The victory kept the Tem-Cats tied with Harker Heights for second place in District 13-5A at 6-3 and ended a grueling four-game stretch against the top teams. Temple finished the stretch 2-2 despite shooting 36 percent from the floor.
Tuesday started the same way, with the Tem-Cats (23-8) shooting 7-for-23 from the field. Junior Murdoch made six of those 10 shots en route to 13 first-half points as Temple took a five-point lead into intermission.
Consolidated (15-9, 4-4) used a 9-1 run spanning the third and fourth quarters to open a 37-32 lead, but Temple fought back and tied the game on a pair of free throws by junior Trenette Smith with 3 minutes, 45 seconds left.
Thirty seconds later, Murdoch - who had two points in the second half until that point - connected on both ends of a 1-and-1 free-throw situation to give the Tem-Cats the lead for good.
