ROCHESTER, N.Y. – The No. 20 nationally rankled Baldwin Wallace University women's basketball team won the Chuck Resler Tournament as it defeated the University of Rochester by a final score of 66-61 in the Louis Alexander Palestra Gymnasium inside the Goergen Athletic Center.
BW (2-0) had three players score in double figures led by junior All-Ohio Athletic Conference and Academic All-OAC guard/fprward Caely Ressler (Napoleon), who was named the Most Valuable Player, as she scored 18 points. Senior guard/forward Sylvie Sonneman (Jamestown/Greenview) and Junior All-OAC and Academic All-OAC guard Emily Irwin (Pickerington/Pataskala Watkins Memorial) each added 12 points. Iwrin was named to the All-Tournament Team. Sonneman added seven rebounds.
Rochester (1-1) had three players score in double figures led by senior guard/forward Abby Gress scored a game-high 19 points and grabbed a game-high nine rebounds. Senior forward Callie McCulley contributed 13 points. Sophomore guard Claire Groenewoud chipped in 12 points.
1st Quarter (BW, 27-10)
- BW shot 64.7 percent from the field
- BW shot 55.6 percent from three-point land
- Rochester shot 75.0 percent from the foul line
2nd Quarter (BW, 40-27)
- Rochester shot 37.5 from the field
- Rochester shot 50.0 from three-point land
- BW shot 50.0 from the foul line
3rd Quarter (Rochester, 45-43)
- Rochester started the quarter on a 12-2 run
- Rochester shot 57.1 percent from the field
- BW shot 8.3 percent from the field
- Rochester shot 33.3 from the three-point land
- Rochester shot 33.3 from the foul line
4th Quarter (BW, 66-61)
- BW shot 41.7 percent from the field
- BW shot 76.0 percent from three-point land
- BW was 6-of-6 from the foul line in the final 47 seconds
BW is back in action on Wednesday, November 15 when it travels to Angola, Indiana for a non-conference game against No. 13 nationally ranked Trine University inside the MTU Center at 7 p.m.