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Kendall Harris '27
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Kendall Harris '27
64
Hamilton HAMILTON 12-13
67
Winner Bates BATES 22-3
Hamilton HAMILTON
12-13
64
Final
67
Bates BATES
22-3
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 OT 1 F
Hamilton HAMILTON 18 16 13 11 6 64
Bates BATES 5 9 24 20 9 67

Game Recap: Women's Basketball | | James McGlynn

Women’s basketball falls in overtime at Bates in NESCAC quarterfinals

Hills ’28 scored a team-high 19 points for the Continentals

LEWISTON, Maine – Bates College's Sarah Hughes scored a game-high 23 points, including 16 in the fourth quarter and overtime, and propelled the second-seeded Bobcats to a 67-64 overtime win against the Hamilton College Continentals in a 2026 NESCAC Women's Basketball Championship quarterfinal inside Bates' Alumni Gym on Saturday, Feb. 21.

Season Update

  • Hamilton (12-13 overall) won two of its final three regular season conference games and earned the seventh seed in the NESCAC championship.
  • Nationally ranked No. 13/17 Bates (22-3) improved to 11-1 at home and advanced to the NESCAC semifinals.

How It Happened

  • Erica Hills '28 scored 10 first quarter points as the Continentals jumped out to an 18-5 lead after 10 minutes of action. Bates shot 2-of-16 from the field in the first, including 0-of-5 from 3-point range. Hamilton scored the first nine points, including a driving layup and a free throw by Kendall Harris '27. Elsa Daulerio converted Bates' first field goal with 3:19 left and made it 12-3. Hills scored Hamilton's final six points of the quarter, and Hughes knocked down a jumper with 50 seconds remaining for her first points.
  • Hamilton relied on a balanced attack in the second, shooting 50% from the field for the second straight frame. Taylor Lambo '26 found Annabelle Semeter '28 for a layup at the left block with 6:55 left, and Harris rattled home a pull-up jumper from the left side at the 6:19 mark that gave Hamilton a 24-9 lead. Semeter converted a heavily contested layup from the right block with 1:47 remaining and extended Hamilton's lead to 32-12.
  • Sophie Spolter scored in the paint during the next Bates possession before Harris found a cutting Hannah Bernstein '28 for a layup with 55 seconds remaining, and the Continentals held a 34-14 lead at the intermission.
  • Bates scored the first five points of the third quarter on a jumper by Hughes and a triple by Ava James and trimmed its deficit to 34-19. The Bobcats collected six of their 18 offensive rebounds in the third and shot 10-of-21 from the field. Back-to-back baskets by Spolter with 4:16 and 3:18 left brought Bates' deficit to single digits at 39-30.
  • Lambo dropped off a pass to Semeter for a layup with 1:31 left that made it 43-32.
  • Bates scored six of the next seven points and trimmed its deficit to 44-38 with 13 seconds remaining.
  • Hills swished a step-back 3-pointer just before the buzzer and gave the Continentals a 47-38 lead heading into the fourth quarter.
  • Bates made a 3-pointer and a layup on its first two possessions of the fourth and made it 47-43 with 9:18 remaining. The Bobcats grabbed their first lead at 51-49 with 5:12 left following a layup by Hughes. Hills scored in the paint at the other end and tied the score at 51-51, and Harris sank a pull-up jumper near the baseline that put Hamilton back in front with 2:55 left.
  • A jumper by Daulerio tied the score at 53-53 with 2:35 left, but Harris scored five straight via a 3-pointer and a tough turn-around jumper, which gave Hamilton a 58-53 advantage and forced a Bates timeout with 50.9 seconds remaining.
  • Hughes sank a 3-pointer out of the timeout, and Daulerio converted a put-back layup with three seconds remaining that tied the score at 58-58 and forced overtime.
  • The Bobcats began the overtime period with a 6-0 run on a jumper by Daulerio and two layups by Hughes that gave them their largest lead at 64-58. Hills and Harris scored on back-to-back possessions and made it 66-64 with 13 seconds left. Hughes sank one free throw and made it a three-point game, and Hamilton missed its final attempt from beyond the arc with under two seconds remaining.
 

Notes

  • Hills tied her season high of 19 points on 7-of-13 shooting from the field.
  • Harris finished with 16 points and five assists.
  • Lambo grabbed a game-high 11 rebounds and dished out a game-high six assists to go along with two blocks in 44 minutes of action. She finished her Hamilton career as the program leader in rebounds with 888, and ranks fourth all-time in points with 1,361.
  • Semeter and Maggie Kernodle '29 added eight and seven points, respectively.
  • Hughes finished with 23 points, nine rebounds, four assists and three steals.
  • Spolter recorded 17 points, four assists and three steals.
  • Daulerio registered 12 points, nine rebounds and three blocks.
  • James also chipped in 12 points as well as four of the Bobcats' 12 steals.
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