NORTHFIELD, Minn. – Hot 3-point shooting by the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire during the middle portion of the contest proved to be the difference as the Carleton College women's basketball team absorbed a 75-50 defeat. Katie Chavez (Sr./Westminster, Colo./Holy Family) was the game's leading scorer, totaling 18 points for the Knights to go along with her team-best three assists.
 
Carleton (2-2) led 11-9 before Wisconsin Eau-Claire's (2-3) Maizie Deihl drained a triple as the first quarter expired. That sparked the Blugolds on a 37-18 run that covered the entire second quarter and stretched into the start of the third quarter.
 
After Deihl played beat the buzzer in the first quarter, UW-Eau Claire went 5-for-5 from beyond the arc during the second quarter, and Deihl buried the Blugolds' first 3-point attempt of the third quarter to cap the team's streak of seven consecutive makes from long range.
 
Leading 41-29 at halftime, UW-Eau Claire out-scored the Knights 20-7 in the third quarter before the team's played even over the final 10 minutes.
 
Hallee Hoeppner scored 11 of her team-high 14 points during the visitor's second quarter rally. Deihl and Katie Essen also finished in double figures for UW-Eau Claire as they tallied 12 and 11 points, respectively.
 
Chavez was Carleton's only player in double figures. Samantha Cooke (Sr./St. Louis, Mo./Incarnate Word Academy), Anna Hughes (Jr./Glenview, Ill./New Trier), and Jill Yanai (So./Glendale, Calif./Glendale) each tallied eight points for the Knights.
 
UW-Eau Claire shot 48 percent overall and finished 9-for-21 (43 percent) from 3-point range. Carleton connected at a 36 percent clip but was only 4-of-21 (19 percent) from beyond the arc.
 
UP NEXT FOR THE KNIGHTS: Carleton hosts No. 9-ranked University of St. Thomas for a 7 p.m. tipoff on Tuesday, Nov. 26. Live video and stats will be available via athletics.carleton.edu.