NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. - The Westminster College women's basketball team lost its sixth straight game Wednesday night with a 60-41 setback at home against Washington & Jefferson in a Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC) game.
The Titans' record drops to 6-13 on the season and 3-7 in the PAC, while the Presidents, ranked No. 21 in the d3hoops.com national poll, improve to 18-2 overall and 9-1 in the PAC.
Three Titans scored eight points to lead Westminster in scoring, including senior guard Gina Brunetti (Canfield, Ohio/Cardinal Mooney), freshman forward Emily Dolsak (McDonald, Ohio/McDonald) and sophomore point guard Kaitlin McCarthy (Lowellville, Ohio/Lowellville). In addition, senior forward Katherine Khattab (Bixby, Okla./Bixby) bucketed seven points to go with a team-high six rebounds. McCarthy led the Titans with four assists.
Kennan Killeen led W&J with 15 points while Emily Hays bucketed 13 points, including the 1,000th point of her career. Maggie Gibson led the Presidents with a game-high nine rebounds to go with four points.
Westminster kept the score close early, trailing by just one point with five minutes left in the first half before the Presidents clung to a 29-23 halftime lead. The Titans could only cut the lead to five points early in the second half before W&J ran away with the win. The Presidents went on a 7-0 run to take a 15-point, 45-30 lead with 12:07 left in the game.
W&J shot 44.2 percent (23-52) from the floor while smothering the Titans to just 30 percent (15-50) from the field including 14.3 percent (3-21) shooting from 3-point range.
Westminster returns to action Saturday when it hosts Waynesburg at 2 p.m.
About Westminster College...
Founded in 1852 and related to the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Westminster College is ranked 15th among liberal arts colleges, according to the Washington Monthly 2007 Annual College Guide. Westminster is a national leader in graduation rate performance, according to U.S. News Guide to America's Best Colleges, and is one of the most affordable national liberal arts colleges in Pennsylvania. Westminster is also honored as one of "The Best 368 Colleges" and "Best in the Northeast" by The Princeton Review, and was recognized by the Templeton Guide as a "Character Building College."
Nearly 1,600 undergraduate and graduate students benefit from individualized attention from dedicated faculty while choosing from 41 majors and nearly 100 organizations on the New Wilmington, Pa., campus.
