EDINBORO, Pa. --- The Golden Eagles women's basketball team concluded their 2022-23 season on Saturday afternoon, dropping a road decision to Edinboro by a 72-34 score. Clarion struggled against the Fighting Scots, who with the win locked up the third seed in the upcoming PSAC Tournament.
 
The Fighting Scots were stout defensively in their final home game of the year, forcing 22 Golden Eagles turnovers and holding Clarion to just 13-of-43 (.302) shooting from the field. Edinboro got the early jump and did not relent, swiftly building a double-digit lead and making it stick.
 
Jada Smith and Sierra Bermudez led the Golden Eagles in scoring, finishing with eight points apiece. Smith got hers on 4-of-11 shooting while also compiling three steals, three rebounds and two assists. Bermudez, meanwhile, shot 3-of-6 from the field and also added two rebounds and two steals.
 
Edinboro took an 11-4 lead early, with Hayley Sims draining a three-pointer at the 5:15 mark to cap their early run. Smith briefly brought the lead down to six points with a transition bucket late in the quarter, stealing the ball from Lauren Mullen and going coast-to-coast for the make that made it 15-9, but the Fighting Scots had the advantage back into the double-digits before the end of the period. Gillian Fisher made it a 20-point game with a jumper at the 3:48 mark of the second quarter, though Ava Haddad pulled off an and-one through a foul by Bailie Brinson to cut it to 33-17 at the halftime break.
 
That halt in the momentum was only temporary, though, as the Fighting Scots got the lead to nearly 30 points by the end of the third quarter. Edinboro scored 12 of the first 13 points of the fourth quarter to make it a 66-24 game, and the Fighting Scots rode it out to the end.
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