Badgers End Season with Loss Against Charger

Badgers End Season with Loss Against Charger

The Colby-Sawyer women's basketball team ended the regular season with a 72-62 North Atlantic Conference (NAC) victory over Johnson State on senior day, Saturday afternoon. 

Colby-Sawyer finishes the regular season with a 15-10 overall record and earns the fourth seed in the NAC with a 12-6 record. The Chargers will host UMaine-Farmington on Tuesday in the first round of the NAC tournament. Johnson State ends its season at 6-18 overall and 6-12 in conference action.

Johnson got out to a 7-1 lead in the first 3:28 of the game thanks to five points from Dominique Carter-Stanley. The visitors held a lead until the 11:29 mark when Colby-Sawyer freshman Morgan Fogg knotted the game at 11-11 with a layup. The Chargers took their first lead with 8:03 left on a Kelsey Cahill lay-in with 8:03 on the clock. Colby-Sawyer held a lead for the remainder of the half and was ahead by 11 after a trey from freshman Sarah Donnelly (Medford, Mass.) at 4:19. The Badgers finished the half on 12-4 run to trail 38-35 going into the break. Donnelly had 13 points for Colby-Sawyer, while Carter-Stanley scored 12 for Johnson.

The Chargers did not let the visitors get closer than three points in the second frame and eventually pushed the advantage to 12 with a 9-0 run late in the half to take a 66-54 lead and secure the 72-62 victory.

Cahill finished the game with her seventh double-double of the season with 21 points and 13 rebounds. Donnelly and sophomore Lexi Iannone scored 13 points apiece.

Johnson was led by a 16-point effort from Brittany Robertson. Carter-Stanley finished with 14 points. Sophomore Sarah Voorhis played 18 minutes off the bench and added 10 points and eight rebounds.