DAYTON, TN (January 4, 2007) --- The Milligan College women’s basketball team suffered a 77-65 loss Thursday evening at the hands of No. 12 Bryan College. The Appalachian Athletic Conference (AAC) game was played at Bryan, in Dayton, Tenn.

This was the first AAC contest for Milligan since December 8 and Bryan played their last conference game on December 9. With the results, Milligan now holds a 5-7 overall record and a 2-3 conference record while Bryan moves to 5-0 within the conference and 12-4 overall.

Bryan jumped in front of Milligan 27-2 over the first ten minutes of the contest and the Lady Buffs battled back over the last part of the half to go into halftime trailing 38-20.

Milligan continued to fight back and closed the deficit down to ten points in the later stages of the second half only to see Bryan hold on for the conference win. In the second half, Milligan was 15-of-31 (48.4 percent) from the field and outscored Bryan 45-39 in the half.

Sophomores Rikki Baughman (Elizabethton, Tenn.) and Leah Anderson (Lexington, Ky.) each scored a team-high 17 points for Milligan Thursday night. Anderson also grabbed a game-high 11 rebounds while Kara Monk (Harriman, Tenn.) added 12 points off the bench in the contest.  

Brittany Swanson poured in a game-high 21 points for Bryan.

The Lady Buffs will return to action Saturday afternoon at Covenant College in Lookout Mountain, Ga. The AAC match up is scheduled to tip off at 2 p.m.