SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – First-year Rachel Carpenter buried a go-ahead 3-pointer with 13.6 seconds remaining, but RIT's Ben Kayser-Cochran responded with the game-winning layup with 1.4 seconds left as the visiting Tigers edged the Skidmore women's basketball team, 47-46, in Friday's Liberty League opener.

• Down two, Carpenter's clutch triple from the left elbow pushed the Thoroughbreds ahead by one with under 14 seconds on the clock. She finished with nine points.
• After a timeout and Skidmore foul, Kayser-Cochran secured the inbound and finished high off the glass with the left hand for the decisive basket.
• Skidmore's final heave at the buzzer came up short.
• The contest featured four ties and 11 lead changes—three of the ties and seven of the lead changes came in a tightly contested fourth quarter.
• Sophia Martinez and Madison Meyer paced Skidmore (1-4, 0-1 Liberty League) with 13 points each. Martinez added three rebounds and two assists, while Meyer tallied six boards, two assists, a block, and a pair of steals.
• Ruby Krop recorded a game-high four blocks along with seven rebounds. Claudia Schneider grabbed a team-best 10 rebounds.
• For RIT (4-3, 1-0), Caroline Henderson led all Tiger scorers with 12 points—each coming from beyond the arc.
• Faye Kaplinski contributed seven points and a game-high 14 rebounds.
• Skidmore capitalized on a 12-5 turnover margin to produce a 15-2 advantage in points off miscues. Both teams scored 14 points in the paint, while RIT's bench held an 18-11 edge.
• The Thoroughbreds limited RIT to just two field goals in the opening quarter, registering three blocks and forcing five turnovers, but held only a five-point lead after shooting 4-for-18 from the floor.
• RIT caught fire in the second, going 4-for-5 from deep to take a 20-13 scoring advantage in the period and a two-point lead into halftime.
• Henderson drilled three straight 3-pointers to fuel a 13-2 RIT surge across a three-minute stretch.
• Skidmore answered with seven consecutive points, highlighted by a Meyer 3-pointer to reclaim the lead, before Henderson struck again with her fourth triple of the quarter to give RIT a two-point halftime edge.
• Skidmore built an eight-point cushion midway through the third after scoring the first 10 points of the half. RIT responded with a 9-2 run over the final 4:23 to pull within one. A Martinez driving layup with 1:20 remaining marked Skidmore's only field goal over the final 8:13 of the quarter.
• Neither side led by more than three in the fourth. Sara Hastie split a pair at the line with 1:51 remaining to give Skidmore a one-point lead before Kayser-Cochran connected from deep to put RIT up two, preceding Carpenter's go-ahead 3.

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Skidmore will host Ithaca on Saturday at 2 p.m.