GAMBIER, Ohio – Freshman Paige Matijasich came off the bench and scored a season-high 16 points on Saturday as the Kenyon College women's basketball team won its seventh straight game in a 71-67 win against Ohio Wesleyan University.
 
The first-year from Pickerington scored eight points in each half and shot 6-of-12 from the field as Kenyon improved its record to 16-5 and 10-2 in conference play. Jessica Gerber had a solid game as well totaling 13 points including a 7-of-9 clip at the charity stripe. Rounding out Kenyon's best marks included Bailey Dominguez's 10 points and Griffin Tullis' 13 points, four rebounds and two steals. Nine different players scored at least one shot for Kenyon in the contest.
 
OWU opened the game in solid fashion as they seized a 7-0 lead after Elea Karras' three-pointer at 5:38. A possession later, Kenyon finally got on the scoreboard as Matijasich sunk a three-ball from Gerber. With about two minutes left, Lane Davis found a layup after an offensive rebound and brought the score to 12-9. By the end of the stanza though, Ohio Wesleyan had a 15-11 lead.

 
Nearly four minutes into the second, Tullis' and-one conversion tied the game at 17 before the visitors went back up 21-17 on a Taylor Dickson three-ball. The two squads went back and forth until Kenyon pulled ahead just barely in the closing moments. With 25 seconds left, Dominguez found Ifeoma Archimalo underneath and the junior's layup dropped putting Kenyon up 29-27 at half.
 
In the third, the Ladies began to pull away. Back-to-back fast-break layups from Dominguez and Charlotte Bussema put the home team up 45-39 at 2:42. A couple possessions later, Bussema had a tip-in putting Kenyon up its biggest margin, 48-39 and they took a seven-point lead (51-44) by the end of the quarter on a Matijasich trey.
 
Ohio Wesleyan got to within four (55-51) after a Megan Keuther jumper at 7:35, but Kenyon answered with shots from Davis and a killer three-ball from Tullis in the left corner to go back up nine, 60-51. The visitors never got any closer until the final tally.
 
The Ladies shot 45.3 percent from the field (24-of-53) and hit eight 3-pointers while their bench crushed OWU's outscoring them 38-3.
 
Next up for Kenyon is a trip to Oberlin College on February 8 at 6 p.m.