MEADVILLE, Pa. – Kenyon College's 72-50 win over the Allegheny College Gators on Saturday ended the women's basketball regular season and advanced the Ladies into the upcoming North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) postseason tournament.

As the No. 3-seeded team in the tournament, the Ladies will host the No. 6-seeded Ohio Wesleyan University Battling Bishops on Tuesday evening. A start time for that quarterfinal contest has yet to be determined. During the regular season, the Ladies swept Ohio Wesleyan, including an 80-58 triumph just three days ago.

Saturday's win at Allegheny completed another season sweep for the Ladies, who defeated the Gators 70-51 earlier in the year.

This time around, junior Paige Matijasich led the way for Kenyon. She scored a game-high 16 points, grabbed a team-high nine rebounds and just missed recording her fourth double-double of the season. Matijasich concluded the regular season with averages of 15.7 points and 7.8 rebounds per game. She'll enter postseason play with 926 career points.

Sophomore Ellie Schaub and senior Jessica Gerber nearly pulled off double-doubles, too. Schaub, a sophomore, scored 12 points and snared eight boards. She also racked up five assists, a total only bested by Gerber, a senior, who scored nine points and handed out eight assists.

In addition to Matijasich and Schaub, freshmen Greta Propp and Grace Connery dialed up double-digit scoring marks for the Ladies. Connery canned a trio of three-pointers to finish with 11 points and Propp went 4-of-7 to score 10.

The Ladies (17-8, 11-5 NCAC) started slowly, allowing Allegheny to jump out to 10-8 lead in the game's first five minutes. Connery's first three-pointer then quickly changed the tone, sparking a 14-4 run that concluded the quarter with the Ladies in front, 22-14.

The Gators, again, started the second quarter well and narrowed the Kenyon lead to two. The Ladies then unleashed Matijasich, who scored six in the quarter and guided Kenyon to a 40-27 halftime lead.  

Allegheny (6-19, 2-14 NCAC) never got closer than 10 points the rest of the way. In fact, Kenyon gave up just four points in the fourth quarter and held the Gators scoreless for the final seven minutes of the game.

The Ladies outrebound the Gators, 44-35, and choked the Allegheny offense into a 16-of-56 shooting performance (28.6 percent).