Kalamazoo, MI – The Oberlin College women's basketball team scored early and often, closing out their non-conference schedule with a commanding 77-46 win at Kalamazoo College on Wednesday night.
 
The underclass trio of Gina Lombard, Camille Zinaich, and Bryana Woodard accounted for over 58 percent of the team's points on the night. Lombard cashed in four 3-pointers and added eight rebounds and three assists in the win as she finished with 14 points. Zinaich stuffed the stat sheet with 13 points, five helpers, three steals, and matched Lombard with eight boards. Woodard led all scorers with 18 tallies on 9-of-16 shooting in just 18 minutes of work.
 
The Yeowomen opened the game with 11-0 run until a Laila Vincent 3-pointer finally got the Hornets on the board at the 6:57 mark of the first quarter. Later in the frame, Lombard's first long-range strike of the night extend the Oberlin cushion out to 13 but they would ultimately close the opening 10-minute stanza up 10.
 
Oberlin carried a 20-10 lead into the second quarter and would continue to swell the margin from there, holding Kalamazoo to just four points in the second session. A Lombard layup with 6:32 left in the half gave the Yeowomen their first 20-point lead of the night at 32-12 and she would add a triple-hit just 92 seconds later to balloon the lead to 25, which was the eventual halftime advantage at 39-14.
 
The Yeowomen opened the third quarter with a 9-0 spurt to widen the differential out to 34 points at 48-14 and a Rowan Smith finish inside at the 1:57 mark proved to be Oberlin's last points of the period as they closed the frame up 63-25.
 
With the game well in hand in the fourth quarter, the Yeowomen had the opportunity to empty their bench, playing nine reserves in the game. Smith led the bench bunch with eight points, while Taylor Sanchez netted her first-career field goal and Peyton Sinnet made her first appearance of the season.
 
Oberlin held the Hornets to just 24.5 percent shooting (14-of-57) while posting a 41.4 percent (29-of-70) success rate of its own. OC also deposited 15-of-16 (93.8%) charity tosses and won the battle of the boards 53-34.
 
The Yeowomen moved to 14-1 while Kalamazoo fell back to 3-12 on the year.
 
Oberlin returns home to host Wittenberg University in a key conference clash on Saturday afternoon at 1 p.m.