NEW LONDON, N.H. – December 10, 2016 – The Colby-Sawyer women's basketball team outscored Maine Maritime 22-12 in the fourth quarter to secure a 69-60 North Atlantic Conference (NAC) victory on Saturday afternoon.    

Colby-Sawyer improves to 6-3 overall and 3-1 in the NAC. The Chargers will return to the court on Friday, December 30 with a home game against Manhattanville. Maine Maritime drops to 4-4 overall and 1-3 in the NAC. The Mariners heads to Daytona Beach, Fla. at the end of the month to play a pair of games at the Land of Magic Classic.
 
Freshman Chelsea Dow (White River Junction, Vt.) led the Chargers for the second straight game with 19 points on 7-of-12 shooting. The guard added eight steals, which is tied for the fourth most in a game in program history. Freshman Lexie Hamilton (Sunapee, N.H.) was the second Colby-Sawyer player in double figures with 13 points. She added six assists and six steals. Senior Ally Mignault (Billerica, Mass.) collected a team best eight rebounds.
 
Maine Maritime was led by the conference's second leading scorer in sophomore Alayne Felix (Mahopac, N.Y.). She scored 26 points on 11-of-17 shooting. Freshman Chloe Smedley (York, Maine) had 17 points on 6-of-12 shooting and a team best eight rebounds.
 
The visitors got off to a hot start and led 10-2 three minutes into the game. Colby-Sawyer pulled even with eight straight points on a pair of threes and a layup. The Chargers then went in front 15-13 after a trey from Hamilton, but a pair of Felix free throws pulled the Mariners even. The teams then exchanged three-pointers, but a Dow layup with a second left put the Chargers in front 20-18 after one.
 
Four minutes into the second, a Caitlin Kane (Wilton, Maine) pulled Maine Maritime within a bucket at 26-24. Colby-Sawyer then scored seven straight capped by a Morgan Fogg (Sanford, Maine) jumper to take its largest lead of the half, 33-24. The Mariners clawed back and cut the deficit to one after a Felix layup ended the second quarter.
 
Maine Maritime shot 51.9% from the floor in the half, while Colby-Sawyer was 37.1% but the Chargers held the lead thanks to a 5-1 advantage in made three-pointers.
 
Each team struggled offensively in the third and shot below 28%. The game was tied on three occasions in the stanza and neither team held a lead larger than three. With the score knotted at 46-46 with less than a minute to go, Morgan Fogg converted one of two free throws to put Colby-Sawyer up, but only momentarily as a jumper by Kristi Willey (Topsham, Maine) gave the Mariners a 48-47 lead after three.
 
Chelsea Dow opened the fourth with five straight points to give Colby-Sawyer the lead, but consecutive jumpers by Felix tithed the game for the 10th time with six minutes to play. The teams then exchanged a pair of baskets before Colby-Sawyer used a 6-0 spurt to take a 60-54 lead and never looked back. The Chargers made 7-of-8 free throws in the final two minutes to secure the 69-60 victory.

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