Canton, NY – A 10-minute lull without a field goal put the Clarkson University Women's Basketball team in a hole from which it could not recover, as the Golden Knights dropped a 74-47 Liberty League contest to St. Lawrence University on Tuesday evening.

The Golden Knights fell to 7-10 overall and 4-8 in Liberty League contests, while St. Lawrence moved to 10-7 and 7-5. Clarkson returns home for a four-game stretch, beginning this Friday when the team hosts RIT at Alumni Gymnasium.

Clarkson got off to a solid start in the first quarter, taking the lead on a Veronica Tache 3-pointer and maintaining a modest edge when Bella Doyle converted in the lane at 4:52 to make the score 11-10. Over the next two and a half minutes, however, the Saints went on an 8-0 run, and Clarkson finished off the period trailing by five, 20-15.

Clarkson narrowed the gap to three on two occasions early in the next quarter, with the second coming on a free throw line jumper by Cassidy Dumont at the 8:00 mark, putting the score at 22-19. Unfortunately, the Knights would get only three more points in the period as the team shot 0-for-14 over the remaining eight minutes, and themselves down by 15 at the break.

The Knights snapped out of their doldrums when Dumont hit a layup at the 7:36 mark in the third, ending the stretch of 10-plus minutes without a basket, and the team rallied to within 12. Down by 13 after an Elaina Porter put the score at 45-32, the Knights found their recovery effort to be for naught, as St. Lawrence scored the next eight points and finished off the third quarter up by 20.

At the start of the fourth, Clarkson would trim the margin to 16, but St. Lawrence quickly return the lead to 20-plus points and ended up with a 27-point victory.

Elaina Porter led the Knights with 13 points on 5-for-11 shooting while also adding in five rebounds and three steals. Bella Doyle tossed in 12 points on 4-for-9 shooting from the floor and 4-for-4 from the line and snagged eight rebounds.

For St. Lawrence, Olivia Barringer had a double-double in just 16 minutes of play, scoring 13 points with 12 rebounds, shooting 6-for-7 from the floor. Olivia Middleton also had 13 points on a 6-for-10 effort from the field. Overall, 13 different players scored a point for St. Lawrence.