COLCHESTER, Vt. - The Saint Michael's College women's basketball team limited Saint Thomas Aquinas College to 17 second-half points during a 69-49 victory on Wednesday in the Ross Sports Center.
 
RECORDS

• Saint Michael's (5-3), Saint Thomas Aquinas (2-9)

SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS

• Senior Molly Brophy (Greenwich, Conn./Greenwich Central School), 22 points (career high), 4 rebounds, 3 assists, 3 steals, 7-for-12 field goals, 3-for-7 three-pointers, 5-for-6 free throws
• Sophomore Kelli Cieplicki (Colchester, Vt./Rice Memorial), 9 points, 2 steals, 4-for-9 field goals
• Sophomore Margaret Montplaisir (Portsmouth, N.H./Portsmouth), 9 points, 2 steals
• Junior Amber Furch (Los Angeles, Calif./Brentwood School), 7 points, 4 steals
• Junior Ruby Santos (New Paltz, N.Y./Kent School), 6 points, 4 assists, 3-for-3 field goals
• Junior Jayla Tyler (Albany, N.Y./Colonie Central/Saint Rose), 6 points, 2 steals, 2 blocks
• Junior Ashlee Talbot (Dracut, Mass./Dracut), 6 assists

OPPONENT LEADERS

• Redshirt senior Abby Jacoby, 15 points, 3 assists, 3-for-4 three-pointers
• Sophomore Iyana Morel, 12 points, 3 steals
• Redshirt sophomore Bailey Chapman, 10 rebounds

GAME FACTS

• Brophy scored 15 of her points after halftime, including while singlehandedly outscoring Saint Thomas Aquinas, 9-7, in the third quarter.
• Saint Michael's picked up 18 steals while forcing the Spartans into 29 turnovers.
• In a series that began in 1983, the Purple Knights improved to 6-3 against the Spartans while facing them for only the second time outside of a tournament. Saint Michael's earned its first series win since Dec. 1, 2008.

THE ACTION

• Saint Michael's scored the game's first seven points before the visitors countered with an 8-0 run, going ahead on Morel's fastbreak lay-up at 4:50 of the opening quarter. That was the first of nine lead changes in the first half, as the visitors led by as many as six points on two occasions in the second period.
• Behind 70.0% first-quarter shooting and an 8-of-10 free throw effort in the second stanza, Saint Thomas Aquinas led by halftime, 32-29.
• Saint Michael's scored the first nine points of the third, and Cieplicki's foul-line jumper at 4:02 put her team ahead for good, sparking a 14-0 run that carried into the fourth quarter.
• The Spartans came no closer than 52-44 down the stretch, as the hosts countered with a 16-3 stretch.

NEXT SAINT MICHAEL'S GAME

• Friday at Felician University, 1 p.m.