FINAL SCORE: Columbia 73, Vermont 66
BURLINGTON, Vt. – Hanna Crymble scored 16 points in the second half, but that was not enough to carry out a Catamounts comeback. Vermont lost for the first time at Patrick Gymnasium this season by a final score of 73-66 to Columbia on Sunday afternoon.
 
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Coming off a 37-point and 13-rebound performance (both career-highs), Crymble scored 18 points on the game with six rebounds. Senior co-captains Sydney Smith (5-11 FG, 1-5 3-point FG) and Kristina White (4-5 FG, 2-3 3-point FG) scored 15 and 10 points respectively for Vermont.
 
The lead changed 11 times in the game, all in the first half. Columbia led 36-30 at halftime and Vermont ended up making it a 1-point game by the middle of the fourth quarter before the Lions pulled away for good. In the final minute, the Catamounts recorded a rebound down three points but Abby Lee stole the ball which drew a foul and a trip to the line that put the Lions up for good. 
 
Columbia's all-time leading scorer, senior forward Camille Zimmerman, scored 28 points and grabbed 13 rebounds. She was aided by Janiya Clemmons and Abby Lee, who scored 12 points each for the Lions.
 
The Catamounts did manage to out-rebound the Lions 41-40, for three more steals with seven on the game and win the points in the paint battle 30-24. UVM head coach Chris Day was satisfied with his team's spirit on Sunday afternoon. 

"I loved our effort today to keep fighting when we got down, "said Day. "I told our team we have to get our program to win those types of games instead of just praising how hard we played. We still have a lot of growing to do. That's why everyone has to trust the process. But we will be ready to compete again against a talented American team on Friday."
 
Junior forward Candice Wright registered two blocked shots in the game and tied Katie McNamara's ('05) UVM all-time individual record with 102 blocks for her career. Wright is projected to become the lone all-time leader in one of the Catamounts final two November home games this coming weekend.
 
Vermont is off until Thanksgiving on Thursday before it hosts the TD Bank Classic at Patrick Gym on Nov. 24 and 25. The Catamounts host American University on Friday Nov. 24 at 5 p.m. UVM will play either James Madison or Villanova on the 25th. If the Catamounts beat American, they will play the winner of the other game and vice versa.

To purchase tickets for the TD Bank Classic, click here for Friday's games (which starts with UVM's 5 p.m. tip-off with American) and here for Saturday's championship and consolation matchups. 

If you are unable to make it to either or both games, you can watch the TD Bank Classic online via ESPN3 by logging on through your cable provider. The contests can also be heard on WVMT-AM 620 and on CatamounTV.com with Logan Ratick. Radio pregame coverage for Friday's game against American starts at 4:40 p.m.