Box Score Casey Torbet and McKenzee Gertz combined for 34 points to lead the Colorado College women's basketball team to a 60-56 victory over North Central College on Tuesday night at Gregory Arena.

Torbet scored 17 points before fouling out with 4:57 to play in the fourth quarter. The junior guard made seven of nine shots from the floor and went 2-for-3 from behind the arc.

Gertz recorded her first career-double-double with 17 points and a game-high 17 rebounds. The freshman guard/forward connected on four three-points and five of eight free throws.

Freshman guard Abby Walz grabbed 10 rebounds and added three points, three assists and a pair of steals for CC.

The Tigers led 51-32 after sophomore point guard Jordan Meltzer scored two of her nine points with 18 seconds remaining in the third quarter, and they held a 16-point lead after sophomore forward Evan Underbrink made a layup 2:10 into the fourth stanza.

North Central utilized a 13-4 run to get to within 10 points midway through the fourth quarter, and after Torbet picked up her final two fouls in a span of five seconds, the Cardinals trimmed their deficit to 55-49 on a bucket by sophomore forward Maya Walls.

Colorado College answered with a pair of free throws by Gertz and one more from Walz to extend its lead to nine points, however the Tigers went cold and North Central pulled to within four points on freshman guard Haydn Braun's layup with 50 seconds to play.

The Cardinals missed their final two field-goal attempts and saw their comeback fizzle out when Meltzer added a free throw with 22 seconds to play.

Braun scored a team-high 15 points for NCC, which slipped to 0-3.

Sophomore forward Diamond Calicott produced a team-leading 15 rebounds and scored eight points.

CC shot a fraction under 48 percent overall from the floor and 50 percent from three-point range.

The Cardinals connected on only 21 of 70 field-goal attempts and were just 7-for-20 from the charity stripe.

North Central scored 24 points off 23 Tiger turnovers.

Colorado College, which improved to 1-2, plays its home opener on Friday against the College of St. Scholastica as part of the 2017 Rocky Mountain Thanksgiving Classic.