With six seconds to go, Kolbi Green fired yet another 3-pointer. It was too late, true. The cavern between Penn and Navy was just too wide with nine seconds remaining.
But she’d hurled some last-minute firepower at a team likely bound for the NCAA tournament, and that was something for the Mids to hold on to.
“Today, we showed up. We fought back,” said sophomore Sophie Gatzounas. “We brought energy we hadn’t brought before.”
The youth-heavy Mids (1-3) hounded Penn from first quarter to last, but fell 65-61 in the first game of the Navy Classic at Alumni Hall.