SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – The Skidmore College women's basketball team defeated visiting Clarkson University 66-56 on Saturday afternoon in the annual Big Green Scream game.

• Skidmore finishes the regular season 14-11 overall and 12-6 in the Liberty League. The Thoroughbreds will be the No. 3 seed in next week's tournament and will host Union for a first-round game on Tuesday night.
• Andi Levitz had a breakout game for Skidmore. She scored a season-high 22 points on 6-of-11 shooting from 3-point range.
• Becca Horger, Amelia Medolla, and Madison Meyer all had nine points for Skidmore. Medolla tallied a team-high seven rebounds, while Horger collected three steals.
• After posting 16 steals on Friday, the Thoroughbreds had 17 against the Golden Knights on Saturday. Clarkson turned the ball over 26 times in total. Eighteen of the them were in the first half in a dominant opening 20 minutes for the Thoroughbreds.
• Cassie Davidson, who scored six, had a game-high four steals.
• Raelin Burns led the visitors with 23 points. She also went 6-of-11 from downtown.
• Skidmore capitalized on Clarkson turnovers in the first half, scoring 19 points off the 18 Golden Knight giveaways on the way to a 41-20 halftime lead.
• Clarkson had one field goal over a near-10-minute span that stretched into the final minute of the first half. The Golden Knights were 2-of-11 from the field in the second period, scoring just five points.
• Skidmore extended the lead with a 15-point unanswered run that came to an end with less than a minute remaining in the half.
• The visitors took better care of the ball in the second half resulting in just three Skidmore points off turnovers.
• Clarkson also got hot offensively while Skidmore cooled down. Skidmore, after shooting 55.2 percent in the first half, settled at 19.4 percent over the final 20 minutes while the Golden Knights finished the second half at 40 percent overall, but used the 3-ball to get back into it. Clarkson went 10-of-18 (55.6 percent) from beyond the arc in the second half. The Golden Knights scored 15 unanswered in the fourth right after the Thoroughbreds took their largest lead of the afternoon at 23.
• Before the game, Skidmore honored its six graduating seniors: Emmy Plage, Becca Horger, Amelia Medolla, Cassie Davidson, Sarah Chambers, and Andi Levitz.

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• Skidmore will host sixth-seeded Union on Tuesday, Feb. 25 at 5:30 p.m. in the first round of the Liberty League Tournament.