BETHLEHEM, Pa. – Freshman Allison Schwertner scored a team high 10 points, but the No. 8-seed Boston University women's basketball program saw its season conclude with a 62-44 loss to No. 1-seed Lehigh on Monday evening at Stabler Arena.
 
BU (12-19, 5-13 PL) committed 20 turnovers in a game that the Mountain Hawks (25-6, 15-3 PL) led for all but 1:05. With the result, Lehigh advances to the semifinal round to face No. 5-seed Holy Cross on Thursday, March 13.
 
Schwertner scored all 10 of her points in the first half and matched sophomore Sisi Bentley for the team lead with seven rebounds. Senior Alex Giannaros and sophomore Inés Monteagudo Pardo each tallied seven points.
 
Maddie Albrecht and Lily Fandre each dropped 16 points to pace the Mountain Hawks. Ella Stemmer added 11 points.
 
HOW IT HAPPENED

• Lehigh raced out to a 10-2 lead in the opening 4:06 with the help of three-point plays from Albrecht's and-1 and a Fandre three.
• BU limited the Mountain Hawks to just one field goal in the first quarter's final 3:49 as Schwertner and junior Anete Adler combined for three layups to close the gap to 16-10 after 10 minutes.
• Sophomore Audrey Ericksen canned a left corner three-pointer off Monteagudo's cross-court dish, then Monteagudo nailed her own triple from the right wing to slash the Terrier deficit to 20-16 with 7:15 left in the second quarter.
• However, Lehigh responded with a 10-2 on five points from Fandre and Belle Bramer's nostalgic three-point play to build a 30-18 advantage.
• Trailing 35-24 at halftime, Giannaros opened the third quarter with a step-back jumper on the right elbow. The Mountain Hawks countered with a 10-0 burst that Giannaros halted with a three-pointer with 4:52 on the clock, making it a 45-29 contest.
• With 1:51 remaining in the frame, Monteagudo drained a corner three, then Bentley put back her own miss 46 seconds later to bring BU within 12, 50-38.
• Sophomore Bella McLaughlin scored both Terrier shots from the field in the fourth quarter, but they occurred over five-and-a-half minutes apart as Lehigh led by as many as 20 points in the stanza.

STATS

• BU finished with a higher field goal percentage than Lehigh at 37.8 percent, compared to 35.1 percent. However, the Mountain Hawks had 12 more shots.
• The Terriers forced Lehigh to shoot 21.7 percent (5-for-23) from three-point range.
• The Mountain Hawks turned BU's 20 turnovers into 21 points.
• Six different Terriers scored at least five points.
• BU held a 19-13 advantage in bench points. 

NOTES

• Senior Natalie Jasper and Giannaros will graduate from Boston University in the spring.
• Giannaros, the first four-year letterwinner at BU under head coach Melissa Graves, concludes her career with 1,369 points and 233 three-pointers on 41.5 percent shooting.
• Those numbers rank sixth, third and second in program history.
• Schwertner finishes her freshman campaign with 11 games in double figures as she ranked second on the team in points per game.
• BU's winning streak in the Patriot League quarterfinal round ends at five games, marking the first time in Graves' tenure that the Terriers did not reach the semifinals.
• Lehigh moves ahead in the all-time series, 14-13, and improves to 2-0 against BU in the Patriot League Tournament.