It�s not bragging if you can back it up and Greensboro has been doing just that. The Pride edged Christopher Newport 75-73 to finish the regular season 24-1. Dione Eccles scored 17 points, including the 1,000th of her career, while CNU's Chelsie Schweers (also a sophomore 1,000-point club member) led all scorers with 29. No. 9 York (Pa.) won its 24th consecutive game, beating Marymount 70-59 to finish running the table in the Capital Athletic Conference.
No. 3 George Fox beat Pacific Lutheran 73-51 to complete a perfect regular season. Denison finished the NCAC regular season unbeaten for the first time after a 78-64 victory over Allegheny. Saturday's women's scores.
Skidmore beat William Smith 69-67, earning the Thoroughbreds their first Liberty League playoff berth ever. Kellye Caufield converted two free throws with 0.2 seconds left. Latasha Coney recorded a triple-double for the Herons in defeat with 14 points, 12 assists and 11 rebounds. Webster's Myrtie Reilly recorded a triple-double as well, with 20 points, 12 rebounds and 10 blocks in a 77-70 overtime loss to Greenville. Baruch's Kalea Davis had a double of her own, her 15th consecutive double-double, tying the Division III record held by Southern Maine's Ashley Marble and Wenworth's Cheyenne Noble.
&&f-boxl&&A couple ranked teams needed late heroics to finish the regular season with a win. No. 3 Hope survived a Calvin rally and defeated its archrival 68-65. Jenny Cowen scored five points in the last minute to lift the Flying Dutch to victory. No. 20 Muhlenberg needed eight points in the final 45 seconds to upend Ursinus 68-65 (Watch highlights.). No. 24 DeSales scored the final 13 points of the game as part of a 24-7 run to surge past Alvernia 68-65.
A few ranked teams are already finished with the regular season and in conference playoff action. No. 6 Amherst cruised past Colby 77-36 in the NESCAC quarterfinals setting up a showdown with No. 15 Tufts who took care of Wesleyan 71-57. Both will travel to top-seeded Bowdoin next Saturday where the Polar Bears host Trinity (Conn.). The Bantams knocked off Bates 76-71.
In the NJAC tournament�s first round, William Paterson edged Rowan 51-50. BriAnna Lucas� ninth steal of the game denied the Profs a game-winning shot, propelling the Pioneers into the semifinals. Kean trounced Rutgers-Newark 68-33 to advance as well.
Washington College beat Johns Hopkins for the first time in the series' history, as Jane O'Donnell hit for 16 points (including her 1,000th) in a 66-58 win. Pacific made the Northwest Conference tournament for the first time in 13 years, winning 62-55 at Linfield.