SUWANEE, Ga. - In the second weekend of cross division play, both Austin College and DePauw University swept SCAC games last week. The 'Roos earned road victories at Oglethorpe (78-58) and Sewanee (76-72) while the Tigers picked up home wins against Southwestern (67-38) and Trinity (83-56).

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Austin College ran its winning streak to 10 games with a pair of victories over Oglethorpe and Sewanee over the weekend, bringing the team to 14-3 overall and 8-1 in conference play. The ’Roos opened the weekend with a 78-58 win over Oglethorpe behind 18 points and 11 rebounds from Katy Williams, who hit 8-of-13 shots from the floor. Kersti Marusich added 19 points coming off the bench and Kayla Redden hit 3-of-6 threes on her way to 13 points. Austin College shot 50.8% from the field as a team in the game. Williams had a huge game on the glass in a 76-72 win over Sewanee, grabbing 21 rebounds to go along with 16 points. The 21 rebounds are the second highest single game total of her career. Marusich hit 3-of-4 from deep on her way to 15 points, Shayna Clardy added 14, Redden hit four threes and finished with 12 and Amber Stafford scored 11 points and added four assists in the victory. The ’Roos are back home this weekend when they host DePauw and Centre.

Birmingham-Southern split this weekend at home, the first time that the team has played in Bill Battle since Dec. 13, 2009. BSC lost to Hendrix College, 70-65, Friday, and defeated Millsaps College, 87-40, Sunday. Against Millasps, the Panthers broke the single-game rebounding record with 68 boards. Junior Katelyn Wilson led BSC against Hendrix with 13 points, and freshman Caroline King led with 11 points against Millsaps. Freshman Alex Adams pulled down a team-high nine rebounds in each game, and sophomore Erin Jackson posted two blocks in each contest.

Centre split a pair of SCAC games for the second consecutive weekend falling to Trinity 70-60 Friday and then defeating Southwestern 80-50 Saturday. Trailing by three points (36-33) at halftime after shooting only 37.9% (11-29) in the first half, the Colonels shot only 30.3% (10-33) in the second half to fall to the Tigers by 10 points. The very next night, sophomore guard Maggie Prewitt set a Centre single-game scoring record with 37 points, including 28 in the first half, to help lead the Colonels to a convincing 80-50 win over Southwestern. Centre, now 11-6 overall and 6-3 in the SCAC will travel to Colorado and Austin this week.

Colorado College overcame a 13-point deficit during the final 6:23 to defeat Sewanee, 83-82, on Friday night. Becky Luetjen scored two of her game-high 26 points with 55 seconds remaining to give CC an 83-80 lead. UOS led 73-60, but the Tigers used a 23-7 run to build a three-point lead with just a minute to play. Luetjen completed her seventh double-double of the season with 11 rebounds and added four steals. Laura Glen posted her first career double-double with career highs of 10 points and 15 rebounds. Alyssa Aldaz finished with 14 points, while Collier Clegg added 13 more. CC finished with a 54-39 advantage in rebounds and shot .514 from the floor in the second half. Colorado College overcame a 10-point deficit with seven minutes remaining, but couldn’t get a pair of three pointers to drop in the final 16 seconds and dropped an 83-80 decision at Oglethorpe on Sunday afternoon. Aldaz poured in 22 points, but her desperation shot from behind the arc wouldn’t go down. Luetjen also finished with 22 points and added career-highs with seven blocks and five steals. The Tigers play host to a pair of special events this weekend. Friday’s game against Centre will be CC’s Pink Zone, while the Tigers celebrate National Girls & Women in Sports Day in conjunction with Saturday’s game against DePauw.

