GREENCASTLE, Ind. – Sydney Kopp scored a season-high 25 points to lead the No. 17/19-ranked DePauw University Tigers (15-3, 9-0 NCAC) to a 71-57 victory against Kenyon College (12-6, 6-4 NCAC) on Saturday in a North Coast Athletic Conference women's basketball game.
 
Kenyon's usually stout defense was off today as it allowed a season-high 71 points and 42.9 percent clip from three-point range. The points allowed marked the first time in 61 NCAC regular-season games that a conference opponent scored 70-plus. The last time that happened was February 7, 2015 at Ohio Wesleyan University.
 
Sharon Hull led the team as she tied a season-best with 17 points on 6-of-14 shooting including a 5-of-7 clip from three-point land. Junior Paige Matijasich added 15 points and 10 rebounds for her fifth double-double of the season while Lane Davis contributed seven points and seven boards.
 
The Tigers' first-quarter performance set the tone on how Saturday's game would go.
 
Within 4:17 of the opening stanza, DePauw had scored the first 10 points while Kenyon coughed the ball up four times and missed all four of its shots. It only got tougher from there for the visitors. By the end of the quarter, the Tigers had attained a 19-4 lead as they hit half of their 16 shots. For the Ladies, they made just two of their 15 attempts.
 
In the second, DePauw went up as many as 21 after an Imani Graham jumper brought the tally to 33-12 with 2:56 remaining. Kenyon did fight to cut the deficit to 35-21 by halftime as Hull keyed a 9-2 run with a couple of treys.
 
The strong finish in the second translated over into the third. Hull sank a jumper while Matijasich added five points to bring the tally to 39-28 at the 7:32 mark. After that though, Kenyon would not get any closer. Kopp hit consecutive three-pointers on DePauw's next couple of possessions to push the home squad up 17 points, 45-28.
 
By game's end, the Tigers had hit 42 percent from both the field and from behind the arc.
 
Kenyon will look to bounce back on January 23 when it hosts Oberlin College at 6 p.m. at Tomsich Arena.