SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Down by as many as 16 in the third quarter, the Skidmore College women's basketball team closed to within four of the Bombers in the fourth quarter, but was not able to completed the comeback as Ithaca walked away with a 69-54 Liberty League victory on Saturday afternoon.

• Rachel Carpenter hit a 3-pointer with 4:09 remaining to pull Skidmore (1-5, 0-2 Liberty League) to within four at 57-53.
• The Bombers outscored the Thoroughbreds 12-1 the rest of the way for the 69-54 final.
• Claudia Schneider had 12 points to lead Skidmore on 4-of-6 shooting from the field and a perfect 4-for-4 mark at the free-throw line.
• The Thoroughbreds finished 14-for-254 (58.3 percent) as a team from the line.
• Sara Hastie had nine points and a team-high seven rebounds.
• Sophia Martinez, Madison Meyer, and Jenny Shine all had seven points for Skidmore. Martinez and Meyer had three steals each, while Shine finished with a pair of blocks.
• Ruby Krop blocked three shots.
• Natalie Tucker paced three Ithaca players in the teens with 16 points on 4-of-6 shooting from beyond the arc.
• Madison Gill registered 15 points, while Tori Drevna finished with 13 and eight boards.
• Also for Ithaca, Grace McNamara had eight points and five steals.
• Skidmore ran out to an early five-point lead before the visitors ran off 17 unanswered points for a 21-13 lead after the first quarter. The Bombers shot over 50 percent in the opener.
•  The Thoroughbreds closed to six with 3:35 left in the second quarter on a Shine triple, but Gill answered with a long ball of her own and a Drevna jumper in the final minute gave Ithaca an 11-point halftime lead.
• The visitors stretched their lead to 16 by the middle of quarter three before the Bombers rattled off 12 in a row to get to within four. The Bombers answered with eight of the final 10 points of the period, including a last-second bucket, to lead by 10.
• Both teams scored 24 points in the paint and 17 off the bench and committed 21 turnovers, while Ithaca ended with a 16-8 edge in second-chance points and a 22-15 advantage in points-off-turnovers.

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Skidmore will travel to Vassar on Wednesday for a 5:30 p.m. tip before ending the semester on Thursday night at Wesleyan.