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Kenyon College Athletics

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Sejin Kim
71
Winner Wittenberg Witten 14-4,7-1 NCAC
46
Kenyon Kenyon 3-17,1-8 NCAC
Winner
Wittenberg Witten
14-4,7-1 NCAC
71
Final
46
Kenyon Kenyon
3-17,1-8 NCAC
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 F
Wittenberg Witten 19 22 15 15 71
Kenyon Kenyon 14 6 7 19 46

Game Recap: Women's Basketball |

Kenyon’s hot start wanes against Wittenberg

GAMBIER, Ohio – Facing a 'Tigers' team for the second time in as many games, the Kenyon College Owls women's basketball team held tight with the Wittenberg University Tigers through the game's opening minutes on Saturday afternoon, but the Kenyon could not sustain its strong start, falling 71-46.

Sophomore guard Alyssa Gest headlined the Owls offensive attack, dropping 18 second-half points en route to a 20-point afternoon while recording 34 minutes and seven field goals. Despite Gest's strong outing, it was the rest of the offensive unit that hit its stride early in the contest. 

Kenyon (3-17, 1-8 NCAC) flew around on both sides of the ball to open the game against the North Coast Athletic Conference's second seed, as Claudia Cooke opened up the scoring on the Owls' first possession. 

Wittenberg (15-5, 8-1) would answer with baskets of its own, but not before Anissa Hardy hit a smooth post-layup, while Mikayla Rudolph and Grace Murphy drained deep three-pointers to give Kenyon a 12-4 lead with less than five minutes to play in the opening quarter. 

However, the Tigers would answer with a massive scoring run and create problems on both ends for the Owls, rattling off a 37-8 stint for the rest of the first half, shooting 50 percent from the field and forcing 11 Kenyon turnovers leading to 16 points to end the half up 41-20. 

In the third, while the Owls were held to seven points, Gest was starting to heat up. After scoring only two points in the first half, she scored five of Kenyon's seven points in the third while the team trailed 56-27.

Gest would go on to score ten straight points to open the fourth quarter on 80 percent shooting from the field and a perfect mark from the charity stripe. She knocked down another deep three later in the quarter to help outscore the Tigers 19-15 in the final quarter and put the finishing touches on a 20-point outing, but the Owls ultimately fell 71-46. 

Rudolph was second on Kenyon's stat sheet with nine points, a team-high eight rebounds, one steal, and tied the team-high with two assists. Cooke ended with eight points and two blocks, Hardy had four points, Murphy had three and Melana Pomerants chipped in two. 

The loss drops the Owls' overall record to 3-17 overall and 1-8 in the NCAC. The team will stay in Gambier for its next conference matchup on Wednesday, January 31st to take on the Oberlin College Yeowomen at 8:00 PM.

 
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