'On This Day' Women’s Basketball Team Sets Single-Game Points Record

'On This Day' is a Wells College Athletics feature series taking a look back on events that occurred on this day, Jan. 31, five years ago in 2016.

CAZENOVIA, N.Y. – The Wells College women's basketball team set the single-game program record for point scoring on Sunday, Jan. 31, 2016, against Cazenovia College, defeating the host Wildcats by a 95-70 margin. Wells moves to 11-7 overall and to 7-4 within the North Eastern Athletic Conference.

Wells poured home 95 points, eclipsing the previous team record of 93 points scored on Feb. 14, 2015 against Penn College at home. Before Sunday's offensive output, the previous record for points scored by the Express on the road was 88 against the SUNY Polytechnic Institute on Feb. 10, 2013.

Ashida Cooper scored 20 points for Wells while also contributing with seven rebounds, six assists and four steals in a well-rounded effort. Holli Erkson struck for 19 points, hauling in seven rebounds and dishing out four assists, while Shelby Medovich was third on the team with 18 points.

Kamarie Maturine picked up 16 points and 11 rebounds, leading her squad in the latter category en route to her fourth double-double in five games. Vielka Barber also reached double-digits off the bench for Wells, scoring 11 points and earning eight rebounds in only 22 minutes played.

As a team, Wells made 37 field goals (second-most all-time) and out-rebounded Cazenovia by a 58-to-31 margin. Collectively, the team was 37-for-81 from the floor (.457 percent) while the Wildcats were hampered by a .371 field goal percentage (23-for-62) after making only eight-of-32 field goals in the opening 20 minutes.

The game started off in Cazenovia's favor as the hosts opened up a game-high four point lead with 2:06 left in the first half. Despite a trey from Medovich down the stretch, both teams ended up deadlocked at 24 after the opening 10 minutes of play.

Wells never looked back, however, after opening the second quarter on a 14-0 run that spanned 4:48 and was capped off by a three-pointer by Jasmine Thomas to create a 35-21 lead. Back-to-back free throws by Cazenovia came before two-straight three-pointers and a layup from Erkson to propel the Express to a 43-23 lead.

The Express saw its lead grow to 30 points in the third quarter as a layup by Medovich with 12 seconds left created a 76-46 advantage. The fourth quarter, however, saw Wells open up a game-high 35-point lead as a Barber 3-pointer was sandwiched between two layups from Maturine with 7:13 left to elevate her team to a 83-48 lead.

Boxscore: https://www.wells-express.com/sports/wbkb/2015-16/boxscores/20160131_cj6s.xml?view=boxscore