Box Score

John Carroll has found out this season that winning streaks and Yellow Jackets don't mix well together.

For the second time this year, a lengthy run of JCU victories came to an end at the hands of Baldwin-Wallace, as a rough first half contributed largely to a 71-54 setback Wednesday night in Berea, Ohio.

On January 14, a season-long five-game streak ended when the Jackets descended upon University Heights and came away with a 67-52 triumph.

Tonight, it was not much different other than how much colder the Blue Streaks were as far as field goal shooting was concerned.

Baldwin-Wallace opened the game by scoring 13 of the first 15 points as JCU missed its first 11 shots. Sadie Zander would break the dry spell with back-to-back baskets that cut the Yellow Jackets advantage to 13-6 with 9:29 to play.

That would be as close as the contest would be the rest of the night. Baldwin-Wallace would end the half on a 25-6 run in which the Blue Streaks managed just one field goal. John Carroll ended the first half with a stat line that read 3-28 (.107) from the field, 0-4 from three-point range and 5-8 (.625) from the free throw line. 

Trailing 38-11 at the break the Blue Streaks were hoping for better times in the second half, but those times never came. John Carroll would trail by as much as 33 points before bringing the margin back down to 23 by game's end.

Ariel Brough and Mariah Strayer each scored 10 points as Baldwin-Wallace College (18-6, 13-4 OAC) remained one game behind Capital for first place in the league standings. The Yellow Jackets won the battle of the boards with a 48-31 margin.

John Carroll (13-11, 8-9 OAC), which remained in a tie for sixth place with Otterbein, was paced by 15 points from Laura Gruber and 14 from Caitlin Hubach as the duo accounted for more than half of John Carroll's 51 points.