HAMILTON – The Raiders were right in this one.
 
Colgate trailed Loyola 47-46 entering the fourth quarter but saw the Greyhounds score the first 18 points of the period and post a 65-49 decision Saturday at Cotterell Court.
 
The Raiders had just won both of the middle quarters – 18-15 and 18-16. The third stanza was particularly competitive, with four ties and four lead changes.
 
But Loyola closed the third-period scoring on a Jeneh Perry layup with 38 seconds left to take that 47-46 advantage into the fourth.
 
The Greyhounds then began the final period with consecutive 3-pointers from Colleen Marshall and Lisa Mirarchi on their way to 7-of-12 shooting in the final quarter and a season-high 50.9 percent for the game.
 
Colgate didn't break Loyola's 18-0 run until Katie Curtis sank a 3-pointer with 2:36 remaining to close out the scoring.
 
Curtis scored 10 and Josie Stockill 13 to lead the Raiders. Stockill added eight boards and four blocked shots to extend her season record total to 76 blocks.
 
Marshall scored a game-high 27 for Loyola and Perry added a double-double with 15 points and 11 rebounds.
 
The Raiders are off until next Saturday when they travel to American for a 2 p.m. tip.
 
Bottom Line
• Loyola 65, Colgate 49
 
Won-Lost Records
• Colgate is now 4-14 overall and 2-6 in the Patriot League.
• Loyola improved to 8-11 and 5-3.
 
How It Happened
• Loyola scored the game's first 6-0 points and led 16-10 at the end of the first quarter.
• The Greyhounds scored 10 points in that period off six Colgate turnovers.
• But trailing 27-17, Colgate reeled off 11 straight points to take a 28-27 edge. Chelsey Koren knocked down a 3-ball and Curtis closed the run with a steal and 3-pointer to put the Raiders in front for the first time.
• Loyola recovered to score two buckets in the final 1:06 and went the locker room leading 31-28.
• Paige Kriftcher nailed a 3-pointer to spark a personal 5-point run by the senior guard as Colgate closed to within 40-38 midway in the third.
• The Raiders pushed back into the lead at 44-42 on Mylah Chandler's layup with 2:51 showing.
• Loyola's Perry scored the final basket of the third quarter to make it 47-46 and spark what would become a 20-0 Greyhounds run stretching into the fourth quarter.
 
Facts & Figures
• Loyola shot the ball well in all four quarters, including 7-of-11 and 7-of-12 efforts in the second and fourth periods, respectively.
• Their 50.9 percent for the game (27-of-53) was a season-high.
• The Raiders 7-of-11 from the floor in the third quarter but just 1-of-12 in the fourth, finishing at 32.1 percent for the game.
• Colgate compiled a 33-32 rebounding edge.
• The Raiders had their best game of the season at the free-throw line, finishing 10-of-11. That performance boosted Colgate from 70.1 percent to 71.1 percent for the season.
• The Raiders last year set a program record at 72.0 percent.
• Colgate committed 17 turnovers and the Greyhounds posted a 29-13 edge in points-off-turnovers.
 
Stockill Statcast
• Stockill scored 13 points and upped her collegiate total to 911. She's attempting to become the 20th member of Colgate's career 1,000-point club.
• She also has a shot at climbing into the Colgate career top-10 for rebounding. The senior captain grabbed eight boards Saturday and has 536 for her career. She needs 56 more for top-10 status and 64 to reach 600.
• Stockill's four blocked shots Saturday upped her Colgate season record total to 76. She broke her own previous mark of 68, set last year, during Wednesday game at Boston U.
• She leads all of Division I in blocked shots with a 4.2 average that is just ahead of Chattanooga's Jasmine Joyner at 3.9.
 
More Key Info
• Colgate's scoresheet looked like this: Stockill 13, Curtis 10, Kriftcher 7, Koren 6, Chandler 4, Kateri Stone 4, Julia Barcello 2, Summer King 2 and Tori Pozsonyi 1.
• In addition to Stockill's eight rebounds, Pozsonyi grabbed five. She has 22 in the last four games and is up to third on the team at 3.3.
• Pozsonyi also handed out a career-high four assists to lead the Raiders.
• Curtis had three assists and three steals. She's the Colgate season leader with 23 steals and second with 39 assists.
• For Loyola's Marshall, the 27 points missed by one her season high but were an individual high against the Raiders this season. She added five steals, five assists and five rebounds.
 
Turning Point
• See the opening paragraphs above.
 
From the Source
• Colgate head coach Nicci Hays Fort (On the game): "We won the third quarter, so we felt really good about that. And then we just went super-flat. All the credit to Loyola. Colleen Marshall made some huge shots in the second half and fourth quarter.
 
"We were just really flat offensively, defensively and rebounding in the fourth quarter."
 
Listen to the rest of Hays Fort's comments HERE.
 
Gate Grab Bag
• Attendance at Cotterell Court was 512.
 
Up Next
• The Patriot League has a scheduled off week until Saturday, although because of the East Coast snowstorm there will be makeup games played Tuesday in Worcester and Wednesday in Bethlehem.
• Colgate's next opponent is American in Washington next Saturday. The Eagles won 49-37 in Hamilton earlier this month and are 4-14 overall, 2-5 in the Patriot League. They play Tuesday at Holy Cross.
• Tipoff Saturday from Bender Arena is 2 p.m.