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DUDLEY, Mass. - January 22, 2011 – Led by a career-high 28 points from sophomore guard Taylor DeSanty, the Colby-Sawyer College women's basketball team defeated host Nichols, 90-82 Saturday afternoon in a The Commonwealth Coast Conference game.
The Chargers improve to 8-7 overall and 4-1 in TCCC action after their third win in a row. Nichols falls to 6-10 overall and 0-5 in conference play.
DeSanty sank four three-pointers in the game and added seven rebounds, while Cailin Bullett added 19 points and a game-high eight assists.
Nichols seniors Jessica Nelson (North Providence, R.I.) and Ashley Robidoux (Milford, Mass.) combined for 48 points, 16 rebounds and nine assists, netting 24 and eight rebounds apiece. Robidoux, who went 6-of-9 from three-point range, came within two points of becoming the 11th Nichols player to score 1,000 career points.
The first half featured end-to-end action with neither team holding more than a four-point advantage. After the seventh tie of the game, DeSanty followed a pair of Ashley Fruzzetti free throws with a fast-break bucket to put the Chargers up by four, but Nichols countered with five points from Robidoux and two swishes from the line by Natalie Wilson (Bedford, N.H.) to swing it back in favor of the Bison, 29-26. Another wild swing in the opposite direction was capped by a DeSanty jumper and saw the Chargers back up by four less than two minutes later, and the teams battled through two more ties before Colby-Sawyer carried a two-point lead into halftime, 41-39.
The second half stayed close until a 14-3 Chargers run late in the game broke a 63-63 deadlock and set the tone for the remainder of the tilt. Nichols chipped away at the lead and brought it down to as little as four with 18 seconds remaining, but the Chargers hit their remaining free-throws to keep the game in check.
The Bison finished the game with their highest offensive output since November of 2008, and fired 41% from the floor. The Chargers, meanwhile, shot 43.8% and scored 90 points for the first time since January, 2008. Both teams finished with 40 rebounds, but Colby-Sawyer dominated the paint with a 32-18 point differential.
Colby-Sawyer returns to action on Tuesday when they host Middlebury College. Tip-off is set for 7:00pm. Nichols returns to action on Thursday January 27 in a 7:30 p.m. TCCC game at Western New England College.
-Courtesy of Nichols College Sports Information
