UMBC

Amanda Robinson scored a season-high 18 points against Drexel.

Philadelphia, Pa.-The UMBC women’s basketball team had its four-game winning streak snapped Saturday afternoon with a 65-58 loss to Drexel at Daskalakis Athletic Center in Philadelphia. The Retrievers were led by Amanda Robinson’s season-high 18 points and Matea Pender’s 17. UMBC suffers only its second loss on the season, falling to 6-2, while Drexel improves to 4-4.

The score was tied, 13-13, about midway through the first half before Drexel’s Kira Karlstrom hit a three-pointer with 8:22 left, and the Dragons never looked back, going on a 15-3 run over the next four minutes to jump out to a 28-16 lead before taking a 38-26 advantage into halftime.

Drexel shot 62.5 percent in the first half and sunk seven three-pointers. The Retrievers were 4-for-7 from three-point range in the first period and shot 37 percent from the floor.

Despite a 12-point deficit, UMBC started the second half on a 9-2 run and eventually got within four points of the Dragons at 45-41 with just under 14 minutes remaining in the game, but Drexel’s Narissa Suber sank a three-pointer to put the Dragons up by seven. The Retrievers again got to within four points at 54-50 with just under seven minutes left, but another Dragon three, this one by Nicole Hester, gave Drexel another seven-point lead.

Down by seven, Pender attempted a desperation three-pointer with eight seconds remaining, but the shot was off. Before the missed basket, Pender had been 5-for-5 from three-point range on the day. She and Sharri Rhode, who scored 10 points in the game, each grabbed a team-high five rebounds.

UMBC’s bench, which had been averaging 16.5 points per game, managed only two points against Drexel and was outscored, 22-2. The Retrievers’ two bench points came from free throws by Mackenzie Butler.

The Dragons were led by 16 points from Hester and 14 from Catherine Scanlon.

In the middle of a five-game road trip, the Retrievers next travel to Indiana to take on IPFW and Butler Dec. 20 and 22.