BUFFALO, N.Y.   – After taking a three point lead in the second quarter, the Hilbert College women's basketball team ran out of gas after intermission and suffered a 75-36 AMCC loss at Medaille College tonight.
 
The Mavericks split the series with Hilbert this winter after the Hawks earned a 61-45 victory in Hamburg two weeks ago.

THE BASICS              

• Final Score: Medaille 75  |  Hilbert 36
• Location: Sullivan Center  | Buffalo, NY
• Records: I  Mavs 8-10, 3-6  AMCC | Hawks 5-14. 4-6 AMCC 

HIGHLIGHTS
 

• Ashley Schroeder drove the bus today lifting the Hawks with 33 minutes of aggressive play.  She tossed in 14 points, hitting 5-of-8 from the field and swiped two steals along with five rebounds before fouling out.
• McKenzie Walker reached for eight points and Kendyl Kerner notched nine rebounds while Macy Kisner earned a team best ten rebounds.

 
HOW IT HAPPENED
 

• The Mavericks forced a Hilbert timeout three and a half minutes into the quarter after building an 8-0 lead.
• The Hawks went on a 9-2 run after that, and pulled themselves back into the game with 2:30 on the clock.
• Four consecutive makes at the charity stripe by Hilbert preceded the Walker 3-pt make at 3:40.
• Schroeder then made back-to-back pushes in transition to the hoop which resulted in a pair of makes at the foul line setting a 10-9 score.
• The Hawks, trailing 14-9 at the start of the second quarter, worked the ball around the horn and found Walker again who landed a short jumper thirteen seconds into the session.
• Kisner dumped the ball to Kerner at the weak block and she finished the play, pulling the Hawks within one point.
• Schroeder took over on offensive and pushed the Hawks into the lead.  She drove the ball up the court with purpose, hit a jumper, set up a 3-point make by Walker, grabbed a defensive rebound and finished in the paint at the opposite end twice which gave Hilbert a 22-19 advantage with 5:06 remaining.
• Hilbert suffered through eight-empty trips before Alesia Hamm connected twice from 15-feet out.
• Medaille padded their lead with two buckets before the break and took a 34-24 lead to the locker room.
• Hilbert was able to muster only seven points in the third quarter and finished the fourth with five points suffering a 41-12 scoring blitz by the Mavs in the second half.
• Schroeder knocked down a deep shot in the first 60-seconds after the break.  Kisner grabbed a defensive rebound and completed a fast-break layup in the paint four minutes later which maintained a 10-point spread (39-29).
• Medaille closed the third period on a 25-2 run and stretched it after the inbounds pass in the fourth. Schroeder and Kisner each found the bottom of the net and Hamm sank one from the foul line to complete Hilbert's scoring for the game.

 
GAME NOTES

• Alesia Hamm went 5-for-8 at the foul line, scoring all her points at the charity stripe.
• The Hawks shot .229-percent from the floor, hit three 3-pointers and made 11-of-18 at the foul line while the hosts finished the game with a .542 shooting performance, sinking six deep shots and went to the line only eight times, hitting five.
• Rebounding was tight, with Medaille holding a 3-board advantage (36-33), but the Hawks committed 22 turnovers which the Mavs converted into 22 easy points.

WHAT'S NEXT

The women's basketball team returns to action this weekend when they travel to Pittsburgh for their rematch against the AMCC Preseason favorites La Roche University January 29 at 2pm.