Brunswick, Maine - Molly Brown scored a game-high 27 points to lead the Bates College women's basketball team to an 80-57 win over Clark University on day two of the Coastal Maine Classic on Wednesday at Bowdoin College.

The Bobcats end the tourney with a 1-1 mark and improve to 7-4 on the season while the Cougars finish the classic winless and fall to 3-7 on the year and have now dropped three straight and four of their last five.

Brown connected on 9-15 from the field, including four three-pointers, while also adding six rebounds, four steals and three assists in her 30 minutes of action.

The Cougars were ahead 19-18 after a pair of Sam O'Gara (Worcester, Mass.) free throws with a little less than nine minutes to play in the opening stanza, but the Bobcats closed the half on a 24-10 run to take a commanding 42-29 lead into halftime.

Clark was still within striking distance at 49-38 early in the second half when the Bobcats went on a game-sealing 20-4 run – a burst that featured triples from Brown, Jackie Welch, Lyse Hensaw and a conventional three-point play from Allie Coppola. When the smoke cleared, Bates was well in command at 69-42. Their lead would balloon to as many as 29 at 74-45 late in the game.

In addition to Brown's big afternoon, Coppola scored 15 points and grabbed 12 rebounds for Bates while Chelsea Nason scored 13 points for the Bobcats.

O'Gara led all Clark scorers with 17 points, four steals and three assists, while Aretha Sullivan (Worcester, Mass.), who was named to the All-Classic team, kept the Cougars close with ten opening half points and finished with 15 for the contest. Victoria Russo (Arlington, Mass.), meanwhile, finished with a team-best 11 rebounds in just 19 minutes of action.

Clark will return to the hardwood on Saturday when they visit Emerson College in a key New England Women's And Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) matchup with the Lions.