CLAREMONT, Calif. – Concluding its trip to California for the David Wells Classic, the Carleton College women's basketball team dropped a low-scoring affair, 50-44, to the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Colleges Athenas. Addy Huss led the Knights with a career-high 21 points.
 
Huss' 21-point effort was the highest total for a Knight this year. The rookie guard also collected eight rebounds and four assists, both team highs. Fellow newcomers Audrey Whitney and Liesl McCallum added seven points apiece as the rookie class accounted for 38 of the Knights' 44 points in a game played at Voekel Gymnasium on the campus of Pomona College.
 
The Knights (1-5) locked down the Athenas (3-4) in the opening quarter, allowing just four points while limiting C-M-S to 2-of-16 shooting from the floor and an empty 0-for-9 from 3-point range.
 
Carleton led by as much as eight early in the second quarter, but Athenas guard Amanda Kerner canned four 3-pointers to account for all of the hosts' points in the frame and tie the game at 16-16. However, Selma Vangstein finished a layup with 53 seconds to go in the half to give the Knights a two-point advantage going into intermission.
 
The Knights continued to dominate defensively, not allowing their opponents on the scoreboard for six-and-a-half minutes between the end of the second and middle of the third quarters, stretching their lead as large as nine. But the C-M-S offense finally came to life at the end of the stanza, authoring a 13-0 burst. Katie Resendiz hit a pair of free throws at 0:02 in the third to give the Athenas their first lead since being up 2-0 in the first quarter. 
 
The local team had their best shooting quarter in the fourth, and the Knights could never find their rhythm on offense, eventually coming up six points short.
 
The Knights outshot C-M-S, hitting 37.8 percent of their shots overall to the Athenas' 30.5 percent. The difference in the game was on the glass and from range. C-M-S outrebounded Carleton 38-30, including 17 offensive rebounds leading to a 10-5 edge in second-chance points. The Athenas hit 10 three-pointers (10-of-34, 20.4 percent) to Carleton's three (3-of-15, 20.0 percent).
 
Kerner scored a team-high 21 points for the Athenas. Katie Resendiz notched 14 points and grabbed seven rebounds.
 
Up Next for the Knights
Carleton's MIAC campaign tips off at home against the College of St. Scholastica on Wednesday, Dec. 4. That game will be the second of a men's-women's double-header, set to begin at 7:30 p.m.