WESTERVILLE — Graduate student Kathleen DeCarlo led the way with a double-double as the Otterbein women's basketball team fell 52-42 to No. 11 Baldwin Wallace in Ohio Athletic Conference action in its annual Play4Kay Pink Game on Saturday.

The Basics

• Records: Otterbein (8-9 overall, 4-6 OAC), Baldwin Wallace (16-1 overall, 10-0 OAC)
• Venue: Rike Center - Westerville, Ohio
• Saturday's Play4Kay Pink Game served to raise awareness and funding for all cancers affecting women. For more information, click here. To access the Cardinals' donation page, click here.

Otterbein Stat Leaders

• DeCarlo finished with 13 points and 10 rebounds in her first double-double of the season. She also had two steals.
• Sophomore Kyla Irby made a pair of 3-pointers and finished with 11 points.
• Senior Maizie King posted 10 points, four rebounds, three blocks and two steals.
• Sophomore Abby Rawlings added eight points, two steals and a team-high four assists.

Game Highlights

• First Quarter: Baldwin Wallace opened the game with a 12-4 run. The tempo slowed down until Irby and Rawlings drained back-to-back 3-pointers, cutting the deficit to just one with less than a minute remaining in the quarter. However, the Yellow Jackets managed to sink a layup in the final second, closing the quarter with a 14-11 lead.
• Second Quarter: The quarter featured four ties, with King starting things off by scoring back-to-back layups to give Otterbein the first lead of the game at 15-14. Baldwin Wallace responded with free throws to knot the score at 15-15 and again at 17-17. With under two minutes to go, Irby sank a clutch 3-pointer to bring it to 20-20. Baldwin Wallace closed out the quarter with free throws, edging ahead 22-21.
• Third Quarter: DeCarlo opened the quarter with a jumper to give the Cardinals a one-point edge. Midway through, Otterbein stretched its lead to five, 27-22. In the final two minutes, the teams exchanged leads, with the score tying at 28-28 and again at 31-31, which held as the quarter ended.
• Fourth Quarter: Rawlings started the final quarter with a jumper, giving the Cardinals a two-point edge, 33-31. Baldwin Wallace quickly answered, tying the game at 33-33 with free throws. The Yellow Jackets regained momentum, going on a run to build a seven-point lead, 41-34, with 4:55 left. Despite Otterbein's efforts to narrow the gap, Baldwin Wallace capitalized on free throws down the stretch to secure the 52-42 victory.
• Key Team Stats: Otterbein shot 30.8% from the field and was 3-of-17 (17.6%) from 3-point range. Baldwin Wallace shot 26.4% from the field and was 3-of-15 (20%) from 3-point range. The Cardinals were 7-of-12 (58.3%) from the free-throw line, while the Yellow Jackets were 21-of-26 (80.6%). Baldwin Wallace out-rebounded the Cardinals by a 49-30 margin.

Notables

• Irby has scored in double figures in 14 games this season and is averaging a team-high 14.4 points per game. She entered Saturday ranked fifth in the OAC in scoring average (14.6 points per game), first in free-throw percentage (88%), tied for third in free throws made (66) and tied for fifth in 3-pointers made (31).
• DeCarlo has scored in double figures in 10 games on the season and is averaging 10.4 points per game.
• Saturday marked the fourth time this season that King has scored in double figures.
• DeCarlo's 10 rebounds marked a single-game season high.
• Head coach Diana Noles is in her sixth year at Otterbein and has an all-time record of 71-61 at the helm of the Cardinals.
• Otterbein entered Saturday tied with Marietta for fifth in the OAC standings, while Baldwin Wallace was in first place with a two-game lead over a three-way tie for second between Capital, John Carroll and Ohio Northern.
• Baldwin Wallace is No. 11 in this week's D3hoops.com Top 25 poll and No. 12 in the WBCA NCAA Division III Coaches Poll.
• Baldwin Wallace holds a 20-8 edge in the series against Otterbein dating back to 2010 and has won four straight meetings and 11 of the past 12 dating back to 2019. The Cardinals' lone win over the Yellow Jackets in that span was a 58-55 victory in Westerville on Feb. 4, 2023. In the teams' prior meeting this season, on Dec. 7, Baldwin Wallace came away with a 69-48 win in Berea.