With its win, BW is 22-6 overall, advances to the Sectional Round next weekend, March 14-15, and will play undefeated and 29-0 Farleigh Dickinson University-Florham (N.J.) next Friday at a site and time to be determined by the NCAA Committee. The last time BW visited the "Sweet 16" was in 2006 when it won the Great Lakes Regional at BW and then beat Williams (Mass.) College in the "Sweet 16" and then lost to host Scranton (Pa.) 

BW is playing in its 12th NCAA Division III women's basketball tournament in the 24 years that Cheri Harrer (488-178) has coached the team. The Yellow Jackets advanced to the national tourney as an at-large selection and regular season co-champions of the OAC. The Jackets advanced to the second round by defeating Lebanon Valley (Pa.) College, 66-48, in the first round last night. York advanced by beating LaRoche (Pa.) College, 74-52, and ends its season at 26-3 overall.

In addition to Mangas for BW, sophomore guard Alissa Munro (Mansfield/ Lexington) came off the bench to can three three-pointers and score 13 points and All-OAC forward Audrey Smolik (Strongsville) had 12 points.  Sophomore backup center Sam Hamar (Galion) grabbed a team-high nine rebounds. York was led by senior forward Brittany Hicks with a game-high 30 points, including 25 of her team's 34 in the first half, and a game-high 10 rebounds for her 42nd career double-double.

BW scored first and took a 2-0 lead at 19:06 when Lexi Rohrbach (Tiffin/Columbian) drove to the basket and scored. The Spartans then utilized eight points by Hicks in a 10-3 run to take a 10-5 lead at 16:39 whenshe scored,was fouled and completed the three-point play.  BW scored five straight points on a three-pointer by Munro at 16:27 and a rebound basket by Hamar at 14:57 to tie it at 10-10.

BW regained the lead at 11-10 when Rohrbach made one of two foul shots at 12:43. The Jackets kept the run going and built a 19-14 lead at 10:53 when Munro cammed her second trey of the game.  After BW gained its largest lead of the half at 23-17 at 5:34 following two Mangas free throws, York or more precisely Hicks, scored seven straight points to gain at 24-23 lead at 3:39 when she scored, was fouled and completed the three-point play.

It was tied at 26-26 and 31-31 before York grabbed a 34-31 advantage when senior forward Kristen Haley, who had 13 points, made a layup 33 seconds before intermission. A Smolik charity toss for BW with six seconds left cut the Spartan lead to 34-32 at halftime.

BW scored the first seven points of the second half to take a 39-34 lead at 16:28 when sophomore guard Janaya Feater (Akron/ Archbishop Hoban) drove to the basket and made a short jumper in traffic.  Following two York foul shots at 16:15, the lead grew to a game-high six when Munro canned her third triple on a fastbreak at 15:28.

The lead was six at 48-42 at 10:12 when Munro made two foul shots and at 8:44 when freshman guard Sydney Clark (Parma/ Lake Ridge Academy) canned a trey.  The lead grew to eight on two occassions with the last at 57-49 at 5:00 when Mangas hit  jumper in the lane.

After a York foul shot, the lead was nine at 59-50 when Munro canned a jumper at 4:38 and was 11 twice with the last at 63-52 when Mangas nailed another jumper at 3:13.  BW continued to pull away after that point as it heads to its fifth "Sweet 16" in Cheri Harrer's career as senior three-time All-OAC forward Jessica Lairson (Louisville) made two foul shots and now has 1,117 career points to make it 65-52 and a Mangas foul shot made it 66-52.

The winner of next Saturday's Sectional Championship Game advances to the NCAA Division III Final Four at the University of Wisconsin-Steven's Point from Match 21-22.

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