The 18th-ranked Blue Jays outscored Swarthmore 26-9 in the second half to fend off the upset minded Garnet, 43-37 in Centennial Conference action. The Garnet led by as many as 13 but cold shooting was its undoing. The Garnet played tenacious defense and crashed the boards in building a 28-17 halftime advantage over the Blue [...]
Swarthmore College junior Radiance Walters (Gaithersburg, MD – The Bullis School) averaged 11 points, and 11.5 rebounds in the Garnet’s 3-1 week to earn Centennial Conference Player of the Week honors for December 6. The 5-9 forward recorded double-doubles of 13 points and 14 rebounds against St. Joseph (CT) and 11 points and 13 boards [...]
All-Tournament selection Radiance Walters ’06 scored 11 points and grabbed 13 rebounds, while Jen Stevenson ’06 added 10 points as Swarthmore fell 50-44 to Mt. Holyoke in the championship game of the Seven Sisters Tournament. The Lyons took a 25-18 lead with 4:26 left in the half, led by the penetration of Joeanna Silvey. Swarthmore [...]
Kristen Lee ’05 scored a game-high 15 points to lead Swarthmore to a 70-48 victory over Vassar in the semifinals of the Seven Sisters Tournament hosted by Bryn Mawr. The Garnet will face Mount Holyoke tomorrow at 3 pm in a rematch of last year’s Championship game, which the Lyons won 54-49. Swarthmore jumped out [...]
Ali Wolff ’05, Radiance Walters ’06, and Laura Popovics ’08 all scored 13 points as Swarthmore broke out in the second half to defeat St. Joseph’s College (CT) 65-39 at the annual Seven Sisters Tournament in Bryn Mawr, Pa. St. Joseph’s grabbed an early 10-2 lead in the first half, led by Edna Cammano’s hot [...]
Kristen Lee ’05 equaled her career-high of 18 points to lead the Garnet to a 63-49 Centennial Conference victory at Ursinus. Lee got the Garnet off to a fast start, scoring 15 of her game-high 18 points in the first half. The co-captain was 6-of-12 from the floor, connecting on 3-of-4 3-point attempts to give [...]
First-year forward Karen Berk recorded her first career double-double with a game-high 13 points and 10 rebounds to lead the Garnet in a 66-49 loss at McDaniel. For the second consecutive game Swarthmore struggled to find its shooting touch from the floor, hitting just 18 of 60 attempts (30%), while the Terror hit 27 of [...]
All-Tournament selection Lauren Deveareaux scored 18 points to lead Plymouth State (1-1) to a 86-52 victory over Immaculata in the consolation game of the Swat Tip Off on Saturday night. Meg Legere scored 30 points and grabbed 8 boards as Immaculata fell to 0-2.
Jessica Shifflett scored 13 points and Tournament MVP Debbie Bruen added 10 as Mary Washington defeated Swarthmore 61-52 to win the annual Swat Tip Off on Saturday night at Tarble Pavilion. The Eagles used a 12-2 run at the start of the second half to open 32-26 advantage that was never relinquished. Mary Washington benefited [...]
Debbie Bruen dropped in 16 points, while Jenn Olinger and Jessica Shifflett contributed 12 points apiece to lead Mary Washington to a 88-64 win over Plymouth State in the second game in the annual Swat Tip-Off at Tarble Pavilion. The Eagles outscored the Panthers 53-37 in the second half alone to earn a date with [...]