BOXSCORE MINNEAPOLIS -- Rallying from a 13-point second-half deficit, the Augsburg College women's basketball team scored a 51-48 victory over visiting Carleton College in a Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference contest on Wednesday evening at Si Melby Hall.

Center Jessica Lillquist (SO, Sebeka, Minn.) led all players with 16 points, while pulling down five rebounds. Jill Tichy (SR, Excelsior, Minn./Minnetonka HS) had 11 points, three rebounds, three assists and two steals for Augsburg (7-4 overall, 4-4 overall), which has now won four games in a row and five of its last six contests.

Marie Fitzgerald (SO, Fort Atkinson, Wis.) returned to the Auggie lineup, after missing three games while with the Auggie women's soccer team on its trip to Nicaragua last week, and contributed eight points, a career-high 10 rebounds, two assists and a steal. Fellow guard Jenna Orth (SO, Melrose, Minn.) pulled down eight rebounds -- one off her career-high of nine set in the Auggies' win over Hamline last Wednesday -- while claiming four steals, two blocks and scoring four points. Jolene Blood (SR, Mounds View, Minn./Irondale HS) scored seven points with five assists and two steals.

Carleton (4-8 overall, 2-7 MIAC) was led by Sylar Tsutsui (JR, Northridge, Calif./Harvard-Westlake HS), who scored 14 points with three assists, two steals and three rebounds. Emma Purfeerst (SR, River Falls, Wis.) scored 13 points with nine rebounds, and Claire Thallon (FY, Eugene, Ore./South Eugene HS) and Jenny Ramey (SR, Cottage Grove, Minn./New Life Academy HS) scored eight points each, with Ramey adding seven rebounds and four steals.

Carleton used a 10-0 run over a 5:01 span to take a 20-12 lead with 9:19 left in the first half, and maintained the lead for the rest of the first half, taking a 30-25 lead into the locker room at halftime. The Knights took their biggest lead of the game at the 16:59 mark of the second half, scoring eight straight points -- four points each from Purfeerst and Thallon -- to take a 38-25 advantage.

But the Auggies clawed their way back into the game on a 14-0 run over the next 6:26, with Tichy scoring six points and Blood scoring four in the run, to give the Auggies a 39-38 lead with 10:33 left.

A Ramey three-pointer with 7:33 left gave the Knights a 45-41 lead, but it would be the last field goal that Carleton would connect on in the game. Augsburg outscored the Knights 10-3 down the stretch, with Lillquist scoring six points in the span, to claim the come-from-behind win.

Augsburg shot 40.0 percent (22-of-55) from the field and connected on all four of its free throw attempts, while Carleton shot 36.7 percent (18-of-49) from the field and 8-of-11 from the free-throw line. Carleton outrebounded Augsburg by a 34-30 margin.

Both teams return to MIAC play on Saturday (1/18) at 1 p.m., with Augsburg playing at Bethel and Carleton hosting Saint Benedict.