Case Western Reserve University senior guard/ forward Emily Plachta scored a career-high 31 points in the final game of her collegiate career to lead the Spartans to a 68-59 win over Carnegie Mellon University on Saturday afternoon at Horsburgh Gymnasium in Cleveland to conclude the team's 2025-26 campaign.

The Spartans ended the season with an 11-14 overall record, including a 4-10 mark in University Athletic Association games. The Tartans, who received votes in this week's D3hoops.com Top-25, dropped to 15-10 overall with a 7-7 conference record.

Stats and Standouts

• Plachta played all 40 minutes in the game, finishing the contest shooting 10-of-15 overall, three-of-three from behind the three-point line, and eight-of-nine from the free throw line. She added five rebounds, an assist, a steal, and a block.

• Junior forward Maura Schorr recorded her third-consecutive double-double, totaling 12 points and 10 rebounds with an assist, a steal, and two blocks.

• Junior guard Mya Hartjes added 10 points and led the team with four assists.

• Junior forward Biz Watson led the team with 12 rebounds and scored four points with a steal and two blocks.

• The Spartans ended the contest shooting 37.9% overall, including 31.6% from behind the three-point line.

First Period

• The Tartans led 7-3 early, but CWRU followed with five unanswered points to take its first lead of the game, 8-7, with 7:02 left in the opening stanza.

• Carnegie Mellon responded with a three on its next possession to regain the lead, and went ahead by as many as eight in the period before closing out the frame with a 21-14 lead.

Second Period

• The Tartans took a 10-point lead, 26-16, by the 8:48 mark, before CWRU launched on a 16-0 run over the next six minutes to grab the lead in the game. 

• CWRU took a 27-26 lead on a jumper by Watson with 5:47 left in the half, and capped off the run with a pair of free throws from Plachta at the 2:32 mark to go ahead 33-26.

• The Spartans led by five points, 35-30, going into halftime.

• Plachta scored 15 points in the second period and finished the first half with 21 total points, playing all 20 minutes and making seven-of-10 shots overall and two-of-two from behind the three-point arc. 

Third Period

• The Tartans trimmed the lead to three points with 8:50 on the clock in the third, but back-to-back layups from Plachta and junior forward Maura Schorr put CWRU ahead 41-34 with 7:54 to play.

• CWRU led by as many as nine points in the period, going ahead 52-43 on a layup by sophomore guard Mila Rossini, and took a five-point lead, 55-50, into the fourth quarter.

Fourth Period

• CWRU quickly increased its lead back to nine points, going ahead 61-52 on a jumper by Watson with 7:19 left in the game.

• Carnegie Mellon cut it to a one-possession game, 52-49, with 1:05 to go, but free throws from Plachta and senior guard Emi Hutter-DeMarco increased the team's lead to six points, 55-49, with 22 seconds left, as CWRU was able to hold on for a five-point victory.

Spartan Notes

• Prior to the game, the Spartans recognized their three graduating players - Plachta, Hutter-DeMarco, and senior guard Maya Roberts - during a special 'Senior Day' ceremony. Together, the group helped the Spartans total 44 wins over the past four seasons.

• Plachta finished her career with 1,034 points, the 13th-most by a player in program history.

• Hartjes ended her season with 99 assists, tied for the 12th-most in a campaign in team history, while her 55 made three-point shots are tied for the fourth-most in a season by a Spartan. Her 253 career assists are ninth all-time in team history.

• Schorr recorded her team-leading seventh double-double of the season on Saturday.

• CWRU improved to 40-24 all-time against Carnegie Mellon with the win, completing a season sweep of the series against the Tartans.

• CWRU ended its season with a 6-5 record in home games.