DePauw improved to 15- 3 overall, 8-1 in the SCAC and extended its win streak to 11 with wins over Southwestern (67-38) and Trinity (83-56). DePauw scored the game's first six points and never trailed on the way to a 29-11 halftime lead. They then opened the second half with a 9-0 run and stretched the lead to 27. Katie Mathews led the Tigers with 15, while Jenna Fernandez followed with 10. Fernandez, Emily Marshall, Ellie Pearson and Danielle Boraz each grabbed seven rebounds as the Tigers held a 47-26 margin on the boards and hauled down 20 offensive rebounds. Against Trinity, DePauw never trailed and took a 42-31 lead into the intermission. Trinity was within nine at 46-37 before DePauw scored the next 12 and 18 of the next 21 to pull away. Brooke Osborne and Marshall each scored 14 in DePauw's winning effort. Marshall grabbed a game-high nine rebounds as the Tigers held a 46-25 edge on the boards. Osborne and Mathews each dished out four assists. With the wins, DePauw extended its home win streak to 46 straight and its string of consecutive home regular season victories to 63. DePauw has also now won 51 straight SCAC home games. DePauw shot 45.3 percent from the floor to Trinity's 35.3 percent and held a 25-8 advantage in second chance points. For the weekend, the Tigers outscored their opponents by an average of 75-47 and held a +21.0 rebound margin per game.

Hendrix picked up a pair of SCAC wins over the weekend against Birmingham-Southern on Friday night, 70-65, and Rhodes on Sunday afternoon, 71-69. The Warriors’ 12-3 overall record is their best through 15 games since going 13-2 in 2006-07 and their 7-2 conference mark ranks them second in the SCAC West Division. Hendrix College senior forward Christina Byler scored 20 points and sophomore guard Anna Roane added 14, as the Warriors edged Birmingham-Southern Friday night at the Bill Battle Coliseum. Hendrix led the entire game and a 7-0 run over a 1:36 span put Hendrix up by a game-high 14 points, 24-10, with 8:26 left in the first half. The Warriors scored 20 points off the Panthers’ 10 first-half turnovers and took a 33-27 lead into the break. Hendrix stretched its advantage to 11 points, 55-44, with 9:21 left in regulation, however, Birmingham-Southern caught fire and went on a 13-2 run to knot the game at 57-57 with 5:43 to go. The score was tied once more at 61-61 with 4:02 on the clock. The Warriors were clutch from the free-throw line the rest of the way with 9-of-10 shooting. Four free throws from sophomore guard Samantha Devlin in the final minute sealed the deal. Rhodes chipped away at a 17-point deficit in the second half and tied the game with 30 seconds left, until Hendrix head coach Thad McCracken used a timeout with 21 ticks to go to draw up a game-winning play. Senior forward Chelsey White found Byler open for a layup with 2.9 seconds on the clock to give the Warriors a big win on Sunday at Mallory-Hyde Gymnasium. Senior guard Amanda Morris put the Warriors up by 17 on a 3-pointer from sophomore guard Avery Roller with 15:23 left in regulation. Rhodes answered with an 11-0 run over the next three minutes to make it a six-point game. Hendrix led by seven points, 69-62, with 1:47 to go until Rhodes used four straight free throws and an old fashioned 3-point play to tie the game with 31 seconds left. The Lynx led once in the entire game when junior guard Lakeya McGill hit a jumper just two minutes into the first half. Hendrix outscored Rhodes, 16-2, off the bench and outrebounded the Lynx, 40-32.

Millsaps hit the road for a pair of conference games and were defeated by both Rhodes College and Birmingham-Southern College to fall to 0-18 overall and 0-9 in the SCAC. Committing a season low 11 turnovers was not enough for the injury plagued Majors as they fell Friday night at Rhodes, 65-54. With only six players healthy and dressed, Millsaps outscored the Lynx in the second half but could not overcome a 13-point halftime deficit. Sunday afternoon, the Majors faced a sharp-shooting Panthers team from Birmingham-Southern and remained winless on the season falling, 87-40. Millsaps shot a season-low 23.3 percent –14-for-60 – from the floor and could not control the glass as BSC out-rebounded the Majors 64-21. This weekend, Sewanee University and Oglethorpe University travel to Jackson to take on Millsaps Friday night at 6 p.m. and Sunday afternoon at 1 p.m.

