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79
Winner Milwaukee MKE 8-9 (3-3 HL)
52
Oakland OAKLAND 4-13 (1-5 HL)
Winner
Milwaukee MKE
8-9 (3-3 HL)
79
Final
52
Oakland OAKLAND
4-13 (1-5 HL)
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 F
Milwaukee MKE 20 21 19 19 79
Oakland OAKLAND 14 14 15 9 52

Game Recap: Women's Basketball |

Milwaukee Runs Past Oakland, 79-52

Hayes sparks big run with 14 points off the bench

ROCHESTER, Mich. – Eleven different Panthers scored as the Milwaukee women's basketball team used a number of big scoring runs to cruise to a 79-52 win over Oakland Friday evening from the O'rena.
 
The win is the third in a row for Milwaukee (8-9, 3-3 Horizon), with the 79 points equaling a new season high in the team's largest win of the year.
 
The Panthers finished the game shooting a season-high 50 percent (32-64) as a team, finishing with 21 assists – also a season best.
 
"This is a road trip we've been really focused on," MKE head coach Kyle Rechlicz said. "We wanted to get back to who we are and focus on ourselves and not our opponents. And I'm really proud of how we came out and played. We attacked it from the start. Our goal was to win all four quarters, and we did that tonight."
 
Megan Walstad led Milwaukee with 18 points and seven rebounds in a team-high 25 minutes.
 
Akaylah Hayes provided a big spark off the bench, finishing with 14 points on 5-of-7 shooting to go with seven rebounds, three assists, a career-best three steals and one block.
 
Brandi Bisping tied her career high with 10 points to go with six rebounds in just 15 minutes. Lizzie Odegard added another eight points and Jamie Reit another seven.
 
Sydney Staver came off the bench and hit both her shots for four points, one steal and one assist, while Anaiah Moore dished out a pair of assists to go with one rebound in six minutes.
 
Taylor Jones led the way for Oakland (4-13, 1-5 Horizon) with 15 points and eight rebounds.
 
After a hot start from the Golden Grizzlies saw them take a 14-8 lead just six minutes into the game, the Panthers responded with authority, ripping off an 18-0 run to take complete control and never look back.
 
It started with a fast-break three from Sydney Levy, before five straight from Walstad. Hayes then ended the opening frame with back-to-back buckets to make it 20-14 Panthers after one.
 
Bisping then opened the second with her first points of the night – a triple from the wing – before Reit drilled a three after a great pass from Bre Cera and just like that Milwaukee blitzed ahead, 26-14.
 
After an 8-0 burst from the home squad, MKE once again responded, this time with a 15-6 scoring run to close out the half. Walstad hit a late three before Hayes once again finished with the final four points of the quarter, capped by a perfectly timed steal for an easy lay in just before the buzzer to put the Panthers ahead, 41-28.
 
Oakland opened the second half with the first bucket, but Milwaukee once again asserted its dominance with another big run, this time rattling off 10 unanswered – eight of which came from Walstad - for a 51-30 edge just five minutes into the half.
 
Largely going to her bench in the second half, Rechlicz continued to see the same results from her squad as Milwaukee went on another 15-3 run to start the fourth quarter.  
 
The Panthers dominated seemingly every statistical category, finishing with 38 points in the paint, 26 points off turnovers and an incredible 44-13 edge in points off the bench.
 
Up next, MKE will look to close out its roadtrip with another win, tipping off against Detroit Mercy Sunday at noon Central from Calihan Hall.
 
 
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