MIDDLEBURY, Vt.— Clare Driscoll confidently sank three free throws with less than one second to play to give the Skidmore College women's basketball team a dramatic 68-66 win over previously unbeaten Middlebury College.
 
The Thoroughbreds are off to a 4-0 start, the best opening since 2011. The Panthers are 2-1.
 
The teams are 6-6 over the past 12 years, but it's the first Skidmore win at Pepin Gym since the 1985-86 season.
 
Julia Blanck compiled another double/double with 23 points and 14 rebounds. Kate McCarney added 19 points and four assists, going 4-5 from three-point range. Driscoll finished with 12 points and six rebounds.
 
Alexa Mustafaj led four Panthers in double figures with 19 points.
 
The game featured 19 lead changes and six ties. Middlebury started to pull away at the start of the fourth quarter when Mustafaj hit a jumper for a 52-45 lead. The Thoroughbreds responded with a 10-4 run to cut it to 56-55 with 5:25 to play. McCarney had a three to complete the rally. The game stayed within one possession until the Panthers scratched out a 64-60 lead on a pair of free throws with 44 seconds left.
 
Skidmore tallied the next five points, capped on a three by McCarney for a 65-64 edge. Following a Panther timeout, Augusta Dixon hit a jumper for Middlebury with 1.8 seconds left. After a Thoroughbred timeout advanced the ball, Driscoll took the inbound pass, worked around a screen at the top of the key and was fouled with 0.1 seconds on the clock. before knocking down all three attempts for the final 68-66 margin.
 
The Thoroughbreds look to make it a perfect 3-0 against NESCAC teams when they host Wesleyan University on Tuesday at 5:30 p.m.