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Rose-Hulman Women's Basketball Remains Undefeated in HCAC in 81-56 Win Over Bluffton
TERRE HAUTE, IND. – The Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology women’s basketball continued the best start in school history with an 81-56 victory over conference foe Bluffton College on Saturday afternoon in the Hulbert Arena. The win brings the Engineers to an 8-1 season mark and 4-0 in the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference. Rose-Hulman remains the only team left undefeated in conference play. Senior Suzy Carlson (State College, Pa.) led the Rose-Hulman offense with a team high 24 points and five assists. Also in the twenties, Rebekah Forsyth (Farmersburg/N. Central) scored 20 points for the Engineers and pulled down 11 rebounds, for her fourth double-double of the year and 50th in her career. Junior Katie Tharp (Linton) brought a third member of the Engineer team to double figures with a 14 point game. Junior Candace Procter (Southfield, Mich./Groves) pitched in a season high five assists and freshman Shayna Banet (Canton, Ga./Woodstock) scored a career high eight points.
Bluffton began the game leading 2-0 on a jumper by Beaver Lindsay Bush, rebounding her own lay-up that had popped out. The Engineers immediately responded 16 seconds later with a Tharp lay-up, tying the game at two a piece. A pair of Bluffton free throws by Angie Lee gave the Beavers a two point lead, but a Carlson 3-point shot gave the Engineers their first lead of the game with 17 minutes left in the first half. A free throw by Bluffton’s Bush gave tied the game back up at five. A jumper by the Engineer’s Forsyth gave Rose-Hulman a two point lead at 7-5, but three more Bluffton free throws by Vicki Auer and Angie Lee gave the Beavers a one point 8-7 lead. A couple more free throws by Auer of the Beavers brought the Bluffton lead to three at 10-7, the largest lead Bluffton would have in the game. A jumper by Tharp and a pair of free throws by Carlson, the defending two-time NCAA statistical free throw champion, gave the Engineers the lead, 11-10. A jumper by Carlson brought the lead to three, 13-10.
A 3-point shot by Bluffton’s Lee tied the game for the fifth and final time with 11 minutes left to play in the first half. Twelve unanswered points by the Engineers with Tharp, Carlson and Forsyth each scoring four points over that span, brought the lead to twelve, 25-13 with six minutes left in the half. The Engineers took a ten point, 34-24 lead into halftime with 15 points being scored at the free throw line in 16 attempts, giving the team a 93.8% free throw percentage for the first half. The Beavers shot 12 for 17 from the free throw line, scoring half of their first half points from the line. Bluffton began the first half with a jumper by Bush to bring the lead down to eight at 34-26. After trading lay-ups by the Engineers’ Forsyth and Bluffton’s Bush kept the lead at eight and a score of 36-28 with 18 minutes left to play. Bluffton Brought the lead down to seven with 13 minutes left on a pair of free throws by Tanya Rickenberg, but that would be the closest the Beavers would get to the Engineer lead. An Engineer lay-up by Banet with a minute left brought Rose-Hulman to a final score of 81-56 and 25 point lead. The Engineers rose to an 8-1 season record, the best start in school history, and 4-0 in the HCAC as Bluffton fell to a 0-8 season mark and 0-3 in the HCAC. Rose-Hulman returns to action as they play host to Earlham College for the first game of the Rose-Hulman Invitational on Friday December 15 at 7 p.m.
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