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Albany, N.Y. - The Sage College's women's basketball team hosted Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in a non-conference match-up in Kahl Gym on Tuesday night and the homestanding Gators collected a 56-53 win to improve to 3-2. RPI, which had a chance to tie the game at the end of regulation with a three-point shot from the left corner, drops to 2-3.

Sage led 28-23 at the break and by game's end got 14 points from sophomore forward Gen Schoff (Little Falls, NY/Little Falls) as she had a double-double with a career-best 15 rebounds. Junior guard Frankie Pearson (Hoosick Falls, NY/Hoosick Falls Central) and rookie guard Kaitlyn Bowman (Dannamora, NY/Saranac) each finished with 10 points.

For the Engineers, rookie guard Sam Krumbhaar (Glen Burnie, MD/North County) finished with a game-best 18 points and hauled in a team-high eight rebounds.

Down the stretch, RPI pulled within one point three times in the final quarter (50-49, 2:41, 52-51, 1:35 and again at 0:11, 54-53).

Krumbhaar hit a layup at 1:35 to pull her squad to 52-51, but Sage's rookie Emily Parslow (Fonda, NY/Fonda-Fultonville) went to the line in the final minute and hit all four of her free throws to preserve the win. 

Sage hosts Southern Vermont College on Monday, November 30 at 7:00 p.m. in Kahl Gym, while RPI is back in action on December 1 on the road at Keene State for a 6 p.m. match-up.