'On This Day' Women's Basketball Team Cruises to Season-Opening Win

'On This Day' is a Wells College Athletics feature series taking a look back on events that occurred on this day, Nov. 13, five years ago in 2015.

ALFRED, N.Y. – Four different student-athletes reached double-digit point scoring totals as the Wells College women's basketball team rolled to a 70-54 win against Alfred University on Friday, Nov. 13, 2015, at the Terry S. Galanis Family Arena. Wells won its fourth season-opener since the team's modern-era debut in 2010 while Alfred picks up its second-straight loss to the Express.

Ashida Cooper racked up 20 points for the Express in her debut, shooting 9-for-15 from the floor while posting a team-leading four steals. Holli Erkson registered 16 points and nine rebounds while Kamarie Maturine had an outstanding first game, hauling in a team-leading 18 rebounds and scoring 13 points.

Maturine also led the way with three blocks on defense. Lindsay Achzet tallied 10 points and three assists while Shelby Medovich reached double-digit rebounds (10) in her collegiate debut. Overall, Wells out-rebounded the Saxons by a 57-to-31 margin.

Wells opened up two six-point leads in the first quarter, but Alfred rallied in the second quarter, taking a game-high five-point lead at 20-15 following an Amanda Off layup with 6:51 left in the first half.

However, a layup by Erkson put Wells ahead by a 21-20 score and the team never looked back, eventually building a 31-25 lead at the half. Across a time span of 10:23 near the midpoint of the game, Wells had scored 27 of the game's 32 points.

Wells opened the third quarter on an 11-0 run, establishing a commanding 42-25 lead with 6:12 remaining in the stanza. Alfred made a brief comeback attempt, cutting the score to 48-45 with 6:15 left in regulation time, but the Express concluded the game with a 22-to-6 run across the next 5:07 to put the game out of reach.

Boxscore: https://www.wells-express.com/sports/wbkb/2015-16/boxscores/20151113_zuzj.xml?view=boxscore