'On This Day' Roser Becomes NEAC’s All-Time Leading Scorer as Express Take Program-Record Fifth-Straight
'On This Day' is a Wells College Athletics feature series taking a look back on events that occurred on this day, Feb. 8, seven years ago in 2014.
CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. – Senior Ashley Roser set the North Eastern Athletic Conference career scoring record as the Wells College women's basketball team posted a 77-49 victory over the Phoenix of Wilson College on Saturday, Feb. 8, 2014.
As a team, the Express also set a program record with their fifth-straight victory, improving to 13-7 overall and to 8-3 within league play.
Roser, who scored 17 points against Wilson, has now scored more career points than any player has in NEAC history. She eclipses the previous career scoring record set by Colleen Clarke of Cazenovia College. Clarke, a four-year member of the Wildcats, who scored 1,910 points in 104 career games from 2006 to 2010. Roser now boasts 1,920 career points across 91 career games with the Express.
Falling one rebound short of a double-double versus the Phoenix, Roser currently boasts 76 career double-doubles and ranks fourth all-time in NCAA Division III history in that category. The current active national leader for double-doubles in her division, Roser also has 57 double-doubles in her career against NEAC opponents.
Entering this week's slate of games, Roser stands as the active NCAA Division III leader in points scored, scoring average, rebounding, field goals made, and free throw attempts. She ranks second in free throws made and field goal attempts in addition to a third place ranking in rebounding average.
A four-year captain who made her Wells debut in 2010 during the first-year of modern era basketball in Aurora, Roser was selected as the 2012-13 NEAC Player of the Year following a stellar junior campaign where she led the nation in rebounds per game (16.7). She remains one of only two players (Juan Paulino, men's basketball) to have earned a national statistical championship.
Roser's 17 points and nine rebounds led the team in both categories. Wilson possessed a four-point lead with 8:26 left in the first half, but with the game tied at 23 with 5:24 remaining, Wells utilized a jump shot by Kristen Ryan and a 3-point basket by Cassie Smythe to take a five-point lead (28-23) with 4:01 remaining in the half.
The Express were able to keep the host Phoenix at bay throughout the remainder of the first half, outscoring their opponent by a 24-to-3 margin in the first half's final 5:24. In the second half alone, Wells outscored Wilson by a 30-to-23 spread and eventually built up a game-high lead 34 points after a jumper by Taylor Spranger with 4:09 remaining in regulation time.
Boxscore: https://www.wells-express.com/sports/wbkb/2013-14/boxscores/20140208_nzkf.xml?view=boxscore