Oglethorpe split a pair of home SCAC contests this past weekend, falling to Austin College (78-58) on Friday and topping Colorado College (83-80) on Sunday. Austin connected on 33 of 65 attempts for 51% while Oglethorpe struggled shooting 20-62 for 32% in earning the win over the Petrels. Mareva Bone returned to the lineup after a lengthy hiatus with injury and led all Petrels with 11 points on the night. Eleven of the healthy twelve women on the roster managed to score on the evening with Sarah Giles narrowly missing a double-double with 9 points and 14 rebounds. Against Colorado College, the Petrels snapped a five game losing streak to get back into the win column. The Petrels took control of the contest in the first half by holding the Tigers to 22.7% shooting from the field and Oglethorpe was able to open up a 10 point lead and then head into the locker room with an 8-point 37-29 advantage. The Tigers stormed back on two separate occasions in the second half to take a lead over Oglethorpe but head coach Ron Sattele's squad showed fortitude by rallying each time to push the Tigers away. Colorado College tied the game at 80 apiece with less than 40 seconds to play before fouling freshman Riley Cerone with 27 ticks left. The freshman stepped to the line and calmly nailed two free throws to give Oglethorpe a two point lead. With the results Oglethorpe is now 8-10 on the season and 3-6 in SCAC play. The Petrels are back in action this Friday when they face Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas.

Hendrix forward Christina Byler made a four foot jumper with 2.9 seconds to play to lift the Warriors to a 71-69 SCAC win over Rhodes in Mallory Gymnasium on January 24th. Byler's jumper negated a Lynx second half comeback that saw Rhodes rally from a 17 point deficit to tie the game at 69-69 with 31 seconds to play. Senior Becky Atnip converted a conventional three point play on a 17 foot jump shot and a Hendrix foul by Samantha Devlin. The Lynx were led by Jenilee Pate's 22 points and LaKeya McGill added a season high 20 points. The Warriors seemed in control after Amanda Morris knocked down a three point shot to give Hendrix a 50-33 lead with 15:23 to play. However, the Lynx fought back with a 11-0 run to cut the margin to 50-44 on a McGill layup with 11:47 to play. A three point basket by Hendrix guard Anna Roane gave the Warriors a 69-62 lead with 1:47 to play. The Lynx would go on a 7-0 run over the next 1:16 to tie the game at 69-69 before the Warriors scored on their final possesion for the victory. Rhodes falls to 10-8 on the season, Hendrix improves to 12-3.

Sewanee nearly pulled two upsets this weekend, leading both Colorado and Austin at halftime. The visitors rallied each time, though, and the Tigers took narrow losses in both games. Lauren Gulley and Christina Johnson each had 15 in Friday's game, while senior Kelly Morrison led Sewane with 23 points on Sunday. In keeping with their national ranking in both categories, the Tigers had 24 steals and 21 three-pointers on the weekend. Sewanee is now 5-12 and 1-8 in the SCAC. The Tigers will play at Millsaps and Hendrix this weekend.

Southwestern continued to struggle on the road as they dropped two road contests this week to fall to 8-10 overall and 4-5 in the SCAC. In both contests the Pirates struggled from the floor shooting just 29.1% from the floor over the two games. Southwestern returns home this weekend to begin a four-game home stand. This season Southwestern is an impressive 7-2 at home and look to continue to defend their home court. They face Rhodes College on Friday night at 6:00 pm and Birmingham Southern on Saturday night at 6:00 pm.

Trinity split a pair of road games at Centre and DePauw over the weekend, defeating Centre 70-60 on Friday night, but falling 56-83 to DePauw on Saturday.The Tigers were led by three players averaging in double figures over the weekend, including a team-high 15.0 points/game from Ali Marzella. Abby Dietert led the team with 7.5 rebounds/game to go with her 12.0 points/game in the two games, while Danielle Hubenak chipped in with 10.5 points/game and hit 3-7 from three-point range. With Hubenak’s 21 points scored, she moves into 18th place in Trinity history, eclipsing the 800-point barrier over the weekend. Additionally, she is on the verge of breaking an 11-year-old record for career assists. Hubenak needs just five more assists to break the school record of 295 assists, set by Christal Seahorn from 1995-99. Marzella, who leads the team with 30 three-pointers this season, is now just 13 away from becoming the second player in school history to score 100 or more three-point field goals in a career. She would need 19 more threes to break the school record, currently held Kim Sayles (1998-2002). Alexandra Blake remains poised for a milestone of her own, needing just three rebounds to reach 400 in her career. Only 13 Tiger women’s basketball players have ever reached 500 career rebounds. Trinity hosts Birmingham-Southern and Rhodes this weekend, opening up a stretch of four straight home games for the Tigers. Last season, Trinity split with these two teams on the road. The Tigers defeated BSC 76-67, but lost 58-64 to Rhodes.

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