BEREA, OHIO  -- Freshman guard Audrey Smolik (Strongsville) scored a career-high 14 points as the Baldwin-Wallace College women's basketball team defeated cross-town rival Case Western Reserve University, 69-64, tonight (Tuesday, November  22, 2011) in the Ursprung Gymnasium inside the Lou Higgins Center.  

With the victory, the Yellow Jackets improved to 3-1 on the season and Case fell to 2-2. 

In addition to Smolik,  sophomore  guard Jessica Lairson (Louisville) scored 13 points and junior forward Nancy Coulter (Washington Courthouse/Miami Trace) added a season-best 11 points.  Senior forward Catherine Spisak (Sandusky/St. Mary's Central Catholic) grabbed a game-high 11 rebounds and added four points.  The Spartans were led by Evy Iacono with a game-high 21 points.   

B-W opened the scoring on a layup by Coulter  off the assist from Spisak  at the 19:20 mark.

Case would take the lead (4-2) on a pair of jumpers by Erin Hollinger and Marissa Miles at 17:42. 

The Yellow Jackets would go on a 5-2 run as junior wing Jessica Carpenter (North Canton/Hoover) would first hit a three-pointer and Smolik connected on a long range jumper at 16:18.

After exchanging basket for the next three minutes, the Spartans would tie the game (11-11) for the second time as Destinee Henton would split a pair of free throws with 13:04 remaining.

B-W would close out the half outscoring the Spartans 25-17 over the final seven minutes to take a 36-28 lead at the intermission. 

Case would open the second half on a 10-6 run to cut the lead to four points (46-42) on a jumper by Brooke Orcutt at the 15:04 mark.  The Spartans would cut the lead down to two points (52-50) when Emily Mueller would score on a layup at 11:21.

The Yellow Jackets would then go on a 7-2 run to increase their lead back to seven points (59-52) that was capped off by a pair of free throws by Smolik at 8:30. 

Undaunted, Case would outscore B-W 12-10 over the remainder of the game but could come only as close as three points on two occasions with the last coming on a layup by Iacono with three seconds remaining.

The Yellow Jackets are idle until after the Thanksgiving break.  B-W will next play on Wednesday, November 30 when it will travel to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to take on Carnegie Mellon University in a non-conference game in Skibo Gymnasium at 7:30 p.m.   The next home game is on Wednesday, December 7 when the Yellow Jackets play host to Heidelberg University in an Ohio Athletic Conference game in the Ursprung Gymnasium at 7:30 p.m.

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