ARNOLD, MD – The Anne Arundel Community College women's basketball team played a whirlwind Region 20 game against the visiting College of Southern Maryland Hawks Wednesday evening. With wild swings in scoring, AACC eventually fell to the Hawks, 70-60. Brandy Middleton led AACC with a career-high 22 points, scoring 16 in the first half.
Sydney Woodland added 21 points and five rebounds. Naomi Ray finished with a career-high 12 rebounds and was just short of a double-double with nine points.
Middleton gave AACC a one-point lead, 12-11, at the end of the first quarter by completing a three-point play. The Riverhawks then opened the second quarter on an 11-2 run to build up a 10-point lead on a Middleton three-pointer with 6:16 left in the stanza. It looked like back-to-back three-pointers by the Hawks with less than a minute left in the half would send the visitors to the locker room with the lead, but Middleton was sharp at the free throw line to keep AACC up by one headed into the break, 29-28.
The Hawks used a 14-3 run through the first seven minutes of the third to swing the momentum back in their favor and build up a 10-point advantage, 42-32. AACC cut the deficit to three on two occasions, but trailed by four, 45-41, at the end of the third.
The teams traded buckets throughout most of the fourth quarter with AACC unable to reduce the margin.
AACC is back in action on Wednesday, December 8, in a 5 pm Region 20 game at Harford Community College.
