WOOSTER, Ohio – Four Ladies rang up double-digit scoring totals Wednesday evening as the Kenyon College women's basketball team cruised to a 77-60 North Coast Athletic Conference win at The College of Wooster.
During the win, the Ladies recorded team, season-highs for points scored (77), field goals (30) and three-point field goals (14). Junior
Sharon Hull led the way with 21 points, while senior
Griffin Tullis tossed in 19. Both those outputs were single-game career bests. Junior
Jessica Gerber added 14 points and sophomore
Paige Matijasich chipped in with 10.
The Ladies' total of 14 three-pointers was the third-best, single-game team mark in program history and the best mark since 15 threes fell in a game at Mount Vernon Nazarene University on December 31, 2013. Hull was 5-for-9 from long range against the Scots. Gerber was 4-for-9, while Tullis and Matijasich combined to sink the other five treys for the Ladies.
Kenyon got off to a hot start, scoring the game's first eight points and later racing out to leads of 18-4 and 28-12. The Ladies had a 30-17 lead after one quarter and a 50-32 advantage at the break. Deep into the third quarter, they had a lead as large as 29 points.
Overall, the Kenyon women shot 47.6 percent (30-for-63), 38.9 percent (14-for-36) from three-point territory and a perfect 100 percent (3-for-3) at the free throw line. They piled up 20 assists, with Gerber responsible for seven of them.
Matijasich snared 10 rebounds to give Kenyon a slight edge on the boards, as well as to record her second double-double of the season.
Wooster, led by Sarah Rapacz's 15 points, outscored Kenyon, 21-9, in the fourth quarter to bring its final deficit down to 17.
The win bumped Kenyon's overall record to 19-5 and left the Ladies on the doorstep of their seventh 20-win season in program history. In terms of the conference race, the Ladies, who already secured one of the top-four postseason tournament bids, are now 12-3 and in third place.
Kenyon has one more game left in the regular season and that's a contest at Hiram College on Saturday. Oberlin College, which carries a 13-2 NCAC record and sits in second place, plays at first-place DePauw University, also on Saturday.
NCAC tournament quarterfinal games will be held Tuesday at the sites of the top-four seeded teams.