WILLIMANTIC, Conn. – The Castleton University women's basketball team had its three-game winning streak come to an end on Saturday, falling to Eastern Connecticut State 70-46 in road Little East Conference action.
 
Castleton (14-7, 7-5 LEC) shot 28.1 percent as a team (18-of-64) with four threes, while Eastern hit at a 43.1 percent clip (25-of-58) with seven triples. Eastern also hit 13-of-15 at the free-throw line. Eastern won the rebound battle 47-31 but turned it over 15 times to Castleton's seven turnovers.
 
Elise Magro led Castleton with 13 points on the afternoon, adding five assists, three rebounds and two steals to her line. Liz Bailey was efficient in getting her nine points, shooting 4-of-5 from the floor. Kelly Vuz and Maggie McKearin had seven points each, with Vuz chipping in three rebounds and three assists. Gwyn Tatton led the Spartans with 10 rebounds.
 
Julie Keckler had a game-high 16 points, while Anna Barry and Taylor Salato added 12 points each. Mariah Dunn rounded out the Warriors' four double-digit scorers with 10 points. Barry had 12 rebounds for a double-double while Jenna Serrantino added 10 rebounds of her own.
 
Castleton got on the board first with a layup by Delaney Whitehead, but Eastern used a 10-0 run after the opening bucket to take a 10-2 lead. A three by Bailey and a jumper by Magro made it 10-7, but four straight points from Dunn made it 14-7 in favor of Eastern. A Bailey layup broke the streak before Eastern closed the quarter with four unanswered layups for a 22-9 edge after 10 minutes.
 
Keckler opened the second with a layup for the Warriors before Vuz hit a pair of free throws for Castleton. Whitehead hit a jumper for Castleton to make it 27-13 before an 11-0 burst by ECSU pushed its lead to 38-13. A three by McKearin got Castleton back on the board and Magro answered a layup by Barry with one of her own late in the half. Eastern got the last blow before the break with a final-possession jumper to make it 42-18 at the break.
 
The second half began with a Keckler three, but Magro got Castleton going again with a layup. After the two sides traded buckets, Castleton began to close the gap late in the third. Magro hit two free throws before Vuz dropped in a layup, and Emily Adams followed an Eastern bucket with a jumper of her own. Castleton scored the final four points of the quarter with layups by Magro and Bailey to make it 54-32 going to the last.
 
After consecutive layups to start the fourth by Eastern, McKearin buried another Spartan triple. Castleton made a late run outscoring ECSU 8-3 over a three-minute span, but it was too little, too late as Eastern closed the contest on top 70-46.
 
Castleton is on the road again Wednesday night, taking on UMass Boston in LEC action at 5:00 p.m.