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LEWISTON, Maine - The Bowdoin College women's basketball team
saw their season-long seven-game winning streak come to an end in a
64-59 non-conference loss at Bates on Thursday evening. The Polar
Bears fall to 10-3 this season as the Bobcats improve to 10-3. The
teams will play again in their NESCAC contest on January 23 in
Brunswick.
Bates built a lead as high as 20, at 47-27, with 16:28 to go,
but the Polar Bears clawed back to within four, at 63-59 with 11
seconds left in the game.
Val Beckwith scored 21 points with 7 rebounds for the Bobcats,
while Lauren Yanofsky added 17 points, 10 rebounds and 5 assists.
Katie Bergeron led the Polar Bears with 20 points, and Caitlin
Hynes chipped in with 10.
Yanofsky fueled a superior first half by the Bobcats, with 13
points, 8 rebounds, 4 assists and 2 blocked shots, and Bates went
into halftime with a 38-23 lead, having held Bowdoin to 27.8
percent shooting, including 1-10 from behind the arc.
Beckwith led off the second half with a rare four-point play to
bump the lead to 19, and a three-pointer by Kristen Finn at 16:28
opened it up to 47-27. Bowdoin responded with a 10-0 run, as
Bergeron converted an old-fashioned three-point play, followed it
with a three-pointer, and followed a layup by Colleen Sweeney with
a steal and layup of her own. Beckwith stemmed the bleeding with a
three-point play to bump the lead back to 13 (50-37) with 12:57
left.
Bates held Bowdoin at bay for the next 6 minutes, but Bergeron
fueled a 7-1 mini-run with a layup and a three to cut the lead to
57-51 with 3:48 left. Bates first-year Kelsey Flaherty answered
with a baseline jumper and two foul shots, and Beckwith hit two
more foul shots to make it 63-52 with 1:17 to go. But Bowdoin had
one more run in store, starting with a three-pointer by Maria
Noucas and followed by pairs of free throws by Hynes and Ellery
Gould, cutting it to 63-59 with 11 seconds left. Flaherty hit one
more foul shot with 8 ticks left for the final score.
Bowdoin enjoyed a 34-20 edge in points in the paint and a 15-5
advantage in second-chance points, while the Bates bench outscored
Bowdoin's 20-11.
