GAMBIER, Ohio – Junior Ellie Schaub dialed up a career-high 25 points Wednesday night and led the Kenyon College women's basketball team to a 74-60 North Coast Athletic Conference win over the visiting Hiram College Terriers.

The victory was Kenyon's third in its past four games and kept the Ladies in fifth place in the conference standings. The Ladies are now 9-13 overall and 6-8 in NCAC play. They have three games left on their regular-season schedule and two of those are conference contests.

Schaub, whose previous career-best was 19 points, made 11-of-16 shots, including one from beyond the three-point line. She was 2-for-2 at the free throw line and tacked on team-highs of eight rebounds and six assists. All in 29 minutes of work.

Senior Paige Matijasich got off to a slow start, but still managed to score 13 points and grab seven rebounds. Sophomore Grace Connery connected on a trio of three-pointers and scored 11 points, while classmate Amanda Carroll chipped in with eight points and seven more rebounds.


The Ladies struggled with turnovers throughout the game, but made up for it on the boards, outrebounding Hiram 47-28.

Hiram kept things close in the first half by capitalizing on those Kenyon turnovers. The Terriers had the game tied, 12-12, after one quarter of play and then trailed by just three, 32-29, at halftime. Throughout the contest, the Terriers flipped Kenyon's 17 turnovers into 18 points.

The Ladies got things together in the third quarter and all but put the game away, outscoring the Terriers 29-17.  

Seven different players scored at least two points for Kenyon during that third-quarter blitz. Schaub scored seven, all on driving layups. Madelyn Anderson had six on a pair of three-pointers and Matijasich had five. The Ladies raced out of the break on an 11-3 run and didn't look back.

Hiram never got closer than seven points the rest of the way and the Ladies went on to lead by as many as 17. Kenyon finished the game shooting 50 percent (30-of-60), which included a red-hot third quarter in which the team fired at 64.7 percent (11-of-17).

The loss dropped Hiram to 7-16 overall and 4-10 in the NCAC. Tashauna Wright led the Terriers with 20 points and six rebounds. Haley Thompson grabbed seven rebounds and she, along with Alainna Conroy, scored 11 points.