THE BASICS:

- Score: No. 23 Assumption 56, Saint Michael's 54

- Records: Assumption (4-0, 2-0 NE-10) Saint Michael's (1-3, 0-2 NE-10)

- Location: Colchester, Vt. (Ross Sports Center)

- The Lead: On Saturday afternoon, the No. 23 ranked Assumption College women's basketball team improved to a perfect 4-0 overall and 2-0 in league play with a  56-54 road win over Saint Michael's at the Ross Sports Center.

INSIDE THE NUMBERS:

- Junior guard Allison Stoddard (East Lyme, Conn./East Lyme) led all scorers with 21 points to continue her hot start to the regular season. She finished the game 5-for-10 from three-point land, but the Hounds shot just 32.1 percent from the field for the game.

- Junior Kelly Carey (Long Beach, N.Y./Holy Trinity) added 11 points, while senior Ann Marie Idusuyi (Lynn, Mass./St. Mary's) nearly posted a double-double with eight points and seven rebounds.

- For the Purple Knights, Makenzie Burud finished with a 14-point, 13-rebound double-double to go along with a 10-point effort from Megan Gaudreau.

- Defensively, the Hounds forced 17 Saint Michael's turnovers and led by as many as 11 points in the game. Saint Michael's held as much as a four-point lead in the contest.

HOW IT HAPPENED:

- A three by Gaudreau with just over four minutes left gave the Purple Knights a 9-5 edge before the Hounds surged back into the lead. Leading 15-11 after one, the Hounds extended the lead up to 26-15 midway thru the second quarter after a Stoddard three and took an eventual 31-29 edge into the half after a late three from Gaudreau in the final seconds cut the advantage to just two.

- Indira Evora knocked down a three in the fourth to put the Purple Knights ahead by a 45-41 score with just 25 seconds left in the period before the Hounds cut that lead down to two at 45-43 heading to the final quarter of play.

- In a slow-starting fourth quarter, freshman Morgan O'Donnell (Easton, Mass./Ursuline Academy) put the Hounds back in front on a layup with 4:39 remaining and the score at 51-50. A Carey three just over two minutes later pushed the lead back to four, but the hosts hung around and kept within striking distance.

- Burud's layup with 1:04 left cut the Assumption lead to 56-54 and the Purple Knights had a chance in the final minute. Three Saint Michael's chances were off target in the last five seconds as the Hounds remained unbeaten and improved to a perfect 4-0 overall.

UP NEXT:

- The Hounds return to action on Tuesday, November 24th as the Hounds host Bentley University for a 5:30 p.m. start at Laska Gym.

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