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Williamstown, MA- Chessie Jackson stole the spotlight for the second night in a row, carrying Williams to a 82-48 win over Little Three rival Wesleyan Saturday in the Chandler Gymnasium .
Jackson finished with a game-high 31 points on 12 of 17 shooting and secured seven rebounds.
With the win Williams improved to 17-1, 4-0 in NESCAC play and Wesleyan fell to 6-10. Williams' next game will be at home versus Eastern Connecticut State at 7 pm on Thursday.
Said Ephs' coach Pat Manning, "Chessie had an incredible weekend. The defense she is playing is making her offense even better, and she is not forcing any shots because they are just coming to her in the flow of the offense."
Taylor Shea also scored in double figures with 12 points. For Wesleyan the leading scorers were Sam LaCroce with nine points and Kendra Harris with seven.
Williams took control of the game from the very beginning. The Ephs opened the game on an 11-0 run that was capped by Jackson three-pointer which forced a Wesleyan timeout with 15:48. Shea and Jackson combined for all 11 points in the run.
Wesleyan came out of the timeout and ended its scoring drought with Sam LaCroce hitting a three. Wesleyan's Jenna Klaes had a good stretch, driving past her defender and making a layup then coming back on the next possession and draining a three.
Williams started to stretch the lead going up 27-12 with 10:00 left and causing a Wesleyan timeout. Lisa Jarvis sealed her defender and received a nice pass from Jennie Harding; Jaris got fouled but was able to make the layup and then completed the three-point play making the foul shot.
Williams continued to control the game up 39-18 with 4:21 remaining. Jackson received the ball at the high post and hit Jill Greenberg with a bounce pass on a backdoor cut which led to a lay-up for the Ephs' point guard.
Jackson took over to close out the half. With under two minutes Jackson hit two threes on consecutive possessions and then another with the final seconds ticking off to send Williams into the half up 52-22.
Jackson was unstoppable the first half. She had 29 points on 11 of 14 shooting, 5 of 8 from beyond the three-point line, and five rebounds.
Williams did not take its foot off of the gas at the start of the second half. In the first four minutes Williams went on a 14-4 run going up 66-28. Grace Rehnquist started to heat up hitting a three from the corner and then one of from the wing. From then on the Ephs maintained the lead, going up 71-32 with 11:18 left and 80-44 with 5:30 remaining.
Williams dominated the boards grabbing 48 rebounds compared to Wesleyan's 29. Coach Manning said, "we really emphasized rebounding because last weekend we just equaled Bates and Tufts in that category and we know we have to win the rebounding category."
Williams shot very well from the field, 50% (29-58) and held Wesleyan to shooting only 31.1% (19-61).
