CASTLETON, Vt. - February 6, 2018 - The Colby-Sawyer women's basketball team earned an important North Atlantic Conference (NAC) road win at Castleton, 48-46, on Tuesday evening. 

The Chargers, who avenged a loss at home to Castleton earlier in the season, improve to 17-5 overall and 12-3 in the NAC. Colby-Sawyer will celebrate senior day against intrastate rival New England College on Saturday at 1 p.m. Castleton suffers its second conference loss of the season to fall to 13-2 and 17-4 overall. The Spartans will travel to Thomas on Friday. 

After the Spartans tied the game at 46-46 on an Amanda Beatty layup with 13 seconds to play, the Chargers held for a final possession. Sophomore Lexie Hamilton (Sunapee, N.H.) lofted a pass to sophomore Tianna Sugars (Oxford, Maine) who converted a layup with 2.9 seconds to go to give Colby-Sawyer the lead. Castleton could not get a shot up as time expired sending the Chargers home with a big road win. 

Sugars led the Chargers with 13 points on 50% shooting. Senior Amanda Calvo (South Deerfield, Mass.) and senior Emmani Robinson (Newburgh, N.Y.) scored 10 points apiece. Hamilton added nine points, nine rebounds and six assists. She moved into 8th in career assists with 310 passing Amy Beaton's '07 total of 308. 

Amanda Beatty shot 7-of-13 from the field as she led the Spartans with 17 points and nine rebounds, while Makayla Farrara hit three three-pointers as she finished with 13 points. Ashlie Fay collected eight rebounds, five assists, and six steals during the game.

Castleton took a 26-21 halftime lead into the third and extended its advantage to 13 at 40-27 thanks to a 12-2 scoring run. Colby-Sawyer started its comeback by scoring the final nine points of the quarter, featuring the first three-pointer of the season by Sugars.
 
Colby-Sawyer continued its scoring run into the fourth quarter, as a layup by Emmani Robinson two minutes into the period tied the game at 40-40, and then another Robinson layup put the Chargers ahead, 42-40. Baskets by Sugars and Robinson extended the Colby-Sawyer lead to 46-40, completing a 19-0 Charger scoring run that spanned nine-and-a-half minutes.
 
Two free throws by Taylor Raiche with 3:32 remaining in regulation ended the Charger run, and then a layup by Raiche on Castleton's next possession closed the Spartan deficit to two. Neither team was able to score for over two-and-a-half minutes until Ashlie Fay found Beatty in the post for a layup with 13 seconds left in the fourth quarter, tying the game at 46-46.
 
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