Syracuse, N.Y. – The Colgate University Raiders claimed a 69-45 victory over the Le Moyne College women's basketball team Saturday afternoon at Ted Grant Court with the help of 14 made three-point field goals, including seven from junior guard Anne Bair, who finished the contest with a career-high 24 points on 67% shooting from the field and 70% from beyond the arc in addition to a game-high six assists.

Senior guard Morgan McMahon also scored in double figures for Colgate with 12 points on 5-for-8 shooting from the field, including 2-for-3 from long range.

Le Moyne junior guard Sierra Linnin (Valley Cottage, N.Y./Albertus Magnus) led Le Moyne in scoring with a season-high 15 points on 5-for-7 shooting from three-point range. With her first three of the game, Linnin surpassed Emily Greer for fourth on the program's all-time career made threes list. Linnin's 141 career made threes as a Dolphin trails only Liz Millea (147), Kim Black (201) and McKayla Roberts (297).

Freshman guard Eli Clark (Oakhurst, N.J./Ocean Township) provided seven points to the Le Moyne cause, while senior guard Emily Florvil (Brooklyn, N.Y./Nazareth) tallied three rebounds, a team-high three assists, and a team-high two steals, senior forward Brianna Williams (Brampton, Ontario/Southwest Academy/Hartford) pulled down a game-high seven rebounds, and sophomore forward Sydney Postell (Churchville, N.Y./Churchville-Chili) tied her season-high of six points on 3-for-4 shooting from the field.

Colgate entered the contest leading all Patriot League teams in points per game, scoring margin, field goal percentage, three-point field goal percentage, turnover margin and assist to turnover ratio. Le Moyne held the Raiders to under their 73.0 scoring average, and well below their 45.2% field goal percentage, but 14 of Colgate's 26 total made field goals came from beyond the arc.

The Raiders committed just nine turnovers and tallied 22 assists, forced the Dolphins into 26 turnovers and scored 22 points off of those turnovers.

Linnin's season-high 15 helped Le Moyne register a season-best 30 bench points during the setback. The Dolphins made 10 of their 12 free-throw attempts Saturday, marking the fourth time this season that they've shot above 80% from the line. Le Moyne limited Colgate to a season-low six free-throw attempts.

"We held them to 28 first-half points, we held them under their first goal percentage average… we're 46% from the field, 42% from three and 83% from the line so we outshot them in all three of those phases but took 34 less shots because of those turnovers," said Le Moyne head coach Nick DiPillo after the game. "We're trying to work as hard as we can to find our chemistry on the floor. We're doing a great job of building it off the floor and we're actually doing a pretty good job on the defensive end but it's hard to sustain that defensive energy and effort and focus if we're not capitalizing on the offensive end and you're starting to see that a little bit.

"If we just play the way we're supposed to play most consistently and more consistently then we're going to start to see this thing turn around," DiPillo added.

Clark scored five points in the first quarter for Le Moyne and the Dolphins trailed the Raiders 10-9 after 10 minutes of play. Clark scored two running layups from the left block during the opening frame, the second of which was converted through contact and earned her a trip to the line where she drained the free throw to complete the old-fashioned three-point play.

The Raiders outscored the Dolphins 18-7 in the second period to take a 28-16 lead into halftime. McMahon provided seven points during the second, while Bair added two three in the quarter. Linnin splashed a deep three-pointer at the 2:29 mark in the second quarter to cut Le Moyne's deficit to 12, then neither side scored for the remainder of the frame.

The Raiders caught fire in the third, shooting 10-for-19 during the quarter, including 6-for-12 from three-point range. Bair shot 4-for-5 from three in the final 6:20 of the third to help extend Colgate's lead to 54-33 heading into the fourth. Le Moyne scored 17 third-quarter points with the help of three triples from Linnin.

With just under eight minutes left in the third, Clark inbounded the ball underneath Le Moyne's basket and threw it off the back of a Colgate defender, then collected the ball in the paint and finished a contested layup to cut Le Moyne's deficit to 28-20.

Colgate then went on a 10-0 run with back-to-back jumpers from Sophia Diehl followed by two threes from Bair. Williams ended the run with two free throws at the 4:49 mark.

Following a jumper from Williams with 7:40 left in the fourth, Colgate went on a 6-0 spurt to establish their largest lead of the game at 64-35 with 4:24 left in the contest.

The Dolphins then went on a 6-0 run of their own with two free throws from sophomore forward Zhara Adeyemi (Brooklyn, N.Y./South Shore) and back-to-back baskets from Postell.

Colgate ended the Le Moyne run at the 2:04 mark with a three-point field goal from first-year guard Ella Mahaffey. Adeyemi sank two more free throws with a 1:12 left in the fourth, then Postell scored Le Moyne's final field goal in the final minute of the game.

The Le Moyne women's basketball team will play its final home game of the non-conference slate next Saturday against Buffalo at 12:00 p.m. Le Moyne will conclude its non-conference schedule on December 31 at Princeton.