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Jenny Lindner
69
Winner Wright State WSU 9-4, 1-0 HL
51
Milwaukee UWM 8-4, 0-1 HL
Winner
Wright State WSU
9-4, 1-0 HL
69
Final
51
Milwaukee UWM
8-4, 0-1 HL
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 F
Wright State WSU 21 15 14 19 69
Milwaukee UWM 15 8 18 10 51

Game Recap: Women's Basketball |

Panthers Upended By Raiders

Wright State shot 50 percent from the floor in the win

MILWAUKEE – Wright State shot 50 percent from the field – including 57 percent in the fourth quarter – in a 69-51 win over the Milwaukee women's basketball team Thursday night from the Klotsche Center.
 
Playing its first game in 11 days, Milwaukee (8-4, 0-1 Horizon) closed the gap to four in the third quarter but went cold from the floor down the stretch in the league opener.
 
"I thought we were really prepared coming into the game and that we had a really good week of practice leading up. But we didn't seem to put it all together tonight," Milwaukee head coach Kyle Rechlicz said. "A lot of credit to Wright State – they out-toughed us. We knew the game was going to be physical and we didn't match their physicality.
 
"We talked a lot about 'What is Milwaukee basketball,' and we did not play that tonight."
 
Jamie Reit had a team-high 11 points for Milwaukee in just 15 minutes of action.
 
"Jamie was a huge lift off the bench for us," Rechlicz said. "We needed scoring coming off the bench and that's why we put her in that role. She came in a really gave us a much-needed lift offensively."
 
Lexi Smith led Wright State (9-4, 1-0 Horizon) with 22 points and 11 rebounds – one of three Raiders to score in double figures on the night.
 
A back-and-forth game throughout the first, Wright State was able to take control midway through the second period. Symone Simmons hit a deep two followed by a triple to quickly give WSU a nine-point edge. Two more buckets by the Raiders capped a 9-0 run and made it 36-23 at the half.
 
Milwaukee responded nicely out of the break. Bailey Farley got things going with a three pointer to start the second half, followed by a pair of triples from Alexis Lindstrom and just like that UWM cut the lead to just six. A steal by Sierra Ford-Washington and a layup by Farley made it 38-34 with just three minutes gone by in the third, forcing a WSU timeout.
 
"I challenged them in the locker room," Rechlicz said. "We came out with a different sense of fire and a different sense of energy. I thought our defense was much sharper, we talked more and we moved the ball. We have got to do that. We have so many weapons on the court that we cannot play selfish. In the first half we were trying to do it all on our own. In the second half, we really moved the basketball and got some open shots and then knocked them down."
 
The Raiders were able to stymie the Panther surge from there, however, connecting on 57-percent of their shots in the final 10 minutes to take the conference opener.
 
UWM shot just 31.7 percent from the floor in this one and went 7-8 from the free-throw line. Wright State went 8-11 from the charity stripe and claimed a 41-32 edge in rebounding.
 
Milwaukee will look to bounce back Saturday in a New Years Eve matinee against Northern Kentucky at 2 pm from the Klotsche Center.
 
 
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