CMS Women's Basketball Breaks Through with Dominant 74-58 Win over Cabrini
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | T | |
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Cabrini (2-5) | 18 | 14 | 13 | 13 | 58 |
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Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (2-3) | 20 | 25 | 17 | 12 | 74 |
CLAREMONT, Calif. - Ariana Dalia had 18 points and Mary Markaryan added a double-double off the bench with 16 points and 11 rebounds as the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps women's basketball team took control of the game in the first half and captured a 74-58 win over Cabrini on the second day of the David Wells Classic at Pomona-Pitzer's Voelkel Gymnasium.
The win improves the Athenas to 2-3 on the season, as they shook off a tight 65-61 loss to Augsburg on Friday on the first day of the David Wells Classic with their most complete performance of the young season. Cabrini, meanwhile, slips to 2-5 with the loss.
CMS asserted itself offensively in the first half, taking a 45-32 lead into the break, scoring 25 points in the second quarter alone. Markaryan had eight points in the second quarter and Jacey Carter had six on back-to-back three-pointers 33 seconds apart which turned a 28-25 lead into a 34-25 advantage with 4:53 left in the half. Renee Chong added a three-pointer to stretch the lead to 45-29 before Cabrini ended the half with their own three to cut it to 13.
The Cavaliers got the lead back into single digits at 52-43 midway through the third, but Ava Grey stopped the momentum with a big three-pointer, and Chong and Markaryan followed with layups to make it a momentum-changing 7-0 run.
Cabrini again tried to claw back in the fourth, getting the lead down to 10 at 62-52. Markaryan answered with two foul shots, and Daria had a layup to push it to 13, and the CMS defense held on down the stretch, allowing just three points over the final four minutes.
Chong finished with 10 points off the bench for the Athenas, while Carter had nine points on 3-4 shooting from beyond the arc. As a team, CMS turned the ball over only nine times on the day, with Grey, Chong, Carter and Kayla Ishibashi all having none while dividing up the primary ballhandling duties.
The Athenas will be back in action on Wednesday when they travel to Pomona-Pitzer for their SCIAC opener at 7 p.m.