PROVIDENCE, R.I. – A return trip to Rhode Island was just the ticket.
 
Colgate captured its first win of the season with a 67-62 triumph over Brown. Sunday's victory marked the debut W for head coach Bill Cleary and staff, who opened their Colgate tenures with a double-overtime loss nine days ago across town at Providence.
 
The Raiders in this game rallied from a 15-point first-half deficit thanks to a 27-point third quarter. They then maintained the lead throughout the final 10 minutes and made seven of their final eight free throws down the stretch.
 
Mylah Chandler led three Raiders in double figures with a career-high 16 points and posted her first career double-double with 10 boards. Kateri Stone sparkled for the second straight game with 15 points, and Katie Curtis added 11 points to go with six boards, five assists and two steals.
 
Bottom Line
• Colgate 67, Brown 62
 
Won-Lost Records
• Colgate improved to 1-3.
• Brown fell to 2-2.
 
Quick Recap
• Brown scored the game's first six points and built a 19-6 advantage. The Bears led 21-11 at the first quarter break.
• Chandler kept Colgate close with 10 first-half points, but the hosts maintained a double-digit lead for most of the second quarter. Colgate pulled within 32-24 on a Layup by Stone and a free throw from Steph Poland, but a last-second 3-pointer from Brown's Shayna Mehta made it 35-24 at intermission.
• As the Raiders have done in three of their four games thus far, they burst from the locker room and took control in the third quarter.
• Colgate scored the first seven points of the second half, and the Raiders took their first lead at 40-39 on Stone's layup with 4:33 showing. Chelsey Koren's layup at the four-minute mark made it 42-39 and capped an 18-4 run.
• The teams traded baskets until a late Tori Pozsonyi hoop made it 51-49 Raiders heading to the fourth.
• Colgate built leads of 57-51 and 60-54 before Brown made one final push. Taylor Will made a layup and was fouled with a chance to tie the game at 63 with 24 seconds remaining.
• But Will missed and Colgate hit its final four free throws for the 67-62 margin. The Raiders over the final 1:09 were 7-of-8 at the stripe.
 
Facts & Figures
• Chandler was 8-of-13 from the floor and grabbed eight of her 10 rebounds on the defensive end.
• Colgate finished with a 43-41 rebounding edge and has outrebounded three of its four opponents thus far.
• Stone has 37 points over her last two games, including 5-of-10 shooting from downtown.
• Curtis continues to fill up the stat sheet. The senior guard through four games is second on the team in both scoring (10.8) and rebounding (5.3), and she leads with 11 assists and seven steals.
• Pozsonyi earned her first start of the season and responded with a career-high eight points.
• Colgate continued its sharp shooting at the free throw line, finishing 14-of-17. The Raiders lead the Patriot League at 78.6 percent.
• The Colgate scoring went like this: Chandler 16, Stone 15, Curtis 11, Koren 9, Pozsonyi 8, Rachel Thompson 4, Haley Greer 3 and Poland 1.
• The Raiders again were strong off the bench, posting a 45-10 scoring edge over the Bears.
• Brown's largest lead in the game was 15 on three occasions, the last time 32-17 with 3:11 left before half.
 
From the Source
• Colgate head coach Bill Cleary: (On the second-half comeback) "We were 0-3, down 15 on the road – it would have been easy to just ride it out and see what happens in the next game. But they kept making adjustments and they kept trusting the coaches.
 
"We have winners here. It's just a matter of teaching them how to win. Mylah, Chelsey and Kateri were all huge. They really responded well to what we've been telling them, as did the entire team.
 
"And talk about pressure. Tori Pozsonyi make two huge, huge, huge free throws when we were up by one point late. Those were pressure-packed, but she kept her focus and knocked them down."
 
Gate Grab Bag
• Attendance at Pizzitola Sports Center was 297.
 
Up Next
• Colgate is back in action Tuesday at Siena.
• The Saints are 0-2 after losses at No. 13 Syracuse and home to Hartford. The latter result came Saturday by an 80-76 count.
• Colgate defeated Siena 52-50 last year in Hamilton but still trails in the series, 16-2.
• Tipoff is 7 p.m., with Eric Malanoski on the call for 94 WXKZ-FM.