Waltham, Mass. - The visiting Trinity College Bantams used a 12-2 run midway through the second half to pull away for a 71-57 women's basketball victory over the Brandeis University Judges in the Gosman Athletic Center this afternoon.  Trinity improves to 5-5 and Brandeis drops to 5-5.

Trinity was paced by senior forward Hannah Brickley (Melrose, Mass.), who scored a game-high 25 points. She hit 7-of-17 from the floor and 11-of-13 from the line. Classmate Taylor Murtaugh (New York, N.Y.) added 13 points. Brickley and Murtaugh tied for game-high honors with nine rebounds, helping the Bantams' to a 44-32 rebounding edge. Six of Murtaugh's caroms came on the offensive glass, helping the visitors outpace the Judges in second-chance points, 19-9 as well. Trinity also outscored Brandeis from the free-throw line, 22-7.

The Judges had two players score in double figures, with senior Nicolina Vitale (Clinton, Mich.) tallying 14 points on 6-of-10 shooting with two free throws, and classmate Janelle Rodriguez (Peabody, Mass.) adding 10 on 4-of-11 with a trifecta and a foul shot. Senior Kasey Dean (Southbury, Conn.) had a fine all-around game, with eight points, and team-highs of six rebounds and five assists, which was matched by Rodriguez.

The first half was a back-and-forth affair that featured four ties and six lead changes. Neither team led by more than six points in the first 20 minutes. Brandeis was head, 29-27, with just over three minutes to go in the stanza after a lay-up by sophomore guard Samantha Mancinelli (Durham, Conn.). Trinity answered by scoring eight of the last nine points, with six coming from Brickley, whose lay-in with 54 seconds remaining gave the Bantams a 35-30 lead at the break. Brickley finished with 13 first-half points.

After Murtaugh scored the first four points of the second half, the visitors owned a 39-30 lead less than 90 seconds in. Brandeis responded by holding their foes to just one bucket over the next eight minutes. The Judges forced four turnovers in a 14-4 run in which five different players recorded points. They claimed their first lead of the second half, 44-43, with 11:43 on the clock.  Trinity answered on its next possession, as sophomore guard Alexa Menard (Wallingfor, Conn.) hit a three-pointer, the Bantams' first of the game. That bucket kicked off a 12-2 run over the next two minutes, as Brickley hit two free throws and a lay-up, and Menard added another trifecta. Junior Taylor Higgins' (Merrick, N.Y.) driving lay-up at the 9:13 mark gave the visitors a 55-46 lead.

Brandeis looked to get closer on a Dean steal and lay-up that cut the lead to seven, 55-48, with just under nine minutes remaining, but Brickley answered with two more foul shots and Higgins connected from downtown to push the lead to 12 points. The Bantams connected on 8-of-14 from the line down the stretch and got two offensive rebounds on misses from the charity stripe to close out the game.