ST. CHARLES - Top seed Drury rallied from a second-half deficit to down fourth-seed Wisconsin-Parkside 70-66 Saturday evening to move into the Great Lakes Valley Conference Championship title game here at Family Arena.

The nationally eighth-ranked Lady Panthers (25-3), with their 13th consecutive victory, will face No. 3 seed Southern Indiana (25-5) - a 71-66 upset winner over No. 2 seed (and second-ranked nationally) at 3:30 p.m. Sunday in the championship game, as Drury seeks its third league title in the program's history (DU won in 2008 - when current head coach Molly (Carter) Miller was a senior - and in 2010). 

The Lady Panthers defeated USI 64-54 in Springfield on January 8 this season in their only regular season meeting.

Drury trailed the majority of Saturday's game - 35 of the 40 minutes - with the Rangers, but came up big when it mattered.

Sanayika Shields had 22 points and Annie Armstrong added 20 points as the Lady Panthers grabbed the lead, then salted it away thanks to a 21-for-24 effort at the line from the nation's top free-throw shooting.

Armstrong, the national leader individually at 97 percent, went 6-for-6 at the stripe in the final minute to seal it.

"I guess '(be) ahead when it counts,' right? That was a hard-fought battle," Miller said. "Everyone you play from here on out is going to be tough. I'm just so proud of our girls ... we showed a lot of resiliency to claw our way back in. I think our girls did a great job of getting stops and hanging in there when it got tough."

The Lady Panthers - who had defeated Parkside 69-67 in Kenosha, Wis., on Feb. 14 - charged back at the end of the first half to grab a 34-33 lead at the halftime break.

But the Rangers hit back-to-back 3-pointers to start the second half and go up five (39-34), and would not give up the lead until Shields scored on a drive with 2:12 remaining to go up 59-58. Drury had  trailed by six (56-50) with 4:41 remaining until a huge three-point play from Addy Roller, a charge drawn by Shelby White and later, the Shields bucket gave the Lady Panthers a big momentum boost.

It all added up to a 13-2 run for the Lady Panthers over a four-minute stretch, and once Drury got the lead ... Armstrong, Roller and Shields went to the line and finished off another Lady Panthers victory, their 22nd in their last 23 games.

The Lady Panthers made 9 of 10 free throws in the game's final 46 seconds.

"I thought we showed a lot of composure late when we stepped to the line," Miller said.

Drury forced 23 turnovers by the Rangers while committing just 13, helping to offset a cold shooting night (42 percent, 22 of 53) and Parkside's hot shooting (27 of 53, 51 percent). 

The Rangers also finished with a 34-25 rebounding advantage. Gaby Bronson had 19 points and seven assists to lead Parkside (22-7).

The Lady Panthers created a Drury doubleheader on Sunday, as the No. 2 seed Panthers will play top seed Bellarmine for the men's title at 1 p.m., also at Family Arena.

"We've worked hard to get to this point," Miller said. "I can't tell you how exciting it is to get to play back-to-back GLVC championship games with our guys. They played a great game today to get there ... and a lot of credit for both of us goes to our fans who made the trip up. We can hear them and feel them, and there's just so much to gain when we've got that feeling like we're playing in front of our home crowd."