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Kyle Rechlicz
86
Winner Milwaukee UWM 11-7, 5-2 HL
60
Northern Kentucky NKU 10-8, 2-5 HL
Winner
Milwaukee UWM
11-7, 5-2 HL
86
Final
60
Northern Kentucky NKU
10-8, 2-5 HL
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 F
Milwaukee UWM 17 26 20 23 86
Northern Kentucky NKU 10 20 20 10 60

Game Recap: Women's Basketball |

White-Hot Panthers Roll Past NKU

Milwaukee wins fifth-straight league game

Highland Heights, Ky. – Four players scored in double figures – including career nights for Alexis Lindstrom and Steph Kostowicz – as the Milwaukee women's basketball team rattled off its fifth win in a row with an 86-60 victory over Northern Kentucky at the BB&T Arena Saturday night.
 
Milwaukee (11-7, 5-2 Horizon) has now won five games in a row for the first time since the 2007-08 season, with all five of those coming early in conference play.
 
The Panthers once again built a big lead early and were able to maintain throughout the second half, keeping NKU (10-8, 2-5 Horizon) at arms length he entire second half.
 
UWM hit a season-high 55.6 percent from the floor and led by as many as 27 in this one, giving the team its third-straight win by at least 22 points.
 
"We really came out with a lot of focus," Milwaukee head coach Kyle Rechlicz said. "I actually thought Northern Kentucky came out very hard. I give a lot of credit to them because this was not our best rebounding game, but we hit shots. We moved the ball exceptionally well and found the open player.
 
"We're all coming together. I think people are really starting to understand their roll and we're playing with a lot of energy from one another."
 
Milwaukee once again played outstanding defense all night long, limiting a Norse team that had been one of the tops in the nation in three-point shooting to just 6-24 from behind the arc.
 
Kostowicz had her third-straight monster game, scoring a career-high 23 points on 7-of-8 shooting to go with eight rebounds, three blocks and a pair of steals and assists.
 
Lindstrom also had a career-high Saturday, pouring in a season-high 19 points to go with three rebounds.
 
Sierra Ford-Washington also was huge for the Panthers in this one, scoring 21 while grabbing five rebounds and dishing out three assists.
 
Jenny Lindner added another 11 for Milwaukee, all in the second half.
 
For the third-straight game, Milwaukee had a big run in the second quarter to open up the game. Leading 36-28 with just under two minutes in the first half, Lindstrom hit threes on back-to-back possessions. Kostowicz then went 1-2 from the line to make it a 7-0 in just over a minute of game action as Milwaukee led 43-30 at the break.
 
Once again, UWM had another run early in the second half to blow it open. After an NKU basket drew it to 11, Lindner took over, scoring seven points as part of a 9-2 run in just two minutes.
 
The Panthers ran the lead to 23 after a strange sequence of events saw UWM attempt six free throws in a row at the 5:56 mark.
 
NKU started to chip away at the lead and a three by Courtney Roush drew it to 60-43. But, Kelsey Cunningham drilled a three of her own just seconds later to reestablish a 20-point advantage and end a nearly three minute scoring draught.
 
The Norse had their best stretch early in the fourth, closing the lead to just 12 with the ball and a chance to make it a single-digit game.
 
Rechlicz's squad once again answered the call, going on a 12-0 run. Sydney Howard hit a tough shot in the paint to start the run and Lindstrom drained her fifth three of the game to cap the run and remove any doubt of a comeback in this one.
 
"We're just very consistent right now," Rechlicz said. "Steph is playing very consistent. Alexis and Sierra are playing very consistent and Syd is running the point; she is being a leader for us at the top. And anytime we can get Jenny to pop out and hit some shots or post up. We're just consistent and very dynamic right now."
 
Milwaukee returns home for a two-game home stand next week, starting off with a Thursday game against Detroit at 7 p.m. from the Klotsche Center.
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