WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.—Senior Kelly Walsh (Goffstown, N.H.) finished with 22 points, seven assists and a season-high seven steals but visiting Babson College suffered a 70-60 loss to Williams College on the final day of the Shooting Touch Classic on Saturday afternoon inside Chandler Gymnasium. 

Babson drops to 4-4 on the year with the loss while Williams improves to 6-2 overall with its second consecutive victory. 

Junior Katelyn Mollica (Foxborough, Mass.) went 5-of-10 from three-point range and put up 15 points to go along with five rebounds and five assists, while classmate Abby Miller (Millis, Mass.) added 12 points, four boards and three dimes to lead the Beavers. Senior Rachel McMenemy (Northborough, Mass.) pulled down a team-high six rebounds and also contributed three steals in the loss. 

Junior Arianna Gerig (Westport, Conn.) went 15-of-18 at the free throw line and finished with 28 points, 11 rebounds, seven assists, two steals and two blocks to pace the Ephs. Classmate Ellie Tounkara (Bethesda, Md.) and first-year Mairi Smith (Audubon, Pa. both chipped in with 10 points and three rebounds in the win. 

The Green and White got back-to-back hoops by Miller and Walsh as well as a three-pointer to jump out to a quick 7-2 advantage, and senior Madison Odam (San Jose, Calif.) followed another triple by Mollica with one of her own for a 17-13 advantage with 2:05 to go in the first quarter. McBarron answered with four points and Gerig, Tounkara and first-year Tatum Leuenberger (Sunnyvale, Calif.) all drilled trifectas as Willliams scored 15 straight points to build a 28-17 edge just over four minutes into the second. 

A jumper by sophomore Kate Keenan (Foxborough, Mass.) made it 33-19 at the 4:59 mark and the Ephs outscored Babson 20-6 in the stanza to take a 35-23 lead into the locker room. The Beavers cut got back within eight twice early in the third but Gerig answered with four straight points and Leuenberger canned her third three-pointer of the afternoon to push the margin back to 48-35 with 3:53 left in the period. 

Mollica drilled a pair of triples late in the third to pull Babson back within 50-42, but Gerig responded with a hoop in the paint and Keenan buried a three-pointer from the left wing with 7:17 remaining as the Williams lead bulged back to 55-42. Four points from Walsh and a pair of jumpers by Miller helped the Green and White close the gap to 57-50 at the 3:14 mark but Smith answered with a hoop on the other end and the Ephs went 11-of-14 at the charity stripe over the final 1:51 to salt away their victory. 

The Beavers shot 38.7 percent from the floor and dished out assists on 16 of their 24 made field goals. They also finished with 14 steals, which is just one shy of their season high. Williams shot 46.9 percent overall and went 7-of-13 from beyond the arc (53.8 percent) in addition to holding a slim 37-33 rebounding edge. 

Babson is back in action on Tuesday when it travels to Framingham State at 5:30 p.m., while the Ephs visit nationally-ranked Smith on Wednesday at 7 p.m. 

GAME NOTES
•    The Beavers are 5-16 all-time against Williams. 
•    Walsh averaged 17.5 points, 7.0 assists and 5.5 steals in games against Middlebury and the Ephs over the weekend. 
•    Babson is now 0-3 this season when allowing 70 points or more. 
•    The Beavers are 7-6 versus NESCAC foes going back to the start of the 2021-22 campaign.