BEREA, OHIO -- All-American center Carrie Snikkers scored a game-high 18 points and grabbed a game-high nine rebounds as the host and No.2-ranked Hope College of Michigan women's basketball team defeated Baldwin-Wallace College, 72-45, today (Saturday, November 20, 2010) in the Championship Game of the Hope Tip-Off Classic in the DeVos Center in Holland, Michigan.
Despite the loss, B-W, now 2-1 overall, was led by senior 2-time All-Ohio Athletic Conference guard/ forward Amanda Schroeder (Columbus Grove) scored a team-high 15 points. Her 15 markers now gives her 1,017 career points and moves her into the Top-10 all-time in school history. Today, she surpassed both Kim Luthman (1997-2001), who had 1,002 points and Jen Nance (1997-2001), who had 1,106 points. Unfortunately, Schroeder was the only B-W player in double digits. For Hope, now 3-0 overall, and in addition to Snikkers, junior guard Maddie Burnett had 12 points.
In the first half, B-W jumped out to a 3-2 lead at the 19:33 mark when Schroeder buried a three-pointer. Hope then went on a 8-0 run to take a 10-3 advantage at the 16:33 mark when senior forward Erika Bruinsma made a jump shot.
The Yellow Jackets then outscored the Dutch 8-4 to close to within 14-11 with 12:04 left in the stanza when Schroeder made a jump shot. Hope then went on a 15-7 run to build its lead at 29-18 with 5:00 left when Snikkers made one-of-two foul shots. Hope's lead grew to 17 points, at 37-20, with 1:10 left before the intermission when junior guard Maddie Burnett canned a three-pointer. The score remained 37-20 in Hope's favor at halftime.
In the second half, Hope built its largest lead of the game at 19 points when Bruinsma canned a pair of foul shots at the 18:19 mark for a 41-22 advantage. B-W battled right back and cut the Dutch lead to 12 points at 43-31 with 15:14 left in the game when senior guard Ali Stack (Vermilion/ Firelands) canned a pair of foul shots of her own.
Undaunted, the Dutch scored the next seven points to rebuild their lead back to 19 points, at 50-31, with 13:37 left when Burnett canned a jumper. Hope's lead grew to as many as 27 points, at 72-45, with 1:31 left when sophomore forward Ashley Bauman made a jump shot. Schroeder moved into the Top-10 all-time Yellow Jacket scorers at the 9:55 mark when she canned a pair of foul shots.
Schroeder and sophomore guard Olivia Frech (Bucyrus/Colonel Crawford) were both named to the All-Tournament team.
The Yellow Jackets return to action on Tuesday, Nov. 23 when they travel to University Circle to play Cleveland cross-town and non-legaue rival Case Western Reserve University in Horsburgh Gymnasium at 7:00 p.m.
Media and fans can listen LIVE to all Yellow Jacket men's and women's basketball games on campus radio station WBWC, 88.3 FM and via the Internet at www.wbwc.com.
In addition, two Yellow Jacket women's and men's basketball doubleheaders will be telecast on SportsTime Ohio this winter. The games are the January 29, 2011 twinbill versus Wilmington College and the Third Annual "Take a Kid to the Game" Day doubleheader versus Ohio Northern University on February 19, 2011.
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