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Hunt's Last-Second Heroics Lead Eagles to 58-57 Win Over Colgate
Hunt leads AU with 24 points, including game-winning shot at buzzer

Junior forward Chanel Hunt scored a season-high 24 points and hit the game-winning jumper at the buzzer in a 58-57 victory over Colgate Friday night.

Jan. 23, 2004 | Box Score

HAMILTON, N.Y. – American University’s Chanel Hunt (Raleigh, N.C./Ravenscroft) hit a fallaway jumper from the right baseline with 0.5 seconds left in a 58-57 victory over host Colgate Friday night at Cotterell Court in Hamilton, N.Y.

Colgate, clinging to a 57-56 lead with 12 seconds remaining, had a chance to seal a win when Meghan Curtin headed the line for two shots. However, the 6-1 sophomore guard missed both of her tries and Joanna Barnes (Washington, D.C./Dunbar/Fresno St.) corralled the loose-ball rebound. Hunt drove it the length of the floor, and the Eagles called timeout, setting up the final shot.

Hunt was the answer for the Eagles all game, hitting nine of her 18 shots and scoring a season-high 24 points. She also ripped down seven boards and hit six-of-eight free throws.

With the score tied at 10 at the 14:40 mark of the first stanza, Colgate raced out to a 14-point lead with a 16-2 run over the next six minutes. But American rebounded and pulled within nine at the half.

In the second stanza, AU slowly whittled the Raiders’ lead down to one several times, but could not get over the hump until the 1:34 mark of the second period. It was the Eagles’ first lead since three minutes into the game.

Both teams traded the lead, with Hunt and Colgate’s Emily Braseth trading buckets, until Hunt hit her last shot to win the game.

For the Eagles, who improve to 8-8 and 3-1 in the Patriot League, Kim Salem (Oakville, Ontario/St. Thomas Aquinas) had 11 points and five rebounds.

Braseth led the Raiders with 16 points and nine rebounds. Colgate falls to 9-7 on the season and 2-2 in the Patriot League.

The Eagles return to action Sunday, Jan. 25 at noon, when they square off against perennial Patriot League favorite Holy Cross.