CHICAGO, Ill. – The Brandeis University women's basketball team saw two players close in on school records, but the Judges could not overcome a cold stretch in the second quarter, as the Judges took a 63-51 defeat at the hands of the University of Chicago Maroons in University Athletic Association this evening.

TEAM RECORDS

• Brandeis: 5-18, 1-11 UAA.
• Chicago: 16-7, 9-3 UAA.

INSIDE THE BOX SCORE

• The two Judges approaching school records were their two leading scorers.
• Sophomore Katherine Vaughan (Bedford, Mass./Bedford) led all players with 12 points, hitting 6-of-12 from the field. She also had a team-high six rebounds and two blocked shots.
• The two blocked shots give Vaughan 37 for the season, one shy of the Judges' single-season record of 38, set by Natalia Zubko '00 in the 1998-99 season.
• Graduate student Francesca Marchese (Staten Island, N.Y./Staten Island Academy) added 11 points, hitting 3-of-10 overall and 3-of-8 from 3-point range. With her three 3-pointers, Marchese tied former All-American Jessica Chapin '00 for second on Brandeis's career list with 167 trifectas. She needs two more in her last two games to tie and three to break the all-time record of 169 3-pointers set by Camila Casanueva '22.
• Marchese was also second on the team in with five rebounds tonight and led the way with two steals.
• Junior Lulu Ohm (Waltham, Mass./Waltham) and first-year Claire Candela (Maynard, Mass./Milton Academy) each had six points, while Ohm and sophomores Brooke Reed (Chantilly, Va./Westfield) and Abby Kennedy (Half Moon Bay, Calif./Half Moon Bay) all had two assists.
• Chicago got 11 points each from Marissa Powe and Sophia North, while Kate Gross added nine points.
• Kasi Samuda led all players with seven rebounds off the bench, while Ellie Gross had three assists and three steals, both game-highs.
• Chicago won the battle of the boards, 45-36, and even though the Maroons committed two more turnovers (18-16), they outscored the Judges, 21-13, off those miscues.

HOW IT HAPPENED

• The first quarter was even defensively, with Chicago taking a 15-12 lead after neither team shot better than 35 percent for the stanza. Brandeis's points were spread among five different players with field goals or free throws, same as Chicago, with Powe leading the way with five points as the only player in the game with more than one bucket.
• Brandeis struggled from the field in the second quarter, hitting just 5-of-14 from the field with seven turnovers, while UC shot 10-of-20 and had just one miscue, outscoring Brandeis 11-0 in the period off turnovers as the Maroons took a 39-24 lead into the locker room.
• Chicago pushed their advantage as large as 26 points in the third quarter, taking a 57-36 lead into the fourth.
• Brandeis outscored the hosts, 15-6, in the final 10 minutes, holding them to 2-11 from the field, but it was too little, too late.

UP NEXT

• The Judges head to Washington University in St. Louis on Sunday for a 3 p.m Eastern (2 Central) tipoff.