Box Score
Box score
MILWAUKEE - The Wisconsin Lutheran College
women's basketball team used a 10-0 run late in the second half to
surge past the Concordia University Chicago Cougars 62-57 on
Tuesday in a Northern Athletics Conference game at the Recreation
Complex.
Wisconsin Lutheran was plagued by a sluggish start out of the
gates, falling behind 12-4 to Concordia Chicago at the 11:07 mark
of the first half. The Warriors, who trailed throughout the entire
first half, found themselves down 27-24 at the halftime break. WLC
shot just 30.8 percent and committed 13 turnovers in the opening
half of action.
The Warriors, who shot 55.6 percent from the floor in the second
half, trailed until 7:54 left in the game when junior forward Erika
Laete (Spokane, Wash./Evergreen Lutheran) sunk a pair of free
throws to put WLC up 42-41. Down by three points (51-48) with 4:24
left to play, Wisconsin Lutheran went on a 10-0 run to grab a
seven-point lead that it would not relinquish.
CUC trailed by just three points with 21 seconds left, but Megan
Sankey's (Waupun, Wis./Winnebago Lutheran) steal and lay-up as time
expired sealed the victory. WLC out-scored CUC 18-7 in points off
turnovers in the second half.
Senior forward Whitney Miller (Germantown, Wis./Kettle Moraine
Lutheran) scored 19 points on 7-of-13 shooting to lead the
Warriors. Freshman guard Shavon Dillon (Milwaukee, Wis./Hope
School) finished with 13 points, including 11 in the second half.
Laete grabbed a game-high eight rebounds for WLC, which
out-rebounded the Cougars 36-30.
Wisconsin Lutheran concluded the game by shooting 43.4 percent
from the floor, compared to a close 40 percent performance by
Concordia Chicago.
Marche Smith scored a game-high 22 points to pace the Cougars
(2-4, 1-3 NAC). Melissa Schwab added 10 points off the bench.
Wisconsin Lutheran (3-3, 3-0 NAC) travels to cross-town
conference rival MSOE on Thursday for a 7 p.m. tip-off with the
Raiders at the Kern Center.
