Cameryn Ridderikhoff only played 12 minutes on Wednesday night, but they'll likely rank among the most memorable of her basketball life.

The freshman poured in a game-high 21 points, including 15 of the team's 17 during a pivotal third-quarter run, to help lift Franklin women's basketball to a 78-67 victory over Anderson on Go Pink For the Cure night at the Spurlock Center.

It was the first HCAC contest of the season for the Grizzlies (4-2, 1-0).

Ridderikhoff came into the game with 4:08 in the third and immediately scored a basket to give Franklin a 37-36 lead, then added a steal and another bucket 24 seconds later. After the Ravens tied the game with a 3-pointer, Ridderikhoff responded with one at the other end to put the Grizzlies ahead for good at 42-39. She answered two more Anderson buckets with 3-pointers before layups by Molly Schulte and Ridderikhoff capped off a blitz that put the home team up 52-44 with 50 seconds left in the period.

"The basket feels huge, dude," Ridderikhoff said of her third-quarter heater. "I just take every shot that I can get. Once I get that feeling, I know it's going in, so I just keep shooting."

Six more points from Ridderikhoff and four from Erica Buening early in the fourth helped the Grizzlies maintain their lead, which grew to 66-56 on a Jordan Coon jumper with 5:10 remaining in the game. Briley Munchel added a back-breaking 3 with 2:09 left that made it 73-63, and Anderson never got closer than seven after that.

The win was a particularly satisfying one for a Griz team that had been eliminated from the HCAC tournament by the Ravens last winter.

"This game meant a lot to us," Franklin coach Ashley Blanch said. "Honoring those that have been impacted by breast cancer, and playing the team that ended last year's season. We really wanted this one."

Buening finished with 15 points and 10 rebounds off the bench for the Grizzlies. Munchel scored 10 points, Coon added eight points and a team-high 11 rebounds and Schulte and Payton Seay each scored seven, with Seay also grabbing 10 boards and Schulte dishing out five assists.

"We have multiple players that can score any given night, and our team just wants to win," Blanch said.

The hope is that Wednesday's triumph will set the stage for more as conference play ramps up.

"I think it definitely raises our confidence," Ridderikhoff said, "but we have to keep the same mindset and just continue to bring it every single game, because you never know what might happen."

Like maybe a freshman backup going nuclear to give her team a boost at the perfect time.