BURLINGTON, Vt. – Delaney Richason scored a game-high 21 points and Emma Utterback added 14 points, powering Vermont (14-6, 6-2 AE) to a 63-56 win over Binghamton (10-11, 3-5 AE) in an America East women's basketball game on Wednesday evening at Patrick Gym.

Richason went 8-of-12 from the field and was 3-of-4 from beyond the three-point arc. She also added six rebounds, four assists, two steals and a block. Utterback, meanwhile, was 6-of-12 from the field.

Redshirt freshman guard Jadyn Weltz led the Bearcats with 12 points. She also finished with four assists and three steals. Senior forward Clare Traeger scored 11 points and pulled down a game-high seven rebounds while senior guard Denai Bowman also had 11 points and added four rebounds, two assists and a pair of steals.

With the game deadlocked at 19-19, Vermont went on a 12-3 run during the final 7:04 of the second period to take a 31-23 lead at the half. The Catamounts drained four three-point field goals during that stretch – two of which came from Catherine Gilwee.

The Bearcats opened the third period with a 9-0 run to take a 32-31 lead with 7:33 left to go. Sophomore forward Genevieve Coleman had five points during that span.

From there, the lead swung back and fourth until Vermont went on an 11-0 run to go up 49-41 with 8:13 left in the fourth period. Anna Olson, who finished with 10 points (on 5-of-7 shooting) had six of her points during that spurt.

The Bearcats got to within 54-50 on a three-point play by Bowman with 1:31 remaining in regulation. Richason, however, scored four points in the final 52 seconds to lock up the win.

Vermont finished with a 36-30 edge in rebounding and had a 32-24 advantage in points in the paint.

"That's a very good team that beat us tonight," head coach Bethann Shapiro Ord said. "We did a good job guarding Utterback even though she had 14 points but Richason had a great game. We needed to get the crucial rebounds tonight. We can't take a play off and we got to play 40 minutes. We battled again tonight but it wasn't good enough."

Coleman finished with nine points and five rebounds for the Bearcats.

Gilwee finished with nine points in the winning effort. Olson tied Richason for the team lead with six rebounds.

Binghamton travels to Bryant on Saturday for a 1 p.m. game.

NOTES: The Bearcats' five conference defeats have all come by seven points or less … Bowman now has 1,082 points and continues to rank No. 16 all time in Binghamton program history.