Box Score GAMBIER, Ohio – By dropping in three-pointers at a near-record clip, the Kenyon College women's basketball team managed to outdistance backyard rival Mount Vernon Nazarene University, 87-73, Monday night. The Ladies hit 15 shots from behind the arc – the second-highest single-game total in program history – as part of their best offensive showing of the young season.  

Ten of Kenyon's three-pointers came before halftime and allowed the Ladies to open up a 45-32 advantage at the break. The lead ballooned to 19 (62-43) over the first seven minutes of the second period, but MVNU ripped off a 21-6 run to cut the gap to four by the five-minute mark. With the Cougars (1-6) hot on Kenyon's heels, junior Maggie Boelter kick-started an 11-0 run with the Ladies'  15th-and-final three to put the game in hand.

Kenyon (4-1), which never trailed in the contest, used a balanced approach from long distance to account for the big night. Junior Maureen Hirt canned four three-pointers, sophomore Sarah Hobbs scored all nine of her points from beyond the arc, and Boelter, seniors Katie Adlam and Kayla Ernst, and sophomore Lauren Kriete each tripled twice.

Only the 2007-08 Ladies squad connected on more three-pointers in a game after dropping 16 in a game at Oberlin College.

Hirt led all scorers with 23 points and posted a double-double after snaring 10 rebounds. Ernst was next on Kenyon's ledger with 19 points. Adlam followed with a season-high 17 points, to which she added six assists.

The Ladies, currently in a stretch of five games in 12 days, return to the hardwood at Heidelberg University Thursday night for a 7:30 p.m. tip-off.