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No. 20 Women’s Basketball Holds off Rochester (N.Y.), Wins Chuck Resler Tournament

Photo Courtesy of Kevin Wilker '26
Photo Courtesy of Kevin Wilker '26

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.