BEREA, Ohio -- Junior forward Alissa Munro (Mansfield/Lexington) scored a game-high 22 points as the Baldwin Wallace University women's basketball team defeated Buffalo State (N.Y.) University, 83-66, in the final game of the 2014 BW Invitational Tournament in the Rudolph Ursprung Gymnasium inside the Lou Higgins Center.
In addition to Munro for BW (2-1), senior guard Shari Mangas (Leipsic), junior guard Janaya Feaster (Akron/Archbishop Hoban) and sophomore guard Mackenzie Colombo (Strasburg) and all contributed eight points. Sophomore forward Clara Lemmon (Louisville) grabbed a career-high eight rebounds. Buffalo State (2-2) was led by Hillary Kollar and Niasha Houpe each had 13 points. Britnee Perry grabbed a game-high 14 rebounds.
In the first half, the two teams battled back and forth with the game being tied on five separate occasions with the last coming at 22-22 on three-pointer by Hillary Kollar at the 7:12 mark. The Yellow Jackets would outscore the Bengals 15-6 down the stretch and led by as many as 11 points on a fast-break layup by Colombo with 44 seconds remaining in the opening period. BW led 37-28 at the intermission.
In the second half, the Yellow Jackets pushed the lead to as many as 25 points at 61-36 on a pair of free throws by junior guard Allyson Helleis (Rocky River) at the 11:16 mark. Buffalo State responded with a 25-11 run to cut the lead down to just 11 points at 72-61 on triple from Kollar at 4:09. BW would close out the game on an 11-5 run.
The All-Tournament Team was comprised of Most Valuable Player Lauren Hill of Mount St. Joseph along with Alissa Munro and senior All-Ohio Athletic Conference guard Audrey Smolik (Strongsville) of Baldwin Wallace, Hayley Holenka of Bethany (W. Va.), Britnee Perry of Buffalo State and Tara Dennis of Mount St. Joseph.
The Yellow Jackets are back in action on Wednesday, November 26 when it hosts Waynesburg (Pa.) University in a non-conference game at 2 p.m. Fans can follow all of the action live at http://preview.tinyurl.com/bwwaywbb.