ANNONDALE-ON-HUDSON, NY – The RIT (11-12, 5-9 Liberty League) women's basketball team defeated Bard College (4-18, 0-14 Liberty League) 75-67 Saturday afternoon at the Stevenson Athletic Center on the campus of Bard. Sophomore Taylor Burns (Rochester, NY/Greece Odyssey) (Rochester, NY/Greece Odyssey) scored a career-high 21 points to pace the Tigers.

RIT shot 43.6 percent from the floor on 24-of-55 shooting. The Tigers made 7-of-13 from behind the arc and went 20-of-27 from the foul line. Burns led RIT with 21 points on 7-of-13 shooting, including three 3-pointers. Jessica Glaz (Rockaway Beach, NY/Scholars Academy) (Rockaway Beach, NY/Scholars Academy) added 20 points, while Sarah Wolcott (Cohocton, NY/Wayland-Cohocton) (Cohocton, NY/Wayland-Cohocton) chipped in 11 points. Freshman Abby Judd (Pittsford, NY/Pittsford Sutherland) (Pittsford, NY/Pittsford Sutherland) tallied 10 points off the bench for RIT.

Tytravia Riley led Bard with 20 points and 21 rebounds. Bianka Bell scored 14 points, while Joanna Regan and Gabriela Piercy each scored 11 for the Raptors who shot 36.6 percent from the floor.
 
RIT trailed early in the first half, but took the lead at the 16:10 mark on a 3-pointer from Glaz. A Burns bucket on RIT's next possession extended the Tiger's lead to 7-4. The Tigers built their lead to 14-5 on a Judd bucket off an assist from Glaz at the 11:09 mark of the first half.

RIT took its largest lead with 3:33 to play on another 3-pointer from Glaz, extending the Tigers lead to 27-15. Bard responded with a mini-run to close out the first half. The Raptors scored four straight points, including a 3-pointer from Bell with 1:26 to play cutting RIT's lead to 27-22 at the half.

RIT shot 36.7 percent from the floor in the opening half led by Glaz and her 13 points. Bell led Bard with seven points, while Piercy tallied six.
  
Bard cut the lead to three points early in the second half when Riley put back her own rebound. She scored 15 of her 20 points in the second half. The Tigers would extend their lead back to eight points on a three from Burns at the 17:29 mark of the second half. Burns would make it an 11-point lead when she drained a pair of free throws at the 16:22 mark.

Reagan cut the Tigers lead to 39-33 on her bucket with 15:17 to play. Later in the half, Wolcott extended the Tigers lead back to nine points with her free throw at the 10:48 mark.

Bard answered with a 7-1 burst, cutting the Tigers lead to just three points on a jumper from Piercy with 8:20 to play in regulation. Piercy made it a 2-point game when she converted the old fashioned 3-point play with 7:27 to play. Liz Freud tied the game at 53-53 on her bucket with a little less than seven minutes remaining.

RIT weathered the storm and answered back with nine straight points, taking a 62-53 lead on another Glaz three, this one off a feed from Sydney Frank (Haverford, PA/Friends' Central) (Haverford, PA/Friends' Central). Glaz finished with four 3-pointers on the afternoon.

The Raptors showed more fight, tying the score at 62-62 on a Bell layup with 2:03 to play. That capped off a 9-0 run by Bard as Bell scored four points for the Raptors in the run.

Five straight points from Burns on RIT's next two possessions gave the Tigers a 66-62 lead with 1:45 to play. Amanda Olsen (Glen Mills, PA/Archmere Academy) (Glen Mills, PA/Archmere Academy) made 1-of-2 free throws to make it 67-62 RIT with 1:16 remaining. Riley got the lead to three on her bucket with :55 to play, but RIT drained clutch free throws down the stretch to secure the win.

RIT scored 20 points in the paint, and got 13 points off of 11 Bard turnovers. The Tigers sweep the season series over Bard and improve to 8-0 all time versus the Raptors.

RIT returns to action on Wednesday, Feb. 18 when the Tigers face Liberty League foe William Smith College at 6 p.m. in Geneva, N.Y.