Box Score
WATERVILLE, ME (November 20, 2009) – Standing on the wrong end of a 17-2 run proved the downfall for the Vassar College women’s basketball team on Friday evening in the first game of the Colby Invitational as host Colby College picked up a 61-45 win over Vassar. Despite tying the game 28-28 two and a half minutes into the second half, the Brewers scored just one basket over the next five minutes as the Mules erupted for 17 points to break open the game.
The Brewers fall to 1-1 and will play Thomas College in the consolation game at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday. Improving to 1-0, the Mules will play in the championship game at 3:00 p.m.
Trailing 26-18 with 2:13 to play until halftime, the Brewers scored six unanswered off baskets from freshman
Tori Chaltain, senior
Emily Haeuser, and sophomore
Kristyn Tempora to take just a two-point deficit into the locker room. Although Colby’s Rachael Mack scored the first basket of the second half, Haeuser and Tempora responded with back-to-back lay-ups to tie the game at 28 with 17:36 to play in the game. However, a basket by Colby’s Aarika Ritchie broke the tie and the Mules cruised from there on, scoring 12 unanswered in the midst of a 17-2 run. Although a three-pointer by Tempora with 8:17 to play brought the Brewers within ten, 47-37, it was as close as Vassar would get as the Mules built their lead to its largest at 22 with 3:30 to play in the game.
The Mules scored the first basket of the game and never trailed, although the Brewers tied the score on three separate occasions. Thanks to nine first half points from sophomore
Brittany Parks, Vassar stayed within striking distance for the first twenty minutes, never trailing by more than eight points.
Playing in her home state, Haeuser, a South Portland resident, led the Brewers with a 13-point, 12-rebound double-double, to go along with a game-high four steals. Chaltain was one rebound shy of her first career double-double, with 10 points and nine rebounds. Parks finished with nine points, while Tempora contributed seven points and five rebounds. Junior
Carolyn Crampton added five points, five rebounds, and three assists.
Samantha Allen led a balanced scoring attack for Colby, with 13 points, followed by 10 points apiece from Julianne Kowalski and Diane Manduca. The Mules put all ten players on their roster in the scoring column, with six players scoring six points or more and received 23 bench points, while Vassar got all but one point from its starting five.