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Kenyon College Athletics

Gest_Alyssa_1WBK23
Isoo OBrien
73
Winner Anderson (IN) AU 6-5,2-2 HCAC
55
Kenyon Kenyon 2-8,0-1 NCAC
Winner
Anderson (IN) AU
6-5,2-2 HCAC
73
Final
55
Kenyon Kenyon
2-8,0-1 NCAC
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 F
Anderson (IN) AU 22 22 20 9 73
Kenyon Kenyon 15 1 18 21 55

Game Recap: Women's Basketball |

Owls fall in homestand finale

GAMBIER, Ohio – Despite a second-half resurgence from the Kenyon College women's basketball team on Saturday afternoon, the smothering defense and forced turnovers from the visiting Anderson University Ravens (IN.) got the best of the Owls, falling 55-73 in the battle of the birds. 

Alyssa Gest led all scorers and posted a season-high 19 points while draining four threes shooting at 50 percent from beyond the arc and hitting 5-of-6 from the line. Her 12 second-half points helped the Owls outscore the Ravens 39-29 in the final 20 minutes. 

After a fast start from Claudia Cooke and a basket on the other end to tie things up early, Anderson (6-5) implemented its signature full-court press, which the squad snapped into after every made basket. Early on, Kenyon (2-8) struggled to move the ball against the suffocating defense but relied on scores from Gest and Cooke, who combined for 12 of the team's 15 first-quarter points, as the Owls trailed 22-15 after one.

In the second, Anderson's staunch press and calculated double-teams in the backcourt once the Owls broke the press contributed to 17 first-half turnovers, and the Ravens built a sizable lead. Going into halftime, Kenyon trailed 44-16. 

The third quarter began with a 6-2 run from the Owls with baskets from Cooke and Mikayla Rudolph, and Kenyon began to consistently beat the Anderson defense and spread the ball around, as Gest, Melana Pomerants, Anissa Hardy, and Grace Murphy got involved in the scoring. After three, the Owls trailed 64-34, but the team had its best quarter of the contest in the game's final frame. 

Kenyon had its best offensive and defensive quarters in the fourth, scoring 21 and holding Anderson to nine. Megan Lieb got the scoring started for the Owls in the quarter, while Gest and Cooke again added points in tandem. In the quarter, Kenyon shot 40 percent from the field on 20 attempts and hit four threes. Defensively the the Owls recorded two blocks, one steal, and hauled in 14 rebounds in the lockdown effort to close the game. In the end, it was too little too late as Kenyon fell 55-73. 

For the contest, Gest had a game-high 19 points and set season-highs in points, rebounds, field goals made, free throws made, and threes made. Cooke came in next with 13 points, six boards, and added one block and a steal on the other end. Rudolph had eight, Bela Krslovic scored five, Murphy had four and tied Pomerants with three assists, and Hardy scored three and led the team with 11 rebounds. 

The loss drops the Owls to 2-8 on the season. After three straight home games, the squad takes nearly two weeks off for the holiday break, but is back in action on December 29th at 5:00 pm CST to take on Bowdoin College in the Music City Classic hosted by Volunteer College in Gallatin, Tennessee.
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