KUTZTOWN, Pa. – Freshman Casey Remolde (Philadelphia, Pa./Saint Basil Academy), the three-time defending Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Defensive Athlete of the Week, once again was a menace on the defensive side of the floor, but also led the team in scoring as the Kutztown University women's basketball team earned a double-digit victory over Georgian Court, 89-70, Saturday evening in a non-conference game inside Keystone Arena.
 
The Golden Bears (5-4 overall) have now won three in-a-row and four of their last five games.
 
Remolde tallied a career-high 26 points, going 6-of-11 from the floor and a perfect 12-for-12 from the free-throw line. She also added three rebounds, four assists, three blocks and three steals in stuffing the stat sheets.
 
Three other Golden Bears scored in double-figures, including senior Gabbi Wright (Elkins Park, Pa./Cheltenham) with 19, Rylee Derr (Lititz, Pa./Warwick) with 13 and Brianna Tarabocchia (Woodcliff Lake, N.J./Northern Valley Regional) with 10. Wright, who also had four rebounds and two assists, showed off her athleticism and elusiveness in front of the basket several times in the second half as she eluded defenders for important layups when the Lions (1-6) were cutting into KU's lead. Derr added five rebounds and three assists while Tarabocchia grabbed six rebounds.
 
Kutztown led from start to finish and scored the game's first 11 points, and never looked back, leading 49-32 at halftime, seeing its lead balloon to as much as 25 (64-39 and 70-45) in the middle of the third quarter.
 
Zoe Zerman (Jonestown, Pa./Northern Lebanon) flirted with a quadruple-double, finishing with nine points, five rebounds, a career-high seven assists and five steals. Karen Lapkiewicz (Southampton, Pa./Saint Basil Academy) was one basket and two boards shy of a double-double, recording eight points and eight rebounds. Annie Whalen (Ivyland, Pa./Archbishop Wood) and Kaylan Jackson (Germantown, Md./Clarksburg) both finished with two points to round out the scoring for KU.
 
Kutztown returns home and is back in conference play when it hosts PSAC foes Slippery Rock (Dec. 20) and Edinboro (Dec. 21) on back-to-back nights with 5:30 p.m. tip-offs.