ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – Senior guard
Megan Horn (Basking Ridge, N.J./The Pingry School) finished just two assists shy of her second career triple-double in leading the Washington and Lee women's basketball team to an 86-45 win over Lake Forest on Monday afternoon.
W&L (6-3) led by a 31-29 count with just under a minute left in the second quarter when sophomore guard
Hanna Malik (Raleigh, N.C./Athens Drive) started a 10-0 run with a three and two free throws. The Generals led, 36-29, at halftime before the 10-0 run ended in the third quarter.
The Generals went on to outscore the Foresters (3-6), 50-16, in the second half and scored 25 points in both the third and fourth quarters. The fourth quarter included separate W&L runs of 12-0 and 11-0, which were sandwiched around three Lake Forest points for a 23-3 overall stretch.
Lake Forest's final lead was 7-6 at the 6:45 mark in the first quarter, but the Generals led by as many as nine points just two minutes later. The Foresters pulled the game back even at 27-27 at the 2:40 mark of the second quarter, before Malik went on a 9-2 run by herself, with her final five points starting the 10-0 run into the third.
Horn, who owns the only other triple-double in program history, finished with 16 points, 10 rebounds, eight assists and four steals, and she made 5-of-10 field goals, 2-of-5 triples and 4-of-5 foul shots. Malik tallied 14 points and three rebounds, junior forward
Kathryn Vandiver (Charlotte, N.C. / Charlotte Latin School) put up 11 points on 5-of-8 shooting on the offensive end and notched five blocks and three steals on the defensive end.
Vandiver's five blocks marked a career-high and the most since
Erin Hughes '21 swatted six shots in an 85-82 win over Bridgewater on January 16, 2019.
Lake Forest sophomore guard Maurissa Edwards scored a team-high 12 points and added four rebounds. Junior guard Katie Neher and junior forward Annie Lally both scored 10 points and combined for 10 rebounds.
The Generals shot 48.3 percent (29-60) overall in the game and limited the Foresters to 26.6 percent (17-64), which is the lowest since holding Bridgewater to 25.4 percent (17-67) on November 21, 2019. W&L also connected on 21-of-23 free throws in the game for a .913 percentage, the highest in a game on a minimum of 10 attempts since hitting 11-of-12 foul shots (.917) on January 2, 2020. The program record is .956 (22-23), which was set on January 12, 2002.
For the game, W&L outscored Lake Forest off turnovers (23-10), in the paint (38-30), on fastbreaks (14-10), in bench points (31-8) and second-chance points (10-5).
The Generals will be back in action next Wednesday, December 29, in a 12:00 pm road contest at Emory.
