Lancers Ram Through the Silverswords

Saturday, December 2

Honolulu, Hawaii

7:30 PM

California Baptist University

1-04-4/ PacWest

Chaminade

0-20-3/ PacWest

Team	1	2	3	4	F
California Baptist	26	18	30	16	90
Chaminade	8	19	28	29	84

Photo by: Jacob Gonzalez

Lancers Ram Through the Silverswords

12/3/2017 12:27:00 AM | Women's Basketball

Box Score

By: Sammi Wellman, Director of Sports Information

HONOLULU — After having to wait to open PacWest action later than everyone else in the conference, California Baptist University came out fired up and grabbed a 90-84 victory over Chaminade Saturday night.

The Lancers improve to 4-4 on the year, 1-0 in conference, while the Silverswords drop to 0-3 overall and 0-2 in the PacWest.

Lexy Ram had a stellar night, finishing with a career-high 25 points on 7-of-13 shooting. Emma Meriggioli followed with 16 points (5-for-11), while Ane Olaeta (6-for-15) and Tori Mitchell (6-for-9) rounded out the Lancers in double figures with 14 and 13 points, respectively.

Emily Schmidt led CBU's efforts off the glass, finishing with nine rebounds.

In the first quarter, the Lancers seemed unstoppable and grabbed a 26-8 lead after the first 10 minutes. CBU scored 10 points before Chaminade could find a bucket, with Meriggioli knocking down two threes and Olaeta driving in four other points in the spurt.

The Silverswords cut the score to 19-8, with two minutes left in the quarter, but CBU closed the quarter on a 7-0 run to hold an 18-point lead at the break.

Momentum stayed in CBU's favor as the run turned into a 14-0 run as Mitchell sparked a 7-0 spurt to open the second. Olaeta and Merrigioli also got in on the action to put CBU up 33-8.

Chaminade managed to chip the lead down to 17 points, 44-27, going into halftime, but CBU went into the break shooting at a 54.8 clip.

The Silverswords woke up in the second half and made things interesting in the fourth quarter, cutting the margin down into single digits with less than a minute to play, 86-78.

Ram drew two fouls to keep the Lancers in front, but Chaminade hit a three with four seconds left to keep their dreams of their first win of the season alive.

The Silverswords fouled to try to get the ball back, but Ram made her free throw to seal the 90-84 victory for the Lancers.

CBU returns home to host Point Loma on Saturday at 5:00 p.m.