BRIDGEWATER, Va. – With 17 minutes remaining in regulation, the Bridgewater Eagles (2-3, 0-2 ODAC) women's basketball team held a 17 point advantage over visiting Randolph-Macon. Across the game's final 17 minutes, the Yellow Jackets outscored BC by 21 points to win an afternoon Old Dominion Athletic Conference game in Nininger Hall.

Bridgewater dominated the defending ODAC champions early as the Eagles jumped out to a 21-4 lead with 13:30 remaining in the first half.

Randolph-Macon (4-1, 1-1 ODAC) used a run of its own to crawl back to within seven with seconds left in the first half, but the Eagles tallied the half's final bucket off of a Kristin Bosserman layup to give BC a 41-32 halftime advantage.

BC was able to push its lead to a second half high of 14 before a stingy Randolph-Macon defense and opportunistic offense brought the Yellow Jackets to within seven with 15:11 to play.

Following the Randolph-Macon run, junior guard Jordan Burkholder picked up her fourth foul, removing from the game the key component of the Eagles offense.

With a small guard oriented offense in the game, the Eagles were able to hold the lead until a pair of Taylor Wieczorek free throws knotted the game up at 62 a piece with 6:34 to play.

Randolph-Macon would use solid free throw shooting and a stingy defense to outscore the Eagles 19-10 over the final six and change to escape Nininger Hall with a 81-72 ODAC victory.

Bridgewater was led by Burkholder's team-high 22. The Bridgewater, Va. native also tallied four rebounds, four assists and four steals before fouling out in the game's final minutes. BC had two other players in double figures, with Bosserman chipped in 14 and Jenny Logan netting an additional 11.

On the glass, Logan's six boards led the Eagles.

Randolph-Macon was led by a 24 point performance from Maggie Roy. Reigning ODAC Player of the Year Molly Ariail netted a monster double-double with 20 points and a game-high 14 boards.

The Yellow-Jackets out-rebounded Bridgewater 41-to-30 and outshot BC at a 47-to-40 clip.

Twenty-three of Randolph-Macon's 49 second half points came from the stripe.

“The game was just a tale of two halves. On our end, you can't let a team score 23 points from the foul line in the second half, you don't win many games that way,” commented longtime Bridgewater head coach Jean Willi.

Bridgewater now takes an extended break for the Christmas holiday before returning to action on January 3, 2010. On the third, BC takes on Randolph on the road with the opening tip slated for 3:00 p.m.