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BW Women Basketball Cruises to Victory Against Waynesburg (Pa.)

Mackenzie Colombo
Mackenzie Colombo
BEREA, Ohio -- The Baldwin Wallace University women's basketball team cruised to a 74-38 non-conference victory against Waynesburg (Pa.) University in the Rudolph Ursprung Gymnasium inside the Lou Higgins Center.

BW (3-1) had three players score in double figures led by junior forward Alissa Munro (Mansfield/Lexington) with a game-high 14 points. Sophomore point guard Mackenzie Colombo (Strasburg) tallied a career-high tying 11 points and dished out a game-high three assists. Senior All-Ohio Athletic Conference and Academic All-OAC guard Audrey Smolik (Strongsville) recorded her third career double-double with 10 points and a game-high 10 rebounds. Waynesburg (2-2) was led by Addy Knetzer with 12 points.

In the first half, BW opened the game on a 9-0 run when Clara Lemmon (Louisville) scored on a layup at the 17:31 mark. Waynesburg scored its first basket on a jumper by Rebecca Kerr. BW would hold Waynesburg to just nine points in the first half and led 35-9 at the intermission.

In the second half, Waynesburg outscored BW 7-5 in the opening minutes to cut the lead down to 43-16 on a three-pointer by Lauren Blair at 16:37. BW would increase the lead to as many as 41 points on two occasions with the last coming at 70-29 on a jumper by freshman center Megan Schubert (Ayersville) at the 6:33 mark.

BW is back in action on Wednesday, December 3 when it travels to Alliance to open OAC play against the University of Mount Union in the McPherson Academic & Athletic Complex at 7:30 p.m. The next home game is on Saturday, December 13 when the teams hosts Muskingum University for an OAC game in the Ursprung Gymnasium at 3 p.m.