NORTHFIELD, VT. – The Norwich University Cadets hit their final three free throws to overturn a late deficit and pick up a key Great Northeast Athletic Conference win against the Simmons Sharks Tuesday evening. The Cadets, improving to 10-13 overall and 5-6 in the league, trailed visiting Simmons (3-18, 1-10 GNAC) 62-46 with under six minutes left. From that point, the Maroon and Gold brought their home crowd inside Andrews Gymnasium to its feet with a 22-3 run to end the game with a 68-65 win.

Cadets sophomore Erin Clark (Newbury, Vt.) hit a pair of clutch free throws just moments after missing a pair and getting a big offensive rebound with 3:13 left that brought the deficit inside 10 and then came back with just over a minute to play and hit a trey.

Junior forward Jessalyn Sweeney (Standfordville, N.Y.) hit a lay-up and picked up a steal that led to a free throw early in the run, recorded four rebounds and two steals total in the stretch and then salted the game away with two free throws with 13 seconds left.

Simmons' strong road effort was topped by 13 points and nine rebounds from junior Liz O'Connor (Milton, Mass.) and 11 each from Olivia LaCroix (Manchester, N.H.) and Leah Davis (Cranston, R.I.) who went three for six from behind the arc.

The Sharks host cross town rival Emerson on Saturday, February 11th at 1:00 p.m. NU faces its final regular season road trip at co-GNAC leading Emmanuel College of Massaachusetts. Tip-off is set for 3 p.m.