Women's Basketball

Emory and Henry Ends Women's Basketball's Record-Breaking Season

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EMORY, Va. -- The winningest season in Randolph women's basketball program history ended this evening at the hands of Emory and Henry, 66-49.

The No. 7 seeded Wasps earned the victory over the No. 10 WildCats to advance to Salem to face No. 2 Randolph-Macon on Friday in the ODAC quarterfinals.

Early on, Emory and Henry had the edge, scoring the first seven points of the contest before senior Allie Druffel got the WildCats on the scoreboard with a driving right-handed layup.

After another 7-0 E&H run, first-year Alexis Calloway put the ball off glass on consecutive possessions for the WildCats to get Randolph back into the game.

Calloway later added two blocks to move into the top 10 in program history in single-season blocks (24).

The teams exchanged short runs over the middle of the frame, leaving Randolph behind by 11 with four minutes remaining.

Late in the first half, first-year Daijah Johnson pulled up from the left wing to start a 6-0 run, as she was followed by Druffel and senior Chelsea Tyler hitting layups.

Just as in the regular season finale on Sunday, the WildCats got momentum heading into halftime with a basket just before the buzzer.

To see the shot by first-year Taylor Samuels that sent the WildCats into intermission down just 36-28, click here.

Emory and Henry started the second half nearly as well as it started the first, scoring the first six points of the period, but once again scoring 14 of the first 16 points to start.

The Wasps used that edge to wrap up the first win for the home team in three meetings between these teams this year.

Samuels led Randolph with 15 points, while Druffel had her fourth straight double-double with 10 points and 10 rebounds.

The game ends the careers of the winningest four-year class in the history of Randolph's program.

Randolph's graduating seniors, Druffel, Tyler, Jensen Hoover and Dyllan Peterson, accumulated 33 wins over their careers, including setting program records for wins in a season in each of the last two years.

Hoover's field goal percentage this year will finish above 50% for the fourth time in her career, as Randolph's all-time leader in games played and started will also retire with the highest field goal percentage for a career, 54.4%.

She has never shot below 50.5% for a season, while no other player has ever even averaged that mark for an entire career.

Last year, she became the first player in the ODAC in nine years to finish above 60%, breaking a program record in the process.

Hoover also finishes with 683 rebounds, which is fourth in program history, while Druffel finishes with 534, which is seventh in team history.

Druffel also eclipsed 200 rebounds on the season in the contest.

Tyler's 159 steals ranks her fifth in program history, while her 36 blocks leaves her 10th.

Randolph wraps up the season at 13-13, which is the first .500 season in program history.

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