Bridgewater College jumped out to a 17-3 lead in the first seven minutes Saturday afternoon en route to a 75-62 victory over the Lynchburg College Hornets in ODAC women's basketball action.

Jordan Burkholder opened the scoring for the Eagles with a 3-pointer and Kristin Bosserman added a pair of hoops, giving BC a quick 7-0 lead.

The Hornets' first point came on a free throw by Kristina Darby and Lynchburg's first field goal was a jumper by Brittany Dahn at the 14:11.

Bridgewater's Bianca Booker followed Dahn's jumper with a short baseline jumper to give the Eagles a 17-3 lead with 13:17 left in the first half.

The Hornets battled back and cut the lead to eight, 28-20, on a layup by Tamara Snead, but layups by Booker and Sammy Mizerak pushed the Bridgewater margin back to double digits, 32-20.

A jumper by Dahn trimmed the margin to seven in the final minute of the half, but Emileigh Lambert answered with a driving layup to give BC a 35-26 lead at the break. The Eagles opened the second half with an 10-0 run, forcing the Hornets to play catch-up the rest of the way.

Jessica Timberlake's 3-point play opened the second-half scoring and a layup by Nikki Sydnor made the score 40-26. A 3-pointer by Bosserman followed by a fastbreak layup from Timberlake put BC on top by 19 points, 47-28, with 15:37 left to play.

Lynchburg put forth a frantic rally in the closing three minutes, cutting a 14-point lead down to seven, 67-60, with 1:57 still to play.

Bosserman then hit a baseline jumper to push the margin to nine and the Eagles made enough free throws down the stretch to finish with the 75-62 victory.

Burkholder scored 20 points to pace four Eagles in double figures. Booker and Bosserman scored 11 points each and Timberlake added 10. Timberlake also added six steals and six assists while Burkholder finished with four assists and four steals.

The Eagles battled the Hornets to a virtual standoff on the boards with Lynchburg holding a slim 52-50 margin. Rebecca Henderson pulled down a game-high 13 rebounds to lead the Eagles. Timberlake and Booker finished with nine rebounds each and Sydnor grabbed eight.

Dahn led the Hornets with 14 points and nine rebounds. Darby scored 12 points and Courtney Brewer added 11. Kelly Southerland led the Hornets on the glass with 11 rebounds. The Eagles shot 42.2 percent from the floor while holding the Hornets wto 31.6 percent.

Bridgewater evened its record at 5-5 overall and 3-3 in the ODAC. Lynchburg dropped to 6-4, 3-2 in the conference.