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PORT HURON, Mich.---The Bay College Norse women's basketball team wrapped up play at the Thumbcoast Tip-Off Classic with a 75-63 loss to the host St. Clair County Community College Skippers on Saturday at the SC4 Fieldhouse in Port Huron.
It was the seventh place game in the eight-team tournament between two teams looking for their first wins of the season. Bay was 0-4 coming in, and SC4 came in at 0-5.
The Norse fell behind, 20-5, in the first quarter, and rallied multiple times to within two possessions, but could not get over the hump in any of those rallies.
Bay trailed, 22-13, after the first quarter, and was behind, 40-28, at halftime.
The Skippers stretched their lead to 48-33 in the third quarter, but the Norse put on a major push in the third quarter. Kennedy Robinson and Olivia Kelly Taylor both scored on run-outs to bring the Norse to within 54-47 with 27 seconds left in the third quarter.
St. Clair got a big triple from Danielle Smoots-Green to make it 57-47, but early in the fourth quarter, the Norse closed to within 57-51 with a pair of baskets by Jaiden Hall. After a SC4 free throw, Kelly Taylor scored from underneath the basket to make it a 58-53 game. But every time the Norse made a push, the Skippers made a triple.
Autumn Pernell knocked down a triple for the Skippers to set the score at 61-53. Alivia LeBrun answered for the Norse with a Alivia LeBurn long jumper, and it was a 61-56 game with 5:41 left on the clock.
The Norse had two chances to get even closer, but could not get the big bucket, and the Skippers put the game away with eleven straight points to put the score at 72-56.
St. Clair got a monster game from center Amiyah Chester, who had a double-double with 16 points and 22 rebounds. Smoots-Green nailed six triples and had 20 points. Autumn Pernell added 15 points. SC4 made eleven triples in the game.
Bay College was led in scoring by Kelly Taylor with 16 points, and Kennedy Robinson contributed 15 points. Robinson also had seven rebounds and dished out six assists. And Jaiden Hall had a double-double with 12 points and eleven rebounds.
And so Bay ends up losing all three games at the tournament, and will be on the road again next Saturday against Lake Region College (N.D.) in St. Paul, Minn. The game starts at 2:00 ET and it will be broadcast live on Maverick 106.3 FM across the U.P.
