WASHINGTON - The American University women's basketball team dropped to the hot hand of Colgate on Saturday, 74-60.

BY THE NUMBERS

• Sophomore Emily Johns paced the Eagles for the second consecutive game, scoring 16 to just miss tying her career-high from Tuesday's win over Lafayette. 
• Senior Taylor Brown also closed in double-figures with 14 points while senior Jade Edwards and freshman Bailey Garbee led on the boards with five rebounds each. Edwards also pitched in a team-high six assists.
• The Raiders were led by a 23-point performance from Alexa Brodie. Taylor Golembiewski added 15 and Tiasia McMillan a dozen. All three also led on the boards with six rebounds each.
• Colgate shot a season-high 52.7 percent (29-55) from the floor and went 12-for-14 from the line while the Eagles hit just under their average with 41.0 (25-61) from the field.
• American led in the paint, 40-38, in second chance points, 10-6, and points off the bench, 22-4, but Colgate added 24 points off AU's 17 turnovers while the Eagles picked up 16 from Colgate's 18 miscues.

HOW IT HAPPENED

• American picked up a 6-4 lead early but a jumper from Colgate's Brodie sparked the Raiders' offense and sent them on an 8-2 run, including six from Brodie herself, to take a four-point lead with four minutes left.
• Colgate picked up as much as a five-point lead, once again off a bucket from Brodie, but a pair of free throws from Maddie Doring and a made trey from Johns tied the game at 8-8 by the end of the first quarter.
• The Eagles struggled to find a stop in the second quarter as Colgate steadily pulled away with an opening 12-2 run to widen the gap to double-figures at 28-18 within the first four minutes of the stanza.
• A quick four points from Johns brought the Eagles back within six but Colgate capitalized off back-to-back AU turnovers and rebuilt the 10-point cushion.
• Once again AU closed strong, though, posting six of the final eight points to make it a six-point game at the break, 36-30.
• The Eagles hovered around the six-point deficit throughout the third quarter, cutting to within three on a couple of occasions after buckets from Stack and Johns. But struggles on the defensive end continued to haunt the squad as Colgate held onto its six-point lead at 51-45 by the end of the quarter.
• Colgate shot lights out in the fourth quarter, hitting 9 of 13 in the final 10 minutes, including a 9-0 run to start the quarter. 
• American cut the lead back down to single-digits briefly, hitting an 8-0 run behind six points from Fisher coming out of a timeout. But they couldn't maintain the run, putting up only one field goal in the final two minutes as Colgate added 10 more to close the game.

NEXT UP
American will be back home next week, hosting Bucknell on Wednesday and Boston University on Saturday.

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