ST. CHARLES - Top seed Drury broke open a tight game with a second-half surge and posted an 80-65 victory over No. 8 seed Indianapolis in a Great Lakes Valley Conference Championship quarterfinal round game Friday afternoon at the Family Arena.

Sanayika Shields had 18 points, 11 rebounds and seven assists, Annie Armstrong added 14 points and Addy Roller had 10 points as the Lady Panthers improved to 24-3  with their 12th consecutive victory.

The win moved Drury into Saturday's 6 p.m. semifinal against No. 4 seed Wisconsin-Parkside (22-6), which defeated fifth-seed Quincy 65-61 in Friday's opening quarterfinal. The Lady Panthers defeated Parkside 69-67 in Kenosha, Wis., on February 14 in a thriller, when Drury let a 15-point lead slip away in the final five minutes, only to win it on Shields' 18-footer just before the final horn.

Indianapolis finished its season 12-16.

The contest was reminiscent of Drury's 78-56 victory over the Greyhounds in Indianapolis on January 2, when Drury led by one at the half, but broke it open with a second-half run.

This time, Drury trailed 36-34 at the intermission, and needed a good 10 minutes of the second half to create some scoreboard space. It was a 50-48 DU lead with 10:40 remaining when the Lady Panthers put together a 10-0 run over the next two minutes to grab some breathing room at 60-48, with key conventional three-point plays from freshman Heather Harman and sophomore Alice Heinzler sparking the run.

The Greyhounds got the deficit to nine on a couple of occasions inside the final five minutes, but the nation's best free-throw shooting team showed why yet again, going 9 for 9 at the line over the final three-plus minutes to ward off any UIndy threat.

"That was fun," first-year DU coach Molly Miller said of a Lady Panthers' victory that ended a streak of four consecutive GLVC Tourney losses for Drury. "UIndy's a good team with good senior leadership ... it's nice to get that first one out of the way. We've been practicing so long since our last game, so it was nice to play a game again."

The Lady Panthers finished 19 of 22 at the free-throw line (86 percent) and 50 percent from the field (27 of 54). 

Shelby White had six steals in her 27 minutes of playing time as the Lady Panthers forced 16 turnovers by the Greyhounds while committing just 13.

"I thought Shelby just played amazing defense today," Miller said. "She got after it, and showed why she was an All-Defensive Team selection."

Shields' seven assists were a career high on a day when she played just 11 minutes in the first half after picking up two fouls. She finished with her ninth double-double of the season, and her 11 rebounds pushed her season total to 232, the sixth-most in a single season in the program's history.

"That's why we need to have her on the floor," Miller said. "It hurts us when she's in foul trouble and has to go to the bench."

Nicole Anderson finished with a game-high 22 points for the Greyhounds, but had only eight after halftime. Drury outrebounded a taller UIndy squad 33-26, with Harman and Hannah Dressler grabbing four boards each to support Shields' effort.

Next for the Lady Panthers is an even taller Parkside squad.

"They're a tough team ... we saw it today, and we heard them, because their locker room was right next to ours," Miller said. "They're fired up. It's a tough matchup for us because of their size. But we'll be ready to get after it."