NASHUA, N.H. - January 21, 2020 - The Colby-Sawyer women's basketball team used a balanced attack to roll to a 69-54 Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) road win at Rivier.
Colby-Sawyer improves to 11-5 overall and 1-2 in the GNAC. The Chargers host Johnson & Wales on Saturday at 1 p.m. Rivier falls to 4-11 overall and 0-4 in the conference.
Senior
Tianna Sugars (Oxford, Maine) led the Chargers with her 11th double-double of the season. She tallied 16 points and 14 rebounds. Sugars climbed into seventh on the all-time scoring list with 1,225 points and fifth in career rebounds with 852. Senior
Lexie Hamilton (Sunapee, N.H.) flirted with a triple-double as she finished with seven points, 12 rebounds and 11 assists. First-years
Caitlyn Boucher (Swanzey, N.H.) and
Sydney Noyes (Newbury, Mass.) contributed 14 and 12 points, respectively.
Rivier received a game-high 18 points from Cydney Lessard. Alexandra Grumblatt grabbed more than half of the team's rebounds to finish with an impressive 23 to go with 11 points. Heather Ries registered a double-double of 11 points and 10 rebounds.
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Joslin Wainwright (Plainfield, N.H.) opened the scoring for the Chargers and the teams would traded the first six buckets of the contest to make the score 6-6 after four minutes. Sugars then hit a trey to put the Chargers on top and they never looked back. Lessard hit a three of her own with a minute to play to pull the Raiders to within a point, but first-year
Emily Parent (Oakland, Maine) responded with a three to give Colby-Sawyer an 18-14 lead after the first stanza.
The Chargers created separation in the second and third quarters by outscoring Rivier 17-8 and 15-9 to lead 50-31 after 30 minutes. Rivier got a few points back in the fourth with a 23-19 advantage in the final frame.
Colby-Sawyer scored 42 points in the paint.
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