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HAMILTON – Two of the Patriot League's top talents met for what could be the final time Wednesday night at Cotterell Court.
 
Seniors Josie Stockill of Colgate and Kelsey Minato of Army West Point played to a 29-29 draw in the scoring column during Army's 78-55 triumph. Army's win was its 20th of the season in 22 tries, and the Black Knights remain in a first-place tie with Bucknell atop the Patriot League standings.
 
For Stockill, the 29 points marked a career high. She added nine rebounds and seven blocked shots – the latter figure tying her own Cotterell Court record by a Colgate women's basketball player.
 
Included was a 13-of-16 performance at the charity stripe that also set personal career highs for free throws made and attempted. The Raiders as a team were 18-of-24 and improved to 72.2 percent for the season, or 0.2 ahead of last year's record pace.
 
Stockill increased her career numbers to 975 points, 566 rebounds and 222 blocked shots. She needs 25 points to become the 20th Raider to reach 1,000 career points, and 26 rebounds to climb into Colgate's all-time top 10.

She's already the career blocked shots leader, now 52 ahead of second-place Leandra Fuller '05. Her next block moves her into solo fourth place on the Patriot League's all-time list.
 
Paige Kriftcher scored 10 points in a career-high 38 minutes to continue her steady play, while Katie Curtis pitched in a career-best six assists.
 
Army's Minato, meanwhile, became the all-time leading men's or women's basketball scorer in Black Knight history, improving her career total to 2,336 points. She needs just 127 more to break the Patriot League career record of 2,462 held by Bucknell's Molly Creamer (1999-2003).
 
Colgate is on the road Saturday against Bucknell in a 2 p.m. tip.
 
Bottom Line
• Army West Point 78, Colgate 55
 
Won-Lost Records
• Colgate is now 4-18 overall and 2-10 in the Patriot League.
• Army improved to 20-2 and 11-1.
 
How It Happened
• Army broke in front but Colgate used a 6-0 Stockill run to take its first lead of the game at 11-10 with 4 minutes remaining in the opening quarter.
• The Black Knight lead was 20-15 at the end of the first thanks largely to a 15-4 rebounding edge.
• Army's lead fluctuated in the high single digits and was 34-25 when Stockill connected on the second of two free-throw attempts with 1:56 showing.
• But Minato caught fire and scored eight straight, highlighted by a pair of 3-pointers, to make it 42-25 Knights at intermission.
• Stockill had 16 to that point and Minato 15.
• Colgate earned a 19-16 scoring edge in the third quarter to keep the game in the 12- to 16-point range. Army led 58-44 heading to the fourth.
• Stockill scored her final six points in the fourth quarter but couldn't slow the Army offense.
 
Facts & Figures
• Colgate outrebounded Army 27-24 over the final three quarters to pull within 39-31 by game's end.
• Army is the Patriot League's top-shooting team and the Knights bettered their season average by five percentage points, finishing at 49.2 percent on 31-of-63. Army was 7-of-16 from downtown.
• Colgate shot 35.4 percent and was 3-of-12 from 3-point distance.
• The Raiders claimed an edge at the free-throw line, finishing 18-of-24 to Army's 9-of-16. The Raiders made their last six attempts and just missed their team season-high of 19 made at Boston University.
• Colgate as a team is up to 72.2 percent for the season and ahead of last year's record pace of 72.0.
 
More Key Info
• Stockill's scoring by quarters went 10, 6, 7 and 6.
• In addition to Stockill's 29 points, the Colgate scoring column showed Kriftcher 10, Curtis 6, Ariel Etheridge 5, Mackenzie Carroll 3 and Julia Barcello 2.
• Barcello earned her second start of the season and finished with five rebounds. She's third on the team in that category at 3.5 and is averaging 6.5 over her last four games.
• Kriftcher in her last four games has either set or tied her career-high for minutes played, with 36, 36, 37 and now 38. She also leads the team with 15 games scoring in double figures.
• Curtis set her career assist high with six, topping the five she had at both Navy and Holy Cross.
• Etheridge contributed a career-high three steals.
• Stockill now has seven games this season with five or more blocks, including a pair of home seven-block games (Jan. 2 vs. American) to go with her record 13 at Lafayette on Dec. 22.
• Stockill also is up to ninth on the Patriot League's all-time season blocked shot list with 86. She has a chance at the record of 112 but has to stay on her current pace of 3.9 per game.
• Stockill's previous free-throw highs were 10 made last year against American and 10 attempted on two occasions.
• She leads the team this season with five 20-point games.
 
From the Source
• Colgate head coach Nicci Hays Fort (On the game): "Josie had a great game; she came to play. She was super-tough, super-physical and I'm really proud of her. We challenged them to be tough and Josie stepped up. We had some tough performances, just not enough."
 
Gate Grab Bag
• Attendance at Cotterell Court was 481.
 
Up Next
• Colgate plays Saturday at Bucknell.
• The Bison are tied for first place with Army at 11-1 in the Patriot League. They are 17-6 overall after Wednesday's 67-54 win at Lehigh.
• Bucknell defeated Colgate 71-51 last month in Hamilton.
• Tipoff Saturday is 2 p.m.

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