ST. LOUIS, Mo. (info taken from a Washington University press release) -- Despite a fine all-around performance from senior Hannah Cain (Gloucester, Mass./Gloucester) the Brandeis women's basketball team couldn't overcome a long scoreless drought as the Judges fell to ninth-ranked Washington University, 64-51. The Judges fall to 13-11 overall, 5-8 in the UAA, while the Bears improve to 22-2, 11-2 UAA. 

Cain finished the game with a team-high 12 points on 6-of-12 from the field. Eight of her 12 points came in the second half. She also grabbed seven rebounds and tied a career-high with five steals. Sophomore guard Frankie Pinto (San Clemente, Calif./San Clemente) added 11 points, six in the second half. Rookie Olivia Shaw (Saco, Maine/Thornton Acad.) led the Judges with eight rebounds and also blocked a career-high four shots. 

Washington got a game-high 23 points from senior Melissa Gilkey, who hit 6-of-17 from the field, but also hit 11-of-12 from the free throw line. The Bears outscored the Judges from the charity stripe, 21-9. Gilkey also pulled down eight rebounds, four on the offensive glass. Maddie Scheppers notched 12 points and a game-high nine rebounds, while Jordan Thompson scored 10 points and led all players with seven assists. 

Brandeis made four of its first five shots from the field to take an early 10-4 lead with 17:03 left in the first half. The Judges stretched their lead to 15-9 with 15:54 remaining in the half. WashU's defense held Brandeis scoreless as the Judges went 0-of-20 from the field over the next 10 minutes. During that stretch, the Bears went on a 17-0 run, including nine points by Gilkey and back-to-back three-pointers by Scheppers, to turn the deficit into a 24-15 lead with 5:58 left in the half.

Brandeis got to within seven (26-19), but a three-point play by Thompson and a jumper by Gilkey gave the Bears their largest lead of the half at 31-19 with 3:11 left. The Judges made both ends of a bonus free-throw opportunity to trim the lead to single digits (32-23) with less than a minute to play, before a driving layup by Thompson made it 34-23 in favor of WashU at halftime.

The Bears opened the second half with a 10-2 run to extend the lead to its largest of the game at 44-25 on a three-point play by junior Katybeth Biewen with 16:27 left in the game. The teams traded buckets and a jumper by senior Alyssa Johanson made it 56-39 with 7:31 to play. Brandeis scored six unanswered points to get to within 12 at 56-44 and force a WashU timeout with 5:43 left. Scheppers and Johanson hit back-to-back baskets to stretch the lead back to 60-44, before finishing the Bears finished with the 13-point win.

The Judges wrap up the 2015 regular season next Saturday at NYU at 2 p.m.