COLCHESTER, Vt. - The Saint Michael's College women's basketball team lost to No. 16 Assumption University, 69-43, on Wednesday during a Northeast-10 Conference contest in the Ross Sports Center. The Greyhounds were 16th in this week's D2CSC national poll and 20th in the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) national poll. Assumption is tied for second in the D2CSC East Region poll and is among 10 teams considered in the first NCAA East Region rankings.
 
RECORDS

• Saint Michael's (5-21, 1-19 NE10), Assumption (21-4, 16-4 NE10)

SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS

• First-year Amber Furch (Los Angeles, Calif./Brentwood School), 12 points, 4 rebounds, 2 assists
• Senior Jaxson Nadeau (Wakefield, Mass./Tilton School), 9 points, 3-for-6 field goals
• Senior Makayla Blake (Colonie, N.Y./Colonie Central), 6 points, 4 rebounds
• Senior Paige Slaven (Fair Haven, N.J./Rumson-Fair Haven Regional), 6 points, 3 rebounds
• First-year Ruby Santos (New Paltz, N.Y./Kent School), 5 points, 6 rebounds, 2 steals
• Junior Molly Brophy (Greenwich, N.Y./Greenwich Central School), 6 rebounds, 3 offensive rebounds, 2 steals

OPPONENT LEADERS

• Senior Molly Stokes, 20 points, 5 rebounds, 2 steals
• Junior Kaijhe Hall, 12 points, 6 rebounds, 2 blocks, 6-for-8 field goals
• Junior Marina Callahan, 11 points, 6 rebounds, 5 assists, 2 blocks, 4-for-8 field goals
• Senior Amanda Mieczkowski, 8 points, 7 assists, 5 rebounds
• First-year Emma Dahl, 8 points, 7 rebounds, 2-for-4 three-pointers

GAME FACTS

• The Purple Knights played their last two games in three games against nationally-ranked opponents. Six of their last seven opponents were at least regionally ranked.
• Saint Michael's outscored its nationally-ranked foe in the first quarter for the second straight game, having trimmed No. 17 Bentley University by a 14-13 in the opening frame on Monday.

THE ACTION

• Slaven had a hand in her team's first six points as the Purple Knights led 8-2 by 6:56 of the opening quarter, and the hosts still led 14-8 on Santos' lay-in at 9:49 of the second quarter.
• The Greyhounds shot 5-for-7 from three-point range in the period to push ahead 31-21 by halftime, at one point scoring 11 straight points, keyed by eight in a row from Stokes.
• Callahan netted the first bucket of the second half to extend the Assumption lead to 12, but seniors Nadeau, Slaven and Blake all scored in a 7-0 response, and the hosts were still down 39-33 following Furch's jumper at 3:48 of the third stanza.
• The Greyhounds scored the next 14 points in a run that continued into the final period, led by Dahl (5) and Mieczkowski (4), and their lead never slipped to fewer than 18 points from there.

NEXT SAINT MICHAEL'S GAME

• Saturday at Adelphi University, 1:30 p.m.