Box Score

BRUNSWICK, Maine - December 10, 2009 -The Colby-Sawyer women's basketball team fell to fourth ranked Bowdoin, 60-40 on Thursday evening. The Polar Bears improve to 7-0 this season, while the Chargers slip to 3-5 with the loss.

The Polar Bears scored the first 14 points of the game, as Caitlin Hynes sparked the run with a hoop-and-harm to get Bowdoin going and scored six points in the spurt. The Chargers responded with a surge of their own, trimming the lead to eight points, 20-12, on a Terri Duffy layup with seven minutes left in the period. But the Polar Bears dominated the paint, holding a 31-21 edge in rebounding and notching 18 points in the paint to carry a 28-12 lead into intermission.

Bowdoin led by as many as 23 points in the second period en route to victory and finished with a 49-36 edge on the glass.

The teams combined to shoot just 31% from the field for the game as Katie Bergeron led all players with 14 points for the hosts. Hynes ended with 11 for Bowdoin while Rubega scored five to go with her 20 caroms. Rubega's rebound total is the most for a Polar Bear player in 30 years, tying for the fifth-best mark in a single-game in program history. Freshman Cailin Bullett led Colby-Sawyer with 13 points.

-- courtesy of Bowdoin athletics