POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. - Led by three double digit scorers, the Skidmore Thoroughbreds earned a 60-52 victory over the Vassar College Women's Basketball team at the Athletics and Fitness Center on Friday evening. Senior Alex Lee led the Brewers with 13 points as Vassar fell to 7-7 overall and 4-3 in Liberty League play while Skidmore improved to 10-3 overall and 6-0 in conference action.

The Thoroughbreds took an early 10-6 lead in the opening five minutes as Sarah Chambers rattled off a quick six points while freshman Bella Tawney converted two lay-ins for Vassar. Lee's jumper with 1:34 left kept the lead at four but Skidmore's Kate McCarney's bucket pushed the Throughbreds advantage to six after the first quarter of play.

Skidmore's lead improved to eight following a Becca Horger layup with 8:02 left until a old fashioned three-point play from freshman Caroline Siekman trimmed the advantage to three with just under five minutes to play in the half. A quick 5-0 spurt from a three-pointer from McCarney and a bucket from Maddie Hastings regained the Thoroughbreds eight point lead. A three-pointer from Lee just before the end of the half kept the Skidmore lead at 28-23 heading into the halftime intermission.

A 6-0 run to begin the third quarter for Vassar supplied its first lead of the game at 29-28 at the 8:24 mark. Following two free throws from sophomore Tova Gelb to tie the contest at 31 apiece, Skidmore closed the quarter on a 17-7 run and were led by nine points from Madison Meyer.

Andi Levitz's three-pointer at the 5:52 mark of the fourth quarter gave Skidmore its largest lead at 15 points before a three-pointer from freshman Maddie Ahearn cut the lead to ten with 4:25 remaining. The Brewers were unable to cut the score to single digits down the stretch until freshman Sam Lederman drilled a three-pointer with eight seconds left as Skidmore earned a eight point conference victory.

Lee finished with a game-high 13 points and added three boards while Tawney added nine points and a team-high eight rebounds. Senior Eliza Srinivasan also chipped in nine points, five rebounds and four assists for the Brewers.

McCarney led the Thoroughbreds with 12 points as Chambers tallied 11 points and six rebounds. Julia Blanck finished the evening with four points, eight rebounds, four blocks and two steals. Meyer was the third player in double digits with 10 points and added three assists.

Skidmore finished the evening with 38.1-percent shooting from the field and made five triples. The Brewers shot 27.4-percent on the evening and made two triples but outscored the Thoroughbreds by six at the free throw line.

Vassar will return to action tomorrow at home against RIT at 2:00 p.m. while Skidmore travels to Bard to take on the Raptors at 2:00 p.m. tomorrow.