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Amy FIsher
Amy Fisher
63
Winner Union College UNIONW 11-3,6-1 Liberty
61
Vassar College VCWBB 3-10,1-3 Liberty
Winner
Union College UNIONW
11-3,6-1 Liberty
63
Final
61
Vassar College VCWBB
3-10,1-3 Liberty
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 F
Union College UNIONW 11 17 24 11 63
Vassar College VCWBB 16 12 18 15 61

Game Recap: Women's Basketball |

Fisher's career high 20 leads 63-61 win at Vassar

POUGHKEEPSIE, NY -- Amy Fisher scored a season and game high 20 points with five treys, while guard Natalie Leone added 10 points with as the Union women's basektball team defeated Vassar, 63-61 Saturday. The Dutchwomen are now 6-1 in the league and 11-3 overall.

Union shot 22-of-49 (45 percent) from the floor and 8-of-14 (57 percent) from three. 

Colleen O'Connell poured in a season-high 19 points for Vassar, and also contributed on the defensive end, grabbing one shy of her season-high seven rebounds. O'Connell was one of two Brewers to score in double-figures, as Caitlin Drakeley added 12.

The Brewers never trailed by more than two points in the first half, which featured four ties and five lead changes.

After Rosenthal's coast-to-coast play, the Dutchwomen took the lead before the Brewers scored the next seven points to make it 11-5 with 3:59 to go in the first quarter.

Nicole Teta hit both baskets from beyond the arc in the first quarter, including a trey that capped the Brewers' 10-2 run, to lead the Brewers with six points in the first quarter.

Drakeley and O'Connell combined to score 10 of the Brewers' 12 second-quarter points.

The game was knotted at 28-all during halftime, but Union drained three triples as part of a 17-9 surge to start the third quarter.

Rosenthal hit the and-1 to make it a one-possession ballgame with 59 seconds to play, but Dutchwoman Erin Lyons was fouled and made both from the line to put Union ahead 57-62 with 10.8 seconds remaining.

Then with eight seconds on the clock, O'Connell drew the foul and made two-of-three from the charity stripe, cutting the deficit to 62-59. Rosenthal's layup with two seconds left put Vassar within one, 62-61, but the Brewers wouldn't get any closer, as Fisher hit one from the line with a second remaining.
 
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