WILLIAMSBURG, Va. - The William & Mary women's basketball team suffered a 67-50 setback to Drexel on Sunday afternoon, snapping a three-game winning streak. W&M (11-3, 2-1 CAA) cut a 15-point halftime deficit to as little as four in the third quarter, but the Dragons (6-8, 2-1 CAA) responded with a 14-3 run led by Sarah Curran to put the game away.
 
Sophomore Abby Rendle led W&M with a career-high 23 points on 11-of-19 shooting from the floor. Classmate Jeanne Gaumont also added a career performance, scoring 10 points to go with a team-high five rebounds. Gaumont was 3-of-6 from 3-point range, blocked two shots and took a pair of charges.
 
Trailing 37-22 at the break, the Green and Gold ripped of and 11-0 to start the second half to cut the gap to four. The Tribe hit four of its first five from the floor during the stretch, including all three 3-pointers. Back-to-back triples from Gaumont narrowed the margin to 37-33 with 11:05 remaining.
 
Drexel's Sarah Curran was the answer for the visitors. She scored seven of the Dragon's 13 points in the third quarter to stymy the W&M spurt. After W&M closed the gap to 43-39 on a freshman Bianca Boggs' lay-up at the 2:51 mark, Curran canned a 3-pointer to push the margin back to seven and start a 14-3 Drexel run.
 
The Tribe deficit was 50-42 at the end of three quarters, but Curran put any thought of a comeback to rest, scoring the first nine points of the final 10 minutes. Her lay-up at the 5:49 mark extend the Dragons' lead to what proved to be the final margin to 17 at 59-42. W&M could get no closer than 15 the rest of the way.
 
Curran scored a career-high 31 points on 12-of-18 shoot, including 4-of-7 from 3-point range. In the final 20 minutes, she tallied 19 of Drexel's 30 points, hitting 8-of-9 from the field, including all three of her 3-point attempts. Rachel Pearson was the only other DU player in double figures with 13 points. Meghan Creighton just missed an unconventional double-double with a team-high nine rebounds and 10 assists.
 
W&M finished the contest shooting 37.7 percent (20-of-53) from the field, including 6-of-20 (30 percent) from 3-point range. The Green and Gold assisted on all 20 of its made field goals, including a career-high seven from Boggs, who also chipped in three steals. The Tribe's third-leading scorer and leading rebounder junior Alexandra Masaquel was limited to just 12 minutes and only three rebounds in just one half of play due to illness.
 
Drexel connected on 40.3 percent (25-of-62) from the floor and 33.3 percent (7-of-21) from 3-point range. The Dragons controlled the glass, outrebounding W&M 45-26 and outscoring the home team, 10-1, in second-chance points. Drexel dished out 21 assists on its 25 made field goals and was a near perfect 10-of-11 (90.9 percent) from the free throw line.
 
The Dragons broke open the game midway through the opening quarter with eight straight points. Curran and Creighton canned back-to-back 3-pointers to give DU a 12-4 lead with 3:04 remaining in the first period. Jessica Pellechio closed the opening 10 minutes with two straight jumpers to push the visitors lead to 19-9 at the first break.
 
An 11-2 run from Drexel spanning the end of the first and start of the second quarter extend the margin to 15 points. Pearson's 3-pointer at the just over three minutes into the frame pushed the Dragon advantage to 26-11.
 
W&M drew within 11, 33-22, on a Rendle lay-up with 2:54 left in the opening half. Drexel though re-established its 15-point cushion with the final four points of the second quarter.
 
The Tribe hits the road for a northern CAA swing, traveling to Northeastern and Hofstra next week. W&M faces the Huskies on Friday, Jan. 15, at 7 p.m., before trekking to Hempstead, N.Y., to meet the Pride at 1 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 17. Both games will be broadcast on CAA.TV with the Hofstra contest being televised on the American Sports Network.