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team
82
Winner Milwaukee UWM 10-7, 4-2 HL
60
Wright State WSU 15-4, 5-1 HL
Winner
Milwaukee UWM
10-7, 4-2 HL
82
Final
60
Wright State WSU
15-4, 5-1 HL
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 F
Milwaukee UWM 23 24 19 16 82
Wright State WSU 18 8 8 26 60

Game Recap: Women's Basketball |

Panthers Rout Wright State In Big Road Win

Panthers win fourth in a row

Dayton, Ohio – The Milwaukee women's basketball team broke open a close game early en route to an emphatic 82-60 road win over league-leading Wright State Thursday from the Nutter Center.
 
UWM (10-7, 4-2 Horizon) dominated the Raiders (15-4, 5-1 Horizon) in handing them their first league loss of the year.
 
Milwaukee's 82 points is the second most allowed by Wright State this season and it is just the second home loss for WSU this year.
 
In fact, the Raiders came into the game averaging 80.4 points per game – the 11th highest total in the nation. Wright State also was second in the country this year in rebounds per game and Milwaukee limited them to just 32 for the game while UWM hauled in 44.
 
"I think we have two versatile posts in Emma Roenneburg and Steph Kostowicz," Milwaukee head coach Kyle Rechlicz said. "They can both score in the paint and they can both shoot outside. We knew that how big Wright State is that we needed to pull their bigs outside and really capitalize on it in the beginning. Once they got hot, (Wright State) had to change things up and that left Alexis open; she came in and hit some threes right off the bat.
 
"We just moved the ball well. We didn't have a lot of turnovers early in the game, which I think really helped us and that's why we scored so much in the first half. But a lot of it had to do with our post players."
 
The win is the fourth-straight for Milwaukee, moving them to 4-2 in league play. Both marks are the best since a five-game winning streak moved the 2007-08 team to 5-1 to start league play.
 
The 22-point victory ties the largest win for UWM at Wright State in program history, equaling the same margin in a 74-52 win on Mar. 4, 2001.
 
"We have really amazing leadership right now in Sydney Howard, Jordyn Swan and even Steph Kostowicz. They're just demanding so much from their teammates and from each other; it's incredible," Rechlicz said.
 
Five Panthers reached double figures in scoring, including a team-high 20 by Steph Kostowicz – just missing her second-straight double-double with nine rebounds.
 
Jenny Lindner had 15 points, Sierra Ford-Washington 12 and Emma Roenneburg 11.
 
The Panthers also got big contributions off the bench as Alexis Lindstrom rained in another 13 and Christina Wakeman added eight.
 
After a back-and-forth first quarter Milwaukee started a big run late in the first to open things up a bit.
 
The Panthers carried that into the second quarter, using a 15-0 run to bridge the two quarters to very quickly jump on top, 36-18 at the 6:08 mark in the second.
 
Back-to-back threes by Emma Roenneburg doubled Milwaukee's lead at 44-22, and three-point play the hard way by Lindner gave UWM a 23-point lead with 44 seconds left in the first half.
 
Milwaukee did not let up in the second half, continuing its offensive barrage while limiting one of the top scoring teams in the nation.
 
After a Wright State free throw cut the lead to 52-29, the Panthers rattled off 12 in row to blow this one open. Kostowicz and Lindner each had a pair of baskets with a Christina Wakeman jumper sandwiched in the middle. Ford-Washington's jump with 2:45 left in the third made it 64-29 for a 35-point lead – the largest in any game for Milwaukee this season.
 
It wasn't just the offense for Milwaukee, as the Panthers held WSU to just 37 percent shooting from the floor for the game, including going just 4-of-23 from behind the arc.
 
UWM held Kim Demmings, the leading scorer in the Horizon League, to just 12 points through three quarters. Demmings finished the game with a game-high 25 points, breaking the Horizon League record of most points in league history at 2,340. That record was previously held by Milwaukee Athletics Hall of Fame member Traci Edwards.
 
It's another quick turnaround for UWM, heading to conference newcomer Northern Kentucky Saturday for a 7 p.m. contest against the Norse.
 
 
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