Four Garnet Hit Double Digits, Swarthmore Downs Bryn Mawr
SWARTHMORE, Pa. - The Garnet women picked up the first Centennial win of the season and put a three-game skid to bed as defeating visiting Bryn Mawr 60-50 Tuesday night in Tarble Pavilion. Four Garnet women scored double-digit points to send Swarthmore (4-6 overall, 1-4 CC) to its 30th consecutive win over the Owls (2-7 overall, 0-4 CC).
Garnet junior Karen Berk posted a game-high 18 points with 10 rebounds for her seventh double-double of the season while fellow forward Pamela Costello added 12 points and eight rebounds. Melissa Grigsby contributed 11 points for Swarthmore while junior Kristen Traband posted a new career-high with 10 points off the bench.
Bryn Mawr opened the game with four straight points and held the Garnet without a shot attempt for the first 1:51 and without a point for the first 3:25. After Grigsby got the Garnet on the board with a 15-footer, a Katie Driscoll three-pointer with 16:02 remaining in the half gave the Owls their largest lead, 7-2. Costello led her team back into the game, tying it once at 7-7 with a trey and again at 9-9 with a lay-up before Traband gave the Garnet their first lead of the game, 11-9 with a short jumper with 12:49 to play.
The Garnet remained in control for the rest of the half. Costello led the way with 12 points and seven rebounds, while frontcourt mate Berk added eight points and five boards. Freshman guard Lisa Schumacher capped things off with a three-pointer from the top of the key with 22 seconds left to give the hosts their largest lead of the evening at 35-21.
Both teams struggled to find points to start the second half--Berk scored her fourth point of the half to put Swarthmore up 39-24 at 11:29. Traband converted an old-fashioned three-point play after a nice feed from Grigsby at 9:32 and the Garnet had the largest lead of the night, 42-25, at 9:32. From that point it became a free-throw competition and Swarthmore, ranked second in the Centennial at 84.6% coming into the night, sank 10 of 14 to maintain at least an eight-point edge for the rest of the game. On the other side, the Owls hit only six of 14, finishing eight of 21 on the night.
Driscoll was a perfect 4 for 4 from beyond the arc to led Bryn Mawr with 14 points. Sophomore Jessica Allen had a game-high 14 rebounds and senior Amy Johnson added 13 rebounds. Sophomore wing Julia Harris tied her season-high with seven steals.
Swarthmore is off for 25 days to take final examinations and a holiday break—its next game will be at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, January 6 at Dickinson.