Hood Women Stun Spartans, 75-68

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YORK, Pa.--The Hood College women's basketball team (6-7, 2-5 CAC) drained a season-high 10 three-pointers and set a school record for points scored in a Capital Athletic Conference game en route to an historic 75-68 road victory over York College (Pa.) (6-8, 3-3 CAC) Wednesday evening.

Despite spotting the Spartans the first eight points of the game, the Blazers battled back. Trailing 16-8 at the 13:36 mark, Hood outscored the Spartans 12-1 over the next 3:16 and took their first lead of the ballgame, 20-18, on a Kameran Evans three-pointer.

The lead changed hands four more times the rest of the stanza. Senior Allyson Lethbridge hit a huge three-pointer at the six-minute mark to give Hood its largest lead of the half, 28-24. The triple was a memorable one for Lethbridge as well; it was the 100th of her Blazer career and made her the fifth Hood player to reach the century mark.

After the Spartans reeled off a 10-0 run of their own to assume a 34-28 lead, the Blazers pocketed the final seven points of the half. A basket by first-year Kelsey Knippenberg clinched a one-point advantage for the Blazers in the final minute, and Hood led 35-34 at halftime.

Knippenberg, whose previous single-game scoring high was five points, exploded for 13 points and connected on 3-of-4 from long range in the opening period. Evans had the hot hand in the first half as well, hitting 5-of-8 from the field for 12 points.

The Blazers and Spartans traded baskets for the first few minutes of the second half before Hood took a 44-43 lead at the 13:20 mark on another Lethbridge trey. Hood would not trail again in the contest as the Blazers kept pouring in the long-range buckets. Lethbridge's career-high fifth three-pointer at the 5:53 mark gave the Blazers an 11-point advantage (59-48). York got no closer than six the rest of the way.

Hood handed the Spartans their fifth straight setback and snapped a seven-game losing streak against York dating back to the 2005-06 season. That year, the Blazers were members of the Atlantic Women's Colleges Conference and defeated York at the Charles Wolf Gym, 72-71, on Jan. 5.

The Blazers also set a new school record for points scored in a CAC game, eclipsing the previous record of 73 set against former member Gallaudet University on Dec. 6, 2007, the first CAC win in Hood history. 

Lethbridge finished with a game-high 20 points, hitting 5-of-6 from deep. Dyanna Prater scored all 14 of her points in the second half and recorded her second double-double in the blue-and-grey with a career-high 10 rebounds.

The Blazers look to get back to .500 Saturday at Washington Adventist University at 6:30 p.m.