SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY — The No. 2 seeded RIT (21-6) women's basketball team lost to top-seed Skidmore College (18-9) 65-42 Sunday in the Liberty League Women's Basketball Tournament championship game at the Williamson Sports Center. Senior Jessica Glaz (Rockaway Beach, NY/Scholars Academy) led the Tigers with 13 points and was named to the All-Tournament team.

RIT struggled from the floor throughout, shooting a season-low 24.6 percent on 15-of-61 shooting. The Tigers made six 3-pointers, and went 6-of-8 from the foul line. Glaz led with 13 points and five assists. Amanda Olsen (Glen Mills, PA/Archmere Academy) grabbed a team-high 10 rebounds, while Tara Lynch (Green Township, NJ/Newton) tallied seven points. Brooke Stanley (Minnetonka, MN/Benilde-St. Margaret's) came off the bench to score 11 points.

Veronica Moceri led Skidmore with 20 points. Ari Fustini tallied 15 points, while Kelly Donnelly scored 13 points and grabbed 13 rebounds for the Thoroughbreds, who shot 41.2 percent from the floor.

RIT trailed 9-6 in a low-scoring first quarter. Lynch tied the game at 4-4 with her jumper with 3:05 to play in the quarter. Sydney Frank (Haverford, PA/Friends' Central) gave the Tigers its lone lead of the game with 1:23 to play to give RIT a 6-4 advantage. Moceri gave the Thoroughbreds a 7-6 lead with her 3-pointer with 59 seconds to play. Donnelly score with two seconds to play in the quarter to give Skidmore a 9-6 lead.

Skidmore increased its lead to 11-6 early in the second quarter on a Donnelly bucket 59 seconds into the quarter. Taylor Ong gave the Thoroughbreds a 16-6 on a layup with 5:36 to play in the half, completing a 10-0 run. 

Glaz answered right back for RIT, draining a 3-pointer on RIT's next possession, cutting the Skidmore lead to 16-9. Later in the quarter, Abby Judd (Pittsford, NY/Pittsford Sutherland) scored to pull RIT to within five points at 18-13 with 3:15 to play. Ari Fustini gave Skidmore its largest lead of the half with her three-pointer inside the last minute of the half to give the Thoroughbreds a 27-16 lead. Glaz scored with 45 seconds to play to cut the Skidmore lead to 27-18 at the half.

RIT shot 29.2 percent from the floor in the first half on 7-of-24 shooting. Glaz led the Tigers with 10 points, shooting 3-of-4 from the foul line. Moceri led Skidmore with nine points.

The Tigers never got going in the second half, falling behind 36-18 on a jumper from Donnelly early in the third quarter. Moceri gave the Thoroughbreds a 42-20 lead on her 3-pointer with 4:29 to play in the quarter. A Glaz 3-pointer with 2:50 to play cut the Skidmore lead to 42-26. The Thoroughbreds finished the quarter on a 5-2 spurt to lead 47-28 heading into the fourth quarter.

Brooke Stanley (Minnetonka, MN/Benilde-St. Margaret's) came off the bench in the fourth quarter and drained two straight 3-pointers, cutting the Skidmore lead to 52-36 with 5:33 to play. She shot 4-of-5 from the floor in the quarter, tallying 11 points.
 
The Thoroughbreds earn the automatic bid into the NCAA Division III Tournament. RIT, appearing in its third straight Liberty League title game, will await a possible at-large berth into the tournament. The 21 wins for RIT is the most in one season in program history, breaking the old record of 20 set in 2015-16.

The 2018 NCAA Division III Selection Show will take place on Monday, Feb. 26 at 2:30 p.m. Click HERE to view the show.