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Washington & Jefferson 71, Ohio Wesleyan 66
Case Reserve 67, Westminster (Mo.) 61

Sophomore wing Mary Corbett (Columbus/Upper Arlington) scored to tie the game at 61, but Washington & Jefferson used a late 6-0 run to pull away for a win in the second round of the Bishop Classic/Hoops for Hope tournament on Sunday at Branch Rickey Arena.

In Sunday's opener, Case Reserve held off a Westminster comeback to post a win.

Corbett's jumper from the lane evened the game at 61 with 3:26 left in regulation time.

Washington & Jefferson took the lead with a Kara Seamon lay-in with 2:46 left, and after an offensive foul was called on sophomore post Kristin Henning (Beavercreek), the Presidents added a pair of Chelsea Apke free throws to take a 65-61 lead.

Corbett buried a 3-pointer to bring the Bishops within 65-64 with 1:53 remaining, but Apke hit the first of 2 free throws with 1:28 to play, Seamon sank a pair of free throws at the :42 mark, and Emily Abraham went 3-for-4 from the line for a 71-64 lead with :15 to play.

Ohio Wesleyan had built a first-half lead, breaking a 22-22 tie with a 9-1 run that included a jumper by sophomore guard Sarah McQuade (Dublin/Coffman), a 3-pointer from freshman guard Hanna Fedorka (North Canton/Massillon Jackson), and baskets by Corbett and McQuade, the last giving the Bishops a 31-23 lead with 7:05 left in the first half.

The Presidents rallied to tie the game, pulling even on Seamon's 3-pointer with 1:37 left in the half, only to see the Bishops push the lead back to a half-dozen as freshman wing Emily Julius (Avon) and McQuade opened the second half with buckets.

The lead would go back and forth 7 times during the next 16-plus minutes of play, with neither team leading by more than 4 points heading into the final 2 minutes of play.

McQuade and Corbett shared the Bishop lead with 14 points, Julius added 13 points and led the Bishops with 6 rebounds, and Fedorka scored 10 points and dished out a team-high 5 assists.

Apke led the Presidents with 22 points and 11 rebounds, and Valerie Dunlap posted a second consecutive double-double with 13 points and 12 boards.

In the opener, Westminster took a 25-20 lead on a Leigh Ann Lutz jumper with 5:33 left in the first half, but Case Reserve finished the half with a 14-3 run, getting 3-pointers from Erica Iafelice and Evelyn Iacono along the way, and a buzzer-beating putback from Marissa Miles for a 34-28 lead at the break.

The Spartans pushed the lead to 40-31 on a Miles jumper early in the second half only to see the Blue Jays battle back to within a single marker when Lutz's 3-pointer made it 42-41 with 14:48 left in regulation time.

Case Reserve then went on a 13-2 spree fueled by 3-pointers from Iacono and Brooke Orcutt, extending the margin to 55-43, and the Spartans still held a 58-48 advantage with 6:48 remaining.

The Blue Jays whittled the deficit to 59-55 when Hannah Kloster hit the second of 2 free throws with 2:45 remaining, but the Spartans put the game away at the line, getting 4 free throws from Emily Mueller, and on the offensive boards, grabbing 4 of their own missed shots during the final minutes of the game.

Iacono led Case Reserve with 17 points.

Lutz finished with 28 points, a single marker short of the tournament scoring record.

Iacono and Lutz represented their respective teams on the all-tournament team, joining McQuade of Ohio Wesleyan and Apke and Seamon of Washington & Jefferson.

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