'On This Day' Roser Sets Single Game Home Point Record with 20th-Consecutive Double-Double

'On This Day' is a Wells College Athletics feature series taking a look back on events that occurred on this day, Dec. 2, seven years ago in 2013.

AURORA, N.Y. – Senior captain Ashley Roser scored a team-leading 35 points en route to a 79-75 victory over non-conference foe Hilbert College Monday evening, Dec. 2, 2013, at the Frances Tarlton Farenthold Athletic Wing. Roser's heroics came on the same day that she was named the NEAC's Women's Basketball Player of the Week, her 13th weekly conference award to date.

Dating back to Jan. 16, 2013, Roser has racked up 20-straight double-digit rebound and point scoring tallies. This evening, Roser scored 35 total points and pulled down 12 rebounds to lead the Express in both categories. Kaitlynne Knapp scored 13 points in the victory while Theresa Hernandez posted double-digit rebound totals for the third-straight game.

For Roser, her 35-point effort in this evening's game is the third-highest single game total of her career. Roser also set a single-game high for points scored at home this evening and made 15 field goals in the tilt, a single-game program record, after shooting 15-for-22 from the floor.

Wells led from start to finish, scoring within the game's first four seconds following a Roser layup. The Express never allowed the Hawks to come within two points of taking the lead, eventually building a 12-point lead with a Roser jumper in the half's waning minutes. Wells took a 37-25 lead into halftime. In the first half alone, Roser had recorded 21 points and nine rebounds, falling one rebound shy of a double-double in the game's first 20 minutes.

The Express opened up a 15-point lead with 15:26 remaining in the second stanza, utilizing a Knapp layup to extend the Wells lead to 48-33. Wells later had a 15-point lead, a 66-51 spread, with 6:07 remaining in regulation time following an Anita Babb layup, but the guests rallied in a large way in the final five minutes of regulation time.

Hilbert put together a powerful rally, scoring 12 unanswered points in the game's next 2:05 to cut the deficit to 66-63 in favor of the host Express. Wells, however, was able to stave off the Hawks rally and pocket the 79-75 win.

Boxscore: https://www.wells-express.com/sports/wbkb/2013-14/boxscores/20131202_el4w.xml?view=boxscore