VESTAL, N.Y. – The Binghamton women's basketball team (3-6) lost 75-65 to Columbia (7-2) in a non-conference game on Saturday afternoon at the Bearcats Sports Complex. The defeat snapped the Bearcats' two game winning streak.

Junior center Alyssa James scored a team-high 20 points and added eight rebounds. It marked the first time this season and fourth time in her career that she has reached the 20-point mark in scoring.

Redshirt sophomore guard Jasmine Sina finished with 16 points, draining three three-point field goals in the process. Junior guard Imani Watkins, meanwhile, added 15 points, five assists and a pair of blocks. Also reaching double figures in scoring was freshman guard Kai Moon with 11 points.

Facing its fourth Ivy League opponent so far this year, the Bearcats battled back from a 47-37 deficit to take a 51-50 lead on a jumper by Watkins with 2:58 left in the third period. From there, the lead swung back and fourth during the rest of the period, which ended with the Lions up 57-55.

In the fourth period, Binghamton fought back to tie the game twice. The second instance came when Moon made a layup to deadlock the score at 62-62 with 5:25 left in regulation.

Columbia then went on an 8-0 run to go up 70-62 with 2:06 left to go. Tori Oliver punctuated the run with a three-point play.

Watkins trimmed the deficit to 70-64 with 1:53 left in regulation but that would be the last field goal the Bearcats would hit.

Camille Zimmerman led all scorers with 27 points in the winning effort. She also posted 10 rebounds and a pair of assists.

Oliver added 15 points while Paulina Koerner chipped in 10 points.

Binghamton got to the free throw line 37 times but converted only 21 of its attempts (57 percent). Columbia, meanwhile, shot 46 percent from the floor, making 28 of its 61 shots.

"We are disappointed not to have gotten the win today," head coach Linda Cimino said. "We did a good job at getting to the foul line but we didn't make a lot of our free throws and that was a big difference."

The Lions held a 48-29 advantage in rebounding and scored 36 of their points in the paint. They also had 19 of their points from off the bench.

The Bearcats took care of the basketball well, committing only eight turnovers. It marks the third time this season that they have finished with less than 10 miscues.

Binghmaton hosts Misericordia next Saturday at 4 p.m.

NOTES: Sina now has 117 career three-point field goals and moves into eighth place all time in program history. She came into the game tied with Laura Sario (2004-08) with 114 treys … Watkins now has 1,100 career points and moves into 12th place all time. Against the Lions, she surpassed Sario, who scored 1,088 career points ... Binghamton has now scored at least 65 poins in each of the last five games.