HAMILTON – Colgate played its second straight service academy to the wire and suffered its second straight two-point loss in the closing seconds.
 
Kelsey Minato's jumper with four seconds remaining lifted Army to a 64-62 win over the Raiders on Cotterell Court here Wednesday night. This past Saturday, Navy scored at the buzzer to slip past Colgate, 65-63.
 
Since the historic 76-71 win at Holy Cross on Jan. 7, Colgate has lost by eight points to American (now 7-0) and five to Boston University, in addition to the latest two-point setbacks. For the season, the 2-16 Raiders have exactly half their losses by eight points or less.
 
Carole Harris led the home side with 20 points. It was her second 20-point game of the season and her best since scoring 24 in the Dec. 10 win over Binghamton.
 
Paige Kriftcher added 12 points and Missy Repoli 11.
 
Army was led by Minato's 28. The Patriot League's scoring leader was 5-of-7 from 3-point distance and 9-of-10 at the free-throw line.
 

Colgate is at Loyola this Saturday in a 2 p.m. start.
 
Bottom Line
• Army 64, Colgate 62
 
Won-Lost Records
• Colgate is now 2-16 overall and 1-6 in the Patriot League.
• Army improves to 12-5 and 4-3.
 
Facts & Figures
• Colgate made four of its last five field goal attempts and rallied from a seven-point deficit over the last 4:37.
• But Army's Kelsey Minato converted the game's final basket with just four seconds remaining to lift the Black Knights to a 12-of-20 shooting performance in the second half.
• Army for the game shot 45 percent on 18-of-40, which means the Knights were just 6-of-20 in the opening half.
• Colgate led 29-25 at the break.
• And for the second time during Colgate's recent run of foul luck, the opponent made a sizzling 8-of-13 from beyond the 3-point line. On consecutive Wednesdays, Boston University and Army both shot 61.5 percent from downtown to help them to close wins over the Raiders.
• The Knights were 20-of-26 from the free-throw line.
• Colgate finished at 44 percent on 22-of-50. The Raiders were 4-of-11 from 3-point distance and 14-of-21 at the free-throw line.

• Rebounds were even at 29 apiece, and turnovers were nearly a wash. Army committed 12 and Colgate 11, and both teams had four steals.
• The Raiders had a 14-0 first-half advantage on points in the paint, and it ended 24-6. Bench points also favored Colgate, 15-6.
 
More Key Info
• Colgate's scoring went like this: Carole Harris 20, Paige Kriftcher 12, Missy Repoli 11, Josie Stockill 7, Mariah Jones 5, Randyll Butler 4 and Ariel Etheridge 3.
• Since making 2-of-8 free throws Jan. 14 at Boston University, Harris has made 10 of her last 11 from the stripe. She was 6-of-7 in this game.
• Harris also grabbed a game-high seven rebounds, and Jones tied for game honors with four assists.
• Kriftcher knocked down a pair of 3-pointers and is 11-of-17 from beyond the arc in Patriot League play. She's also scored in double-figures in five of her last six games.
• Repoli is the team's scoring leader in conference at 11.7. The senior is riding a string of five straight games with double-digit points for the first time as a collegian.
• Repoli's 3-pointer in the game was the 146th of her career, tying her with Sami Kozlowski (2008-11) for third all-time at Colgate.
• Kelsey Minato paced the Knights with 28 points. The two-time Patriot League Player of the Year leads the conference at 22.4 per game.

• She was 7-of-13 from the field, including 5-of-7 from three. Minato added 9-of-10 at the line – only slightly above her career average of 88.8 percent.
• Minato tied for team honors with five rebounds and also handed out four assists while playing all 40 minutes.
• There were 12 lead changes in the game and seven ties. Colgate led by as much as 29-23 late in the first half, and Army went on top by seven on a couple of occasions late in the second.
 
Turning Point
• Trailing 48-45, Army put together a 12-2 run over a nearly six-minute stretch midway in the second half to build a 57-50 advantage with 5:28 to play.
• It was a team effort for the Black Knights as five different players scored.
• Colgate rallied to tie the game at 62-62 with 23 seconds left on Jones' running jumper in the paint.
• But Army had the last real shot and made it count on Minato's 12-footer from left of the free-throw lane with just four seconds remaining.
 
From the Source
• Colgate head coach Nicci Hays Fort: (On tying the game at 62-62) "I didn't call timeout for a reason; you don't want to let Army set up a defense. We called a play and when that broke down, we just told them to attack the basket. And they did.
"Mariah made a great shot, so I was really proud of her."
(On the final Army possession) "We were going to switch everything and, obviously, we wanted to double Minato."
(On going the length of the court with four seconds left) "It's more (time) than you think. We've done some things in practice – some quick-hitting stuff in practice – and Mariah got a pretty good shot. Missy might have been open; I was kind of shielded.
"But we just wanted to get a screen for our shooter and maybe make something happen."
(On the game) "We've just got to get a little tougher. I told the team that we don't have to fix the last-second things. We have to fix getting down by nine or getting down by 16 – that's what we have to fix.
"These games shouldn't come down to last-second shots and a lot of them have. But it's been because we've had lulls of about three minutes where the other team has exploited us. We haven't gotten tougher, haven't gotten grittier, haven't gotten stops or gotten a good shot instead of forcing something. That's the difference right now."
"We've shown great fight, great grit. But we shouldn't have to do that if we get those stops in that two- or three-minute time frame.
(On the next two away from home) "It doesn't get easier. We've got two tough road games coming back to back. (Loyola) was a game we won at the buzzer last year, and they're going to be ready for us. They beat Navy, and we're going to have our hands full."
 
Gate Grab Bag
• Attendance at Cotterell Court was 477.
 
Up Next
• Colgate is back on the road this weekend at Loyola.
• The Greyhounds are 5-13 overall and 3-4 in the Patriot League after losing 66-49 Wednesday night at Bucknell. They do own a 55-49 home win over second-place Navy.
• Start time Saturday in Baltimore is 2 p.m.