PROVIDENCE, R.I. - January 10, 2019 - The Colby-Sawyer women's basketball team earned a 67-52 Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) road win at Johnson & Wales on Thursday evening. 

Colby-Sawyer improves to 10-4 overall and 2-0 in the GNAC. The Chargers will wrap up a busy week with a 2 p.m. GNAC contest on Saturday at Lasell. JWU drops to 2-13 overall and 1-1 in conference action. The Wildcats travel to Rivier next Thursday. 

Colby-Sawyer's Tianna Sugars (Oxford, Maine) led all players with 18 points on 5-of-6 shooting and 8-of-12 from the free throw line. She added eight rebounds and five assists. Lexie Hamilton (Sunapee, N.H.) finished with 16 points, seven rebounds and seven assists. Mackenzie Buzzell (Lovell, Maine) was the third Charger to reach double figures with 14 points. Kristen Donaghey (Franklin, Mass.) and Tanisha Clark (Bridgeport, Conn.) each grabbed nine rebounds. 

JWU received 12 points from Tiondra Hands and Britney Gallagher. Marissa Cottrell added seven points and a team best nine rebounds. 

The first half was a tale of two quarters as Colby-Sawyer was clicking on the offensive end in the first and JWU did the same in the second.

The Chargers began with a 10-3 run, capped by a Hamilton three-pointer, three minutes into the game. A Donaghey reverse layup, with less than three minutes to go in the frame, put Colby-Sawyer in front 21-9. After a Gallagher trey brought the Wildcats to 21-12, Colby-Sawyer ended the quarter with a Hamilton bucket and two Riley Corrigan free throws to take a 25-12 lead after one. Colby-Sawyer was 10-of-15 from the floor in the first 10 minutes. 

JWU then owned the second quarter by outscoring the Chargers 20-8 and holding the visitors to three made field goals. The Wildcats scored the first seven points of the second to pull within six, 25-19, before Colby-Sawyer stopped the run with a Sugars free throw. The home team continued the comeback and came within a pair after a traditional three-point play from Kayla Walsh made the score 26-24 Chargers. With 2:35 left, Buzzell converted a layup to put Colby-Sawyer back on top by seven, 33-26. JWU then received a pair of treys from Tiondra Hands to cut the deficit to 33-32 heading into halftime. 

Colby-Sawyer regained control in the third quarter by a score of 18-9. The Chargers held a 42-37 lead midway through the frame after a Hamilton three-pointer. The lead ballooned to 10 when Tanisha Clark put home a layup to make the score 48-38 with less than three minutes to play. The lead would hold for the remainder of the third and the Chargers would take a 51-41 lead into the fourth. 

The Chargers held a lead for the entirety of the fourth despite making just one field goal in the frame. That was due to JWU making the Chargers convert at the free throw line. Colby-Sawyer made 14 in the quarter to outscore the Wildcats 16-11 and win 67-52. 

Colby-Sawyer shot 44.9% and outrebounded JWU 49-36. The Wildcats shot 27.5%. 

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