Oberlin College Athletics

Wooster, Ohio – After a sluggish start, the Oberlin College women's basketball team flipped the switch and poured it on the College of Wooster Fighting Scots to earn a commanding 88-56 win on Monday night.
 
After posting just a 30.5 percent (11-of-36) success rate in the first half, the Yeowomen shot a blistering 65.7 percent over the final 20 minutes, cashing in 23 of the 35 shots they hoisted while holding the Scots to just 36 points over the final three quarters.
 
A total of 11 Oberlin players scored on the night with Bryana Woodard leading the charge with 17 points to accompany her six rebounds. Senior Sammy Spanier added 13 tallies, five boards, and three assists, while Gina Lombard stuffed the stat sheet with 11 points, six assists, and five rebounds. Kendal McCall rounded out the Yeowomen's double-digit point producers with a career-high 11 points off the bench and she also corralled a career-best eight rebounds in just 16 minutes of work.
 
Alyson Jefferson chipped in nine points, while senior Rowan Smith contributed eight points and eight rebounds in the win. Rookie Camille Zinaich recorded her 13^th double-digit rebounding effort of the season, ripping down 12 boards while adding six points.
 
A Lombard 3-pointer had he Yeowomen out in front 13-5 with just under four minutes left in the opening quarter but a 9-0 Wooster response run over the next two minutes of action gave them the lead. The Yeowomen went ice cold, scoring just three more points the rest of the frame as the Scots carried a 20-16 advantage into the second quarter.
 
As the Yeowomen continued to struggle to convert, the Scots extended their lead out to seven at 26-19 with 7:23 left in the half. However, the visitors would turn up the heat on both ends of the floor, holding the Scots to just two points for the remainder of the period while closing the session on a 13-2 burst. Six different players scored during the run to help the Yeowomen carry a 32-28 cushion into the locker room.
 
The Oberlin momentum continued into the third quarter as they held the Scots scoreless for the first 3:30 following the restart while swelling the lead out to 14 at 42-28. The 10-0 spurt to start the stanza featured six points from Woodard. The Yeowomen did not take their foot off the gas as a McCall layup at the 3:41 mark ballooned the lead out to 19 at 53-34.
 
The Yeowomen ultimately carried a comfortable 60-40 lead into the fourth quarter and would only grow the differential from there as one of three Lombard triple-hits on the night at the 6:59 mark widen the gap to 30, 72-42, to effectively put the game away.
 
Oberlin's size and physicality was too much for the Scots to overcome as the Yeowomen finished with a 59-25 advantage on the glass and out-scored Wooster 54-8 in the paint.
 
The busy week for the Yeowomen (18-3, 11-3 NCAC) will continue Wednesday night at Allegheny at 6 p.m. Oberlin will then closeout the regular season against these same Scots on Saturday afternoon at 2 p.m. inside Philips Gym.