CHADRON, Neb. – January 2, 2015 – Junior forward Mary Brinton scored a game high 21 points Friday night to lead the Fort Lewis College women's basketball team to a 77-59 road win against Chadron State College at Chicoine Center.
 
The win improves the Skyhawks record to 6-4 overall and 3-3 in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference.  The Eagles drop to 1-10 overall and 1-6 in league games.
 
"We played pretty well," said Fort Lewis College head women's basketball coach Jason Flores.  "Obviously playing after a long trip and a long break we're a little worried but our team came back to a good place.  They came back ready to go and in shape.  We had six practices heading into this game, which kind of carried us through.  We were spread out offensively across the board.  We took care of the ball pretty well in the second half.  We got a lot of good shots off of good passing.  It was overall a good team win which is important, especially heading into tomorrow.  Black Hills is a good team and a really good environment.  It's going to be a fun game to play in."
 
Both teams exchanged score leads throughout the first 10 minutes of the game but the Skyhawks took a lead at 10:22 in the first half and would lead the rest of the game. 
 
Brinton netted 7-of-10 field goals and 7-of-10 free throws for a season high 21 points.  She added a team high eight rebounds and added one blocked shot.   Kaile Magazzeni made 3-of-9 field goals and 4-of-6 free throws for 10 points.  Skylyn Webb was near perfect from the floor, hitting 4-of-5 field goals as part of her nine points.  Webb also pulled down six rebounds and dished out two assists. 
 
Dallas Dickerson and Michelle Turner both came off the bench to score nine and eight points, respectively.  Simone Ruedin also came off the bench to tally three rebounds, three points and three assists.  Kate Bayes contributed four points, six rebounds, one assist and one steal.
 
The Skyhawks led for nearly 34 minutes of the game.  They tallied 24 points off of the Eagles 24 turnovers.  FLC outscored Chadron State in the paint (24-22), fast break points (6-0), and FLC's bench tallied 28 points to the Eagles 20 bench points.
 
Fort Lewis made a season high 27 free throws after attempting 35 (77.1 percent).  They shot 39.3 percent from the floor (22-of-56) and netted 6-of-15 from long range (40 percent).
 
Maka Daysh led the Eagles with 11 points and eight rebounds.
 
Fort Lewis will travel to Spearfish, S.D. to play Black Hills State University Saturday afternoon at 4 p.m.