nation's leading free-throw shooting team - made all 10 of their free-throw attempts in the final two minutes to seal the victory, and finished the night 21 of 23 from the stripe (91 percent).

Allie Norton had 15 points to lead Truman, which got 11 points each from Courtney Strait and Michalina Tomczak, who grabbed a team-high eight rebounds.

Drury is back home on Saturday to host Quincy in an approximate 1 p.m. tipoff after a girls prep game tips off at 11 a.m. It's '"Great Southern Throwback Day" for the Lady Panthers and Panthers, with Drury holding a "Fan Appreciation Concert" on Friday night featuring Boogie Wonderland from Kansas City playing disco and soul hits from the 1970s and '80s. Admission is free for DU season ticket-holders, faculty/staff and students, and just $5 for the general public, which also buys them a ticket to Saturday's double-header with Quincy.