SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – The Skidmore College women's basketball team held on to defeat Union College, 46-43, in the first round of the Liberty League Tournament at the Williamson Sports Center on Tuesday evening.

• Skidmore (15-11) will play in its third consecutive league semifinal on Friday when it travels to second-seeded Vassar College.
• The Thoroughbreds are looking to make it to the conference title game for the third straight year.
• Union put up three attempts in the final minute for 3-pointers to tie the game. Grace Ardito let one go through traffic that stayed out as time expired.
• Neither team scored over the final 2:20 as the squads combined to shoot 17.4 percent in the fourth quarter with just seven points aside.
• Cassie Davidson led all players in the game with 16 points.
• Sarah Chambers was right behind with 15 and a double-double with 11 rebounds. She was 4-of-5 from 3-point range and had four assists and a pair of steals.
• Claudia Schneider had seven points and six boards, including a key defensive rebound with 10 seconds left to deny the Garnet Chargers of a second-chance opportunity.
• Becca Horger had five steals and five points.
• Jelena Perovic led the visitors with 12 points. Jenna Forman had 10.
• Davidson put a stamp on a good first quarter for the Thoroughbreds with a 3-point play with 1:38 left. She had eight in the first.
• After starting the game 4-of-7, Union made just one of its next six from the field ending the quarter scoreless over the final three minutes and change.
• The Thoroughbreds built their lead up to double digits in the second when the visitors answered with a five-point unanswered run to pull to within five. Davidson scored an open layup with nine seconds left for the seven-point Skidmore lead at the break.
• Skidmore had an 11-2 advantage in points off turnovers over the first 20 minutes.
• The Thoroughbreds again built a lead in the low double digits, going as high as 13, in the third quarter before a 10-0 Garnet Charger run that lasted over six minutes made it a three-point game.
• Chambers drilled a 3-pointer to end the Skidmore scoreless stretch, but Ardito came back with a bomb of her own for the visitors to send the game into the fourth quarter with just a three-point Skidmore lead.
• Skidmore's only field goal of the fourth quarter, after Chambers drilled a triple early, was a Davidson layup with 2:50 left to make it 46-41. Skidmore opened the period with four unanswered points to go up seven before Union clawed its way back in it.
• Union briefly got to within two points in the middle of the fourth on an Olivia Cunningham mid-range jumper before a Davidson free throw quickly got it back to three.
• Union's bench outscored Skidmore's 19-1, but Skidmore had a 20-5 edge in points off turnovers and a 10-2 advantage in second-chance points.
• This was just the second-ever playoff meeting between Skidmore and Union. The postseason series is now tied 1-1.

UP NEXT

• The Thoroughbreds will hit the road for Vassar on Friday at 5:30 p.m. in the Liberty League Semifinal. The championship game is Sunday at the highest seed remaining.