RIPON, Wis. - Despite 27 points from Alison Leslie, the Ripon College Women's Basketball Team fell to visiting Carroll University, 72-61.
 
The Red Hawks, as a team, put on a shooting clinic from behind the arc, hitting 13-of-28 attempts in the game. Leslie (7-of-12), Bella Opelt (3-of-6), and Bonnie Jensen (2-of-2) combined to shoot 60% from three-point range and were the only players to reach double-digit scoring for Ripon. Aside from Leslie's 27, Opelt had 15 points, and Jensen had 10 to carry the bulk of the Red Hawk scoring load.
 
But Ripon, overall, converted just 40.7 percent of their field goal attempts while Carroll countered with 58.3 percent shooting from the field. The discrepancy was even larger in the second quarter, and during that 10-minute period, the game slipped away for Ripon. The Red Hawks shot just 17.6 percent in the second quarter and scored 10 points while Carroll was on absolute fire, shooting 12-of-14, hitting all four of their three-point attempts, and scoring 32 points to flip what was a 16-14 Ripon lead at the end of the first quarter into a 46-26 game at the break.
 
Ripon did not waver despite facing a 20-point deficit. The Red Hawks came out in the third quarter looking to attack and attack they did. Ripon opened the quarter on a 14-4 run and trimmed their deficit to just 10 points with 6:34 left in the third, but Carroll regrouped, halted the run, and Ripon trailed by double-digits heading into the fourth quarter.
 
The Red Hawks, again, kept chipping away at Carroll's lead in the fourth quarter, and despite getting it to single digits, 9 points, with a couple of minutes to play, Ripon would fall 72-61.
 
The Red Hawks, now 2-4, head to Illinois College on Saturday, December 3^rd for their first Midwest Conference game of the 2022-23 season. The conference opener is set to tip-off at 1:00 p.m.