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RPI Athletics on TwitterWILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. - Senior Kiley Shoemaker scored 26 points to lead Wheaton College (Mass.) to a 73-60 win over the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) women's basketball team in a game in the Williams College Tournament Classic.
Wheaton roared out of the gate to start, taking a 20-4 lead late in the first quarter. RPI came to life behind
Sam Krumbhaar, who scored six of the the Engineers' last 12 points of the quarter to cut Wheaton's lead to seven.
The Lyons soon returned to their aggressive ways, extending the lead to 20 by the end of the half off of the strength of Shoemaker's nine second-quarter points. At the end of the second quarter, Shoemaker sank a free throw for her 1000th career point. At the half, Wheaton led RPI 46-26.
The Lyons started the third quarter strong again, running their lead to 24 points, but RPI soon responded. Over a three-minute stretch,
LaKissa Martin scored 10 straight points for RPI to cut the lead to 17, as the Engineers went on a 10-3 run. At the end of the third quarter, Wheaton led 59-43, but RPI wasn't done trying to cut into the lead.
After Wheaton started out the quarter on a 7-2 run to open up a 21-point lead, RPI responded with eight straight points, highlighted by a three from
Elizabeth Eckhardt, an and-one layup by
Shaina Iton, and two free throws from Krumbhaar. The Engineers had cut the lead to just 13 points, but with almost three minutes left in the game, a comeback was unlikely, and Wheaton made sure of that, going on a 7-1 run to make it a 19-point game with just 1:41 left in the game.
Wheaton plays next at Springfield next Sunday at 1pm, while RPI is at The Sage Colleges on Tuesday night at 6pm.
