DANBURY, Conn. - Junior guard Jasmine Caldwell (Mount Vernon, N.Y.) scored a team-high 10 points as the Western Connecticut State University women's basketball team defeated visiting Plymouth State University, 55-47, in the Little East Conference Play-In game at Feldman Arena on Monday afternoon.

WestConn, now 8-17, will face top-seeded Rhode Island College in the league's quarterfinals tomorrow at 6 pm in Providence, R.I.  The Anchorwomen were crown LEC Regular-Season Champions after going 15-1 in league action during the regular season.

Sophomore Gabrielle Franks (Madison, Conn.) and Alyssa Virtue (Groton, Conn.) each added nine points while freshman Nicole Peralta (North Windham, Conn.) chipped in eight points for the winners.

Balanced scoring, by the hosts, stifled a third-quarter surge by the Panthers.  

Caldwell's bank shot in the lane put WestConn ahead by 12 points, 31-19, at the 7:56 mark of the third stanza, but PSU would not throw in the towel.

The Panthers went on a 15-2 run, capped off by a three-point bucket from Jalen Cook (Monkton, Vt.), over the next 4:54 to their first lead of the ballgame, 34-33.  Another basket from Cook with 42 seconds remaining in the third period gave PSU its biggest lead, 38-34.

Cook closed out her third season with a game-high 22 points.

Peralta buried a long attempt from beyond the arc 20 seconds into the final period to put WestConn back in the lead, 40-38, and it never trailed again.

Three of WestConn's eight participants grabbed a game-high seven rebounds as the hosts finished with a 39-30 advantage on the boards on Monday.

Lauren Keller (Fort Morgan, Colo.) pulled down a team-high six caroms for the Panthers, which end the year at 2-20.

RIC swept the two-game series with WestConn during the regular season.  On January 24, the Anchorwomen prevailed, 69-46 on their own hardwood.  Back at the ONC on February 2, WestConn dropped a 76-49 decision to the tournament's number one seed.