Box Score
GAMBIER, Ohio – The Kenyon College women's basketball team dominated the glass Wednesday night and coupled that with excellent free throw shooting to sink the Oberlin College Yeowomen, 71-62, in a North Coast Athletic Conference match-up at Tomsich Arena.
Kenyon's senior guard
Maggie Boelter and junior forward
Lauren Kriete each grabbed a team-high nine rebounds, pacing the Ladies to a 50-38 advantage on the boards. That total, the team's second-best this season, included 37 defensive rebounds.
Maureen Hirt added seven rebounds and both
Avery Anderson and
Meredith Williams latched on to five, giving the Ladies' starting five 70 percent of the team's rebounds.
Those same five players combined to go 13-of-14 at the free throw line, where Hirt led the way with a perfect 5-of-5 showing. Hirt poured in another 15 points from the field and finished with a team-high 20. Boelter, who came up one rebound shy of a double-double, chucked in 18 points and dished out five assists. Anderson, getting just her third start of the season, added another ten points for Kenyon's starting crew.
It wasn't all about the starters, though. Sophomore post
Shelby Gray came off the bench to score a career high 10 points on 5-of-7 shooting. She also had a block and contributed three rebounds.
The Ladies nearly lead wire-to-wire. They got out front early, fell behind 7-5, and then reclaimed the lead for good with Hirt's only three-pointer of the game, which found its mark a little more than five minutes into the first half. Following that, Oberlin never got closer than three points the rest of the way.
Kenyon did just about everything right on the defensive side of the ball, too. The Ladies pressured the Yeowomen into shooting just 29.0 percent for the game (20-of-69). Oberlin's leading scorer for the season, Christina Marquette, tallied 17 points Wednesday, but she was just 5-of-20 from the floor. The one player Kenyon did not have an answer for was Lindsey Bernhardt, who went 6-of-10 for three-point range and rang up a game-high 22 points. Remove her stat line from the Oberlin box and the rest of the Yeowomen shot just 24.0 percent (13-of-54).
The win for the Ladies evened out the season series with the Yeowomen, who took a 54-50 victory from the Ladies earlier this month in Oberlin. The win was also Kenyon's second in the last three games and pushed the Ladies' records to 10-7 overall and 5-4 in the conference.
The loss for Oberlin was its sixth straight. The Yeowomen are now 8-11 overall and 3-7 in the NCAC.
