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Jenny Lindner
74
North Dakota State NDSU 1-7
79
Winner Milwaukee UWM 6-1
North Dakota State NDSU
1-7
74
Final
79
Milwaukee UWM
6-1
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 F
North Dakota State NDSU 18 22 21 13 74
Milwaukee UWM 18 21 20 20 79

Game Recap: Women's Basketball |

Panthers Big Down The Stretch Against Hot-Shooting Bison

Lindner sparks big rally late

MILWAUKEE – The Milwaukee women's basketball team used a 9-0 run late and finished the game on an 18-6 run in a 79-74 win over North Dakota State University Saturday afternoon from the Klotsche Center.
 
UWM (6-1) didn't play its best basketball in this one, but found a way down the stretch against a hot-shooting NDSU (1-7) squad that hit 11 threes in a game that featured 16 lead changes and 14 ties.
 
"This is why you play team basketball and not individual," Milwaukee head coach Kyle Rechlicz said. "Some of our players didn't have their best basketball game tonight, but it's always nice when you have players that really step up. I thought Jenny Lindner, Steph Kostowicz, Kelsey Cunningham – they were incredible in this game. We needed players like that. Even Akaylah Hayes – she only played four minutes off the bench, but she was really strong for us in that situation.
 
"That's what the makeup of our team is. When certainly players aren't playing as well, other people can step up. We found a way. We held strong and I think our fans played a large support in that too. They were very loud at the end."
 
Jenny Lindner and Steph Kostowicz were huge for Milwaukee, with both scoring 26 points and grabbing eight rebounds apiece.
 
Sierra Ford-Washington also reached double figures in scoring with 14 points, while collecting seven boards.
 
Alexis Lindstrom also came up in clutch moments for UWM, scoring five – including a big free throw to ice the game in the closing minutes – to go with five assists and a big steal late.
 
Taylor Thunstedt led the way for NDSU, scoring 23 points with a season-best seven made three pointers to keep the Bison in the game until Milwaukee's late surge.
 
A tight game all the way, the Panthers found themselves in a dogfight and trailing by seven with just over seven minutes remaining. Kostowicz started the rally with a pair of layups to cut the lead to three. Lindner then erased the deficit with a huge triple at the 3:35 mark, tying the game at 68-68.
 
On the ensuing NDSU possession, Kostowicz sacrificed her body for a steal and found Lindner who drove all the way to the basket for the lay in, giving UWM its first lead since midway through the third.
 
"Our team was executing at a very high level at that point (in the game)," Rechlicz said. "I was calling out a lot of our plays from the bench and our team was getting the ball into the hands of who needed it, and that was Jenny and Steph. Jenny hit a huge three that really made the run secured, then she fed the ball inside and then Sierra hit a huge layup.
 
"That's what you need; you need your big players to step up and in the right moment, those three came through."
 
The two teams then traded buckets, with Milwaukee leading 76-74 with just 1:07 left on the clock. Once again, the Panthers found a way, with Kostowicz driving and getting an up-and-under to go for a four-point lead late.
 
With the crowd on its feet, the Panthers responded with a huge defensive stop as Lindstrom stripped the ball, was fouled and hit one free throw to give UWM a five-point win.
 
Milwaukee dominated down low, outscoring NDSU 52-26 in the paint. The two teams were even in rebounding with 38 boards each.
 
The Bison shot .426 from the floor but were able to keep things close the whole way on their .550 (11-20) shooting from behind the arc, with UWM making just a pair of threes in this one.
 
It's back to the road for the Panthers next, heading to Normal, Ill. this Wednesday for a 7 pm contest at Illinois State.
 
 
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