Box Score
The 16th-ranked Bearcats limited Chatham to just 27 percent from the field and forced 30 turnovers, avenging their first loss of the season by defeating the Cougars 58-41 in Presidents' Athletic Conference action at the Carey Center.
Brittany Sedlock scored 19 points and Emily Fenton 18 for the Bearcats, while senior Maria Baroffio became the 22nd player in program history to eclipse 1,000 career points, doing so on a three-pointer at the 16:36 mark of the first half.
The game was close in the early stages, but with the score 8-6 SVC, the Bearcats got hot from the outside, as threes from Fenton and Melissa Mansur pushed SVC ahead 18-10 at the 10-minute mark. Chatham, however, kept the game close in the closing stages of the first half, eventually pulling to within four, 28-24, on a pair of Brittany Brown free throws with 2:46 left until the intermission.
Saint Vincent scored the final five points of the half, capped off on a Sedlock jumper with three seconds left, to take a 33-24 advantage into the locker room.
The Bearcats opened the second half strong, using a 10-4 run in the opening four minutes to increase the advantage to 43-28 on Fenton's fourth three of the evening with 15:48 left in regulation. Three minutes later, SVC's Savannah Hardy hit a mid range jumper to make the score 47-32, and the defenses then took over, with the teams combining for just six points over a six minute span, and the Bearcats led 50-35 with 4:50 left to play.
Back-to-back threes from Sedlock and Baroffio with just under three minutes left closed the scoring for Saint Vincent to seal the 17-point win.
Saint Vincent's defense limited the Cougars to just 13 field goals for the game, and totaled 22 steals, led by five from Mansur and four apiece from Baroffio and Devin McGrath.
Chatham (4-6) was led on the scoresheet by Brittany Brown, who scored 12 points, and Kayla Hilko, who bucketed 11. Sedlock and Chatham's Sonija Hoston shared team high rebounding honors with nine apiece.
The victory moved the Bearcats to 7-1 overall, and 3-0 in PAC play, and the team will now have a weeklong layoff before returning to action next Sunday against Wentworth in the two-day Daytona Beach (FL) Shootout.
