WOMEN'S BASKETBALL - UW-Whitewater Athletics

Warhawks Blow Out #13 Millikin
The UW-Whitewater women's basketball team, ranked eighteenth in the D3hoops.com preseason
poll, opened the season Friday night with a 92-46 win over number thirteen Millikin University in
the first game of the Coaches versus Cancer Tournament hosted by Millikin in Decatur, Illinois.
Whitewater built a 53-25 halftime lead and continued to add on in the second half.
The Warhawks shot 75% from the floor in the second half, including 3-5 from three point range.
Whitewater shot 54% from the field for the game, while limiting Millikin to 32%.
Kelsey Hendrickson and Trisha Thill combined for eleven of Whitewater's 23 steals.
The Warhawks also out-rebounded the Big Blue 45-27, with UW-W's Dana Thompson grabbing a
game-high eight.
The Warhawks were led in scoring by center Tiffany Morton's 21 points, with Hendrickson adding
14 and Meghan Schmidt 12. Point guard Mary Donohoo had four assists and no turnovers for
UW-W, who forced Millikin into 34 turnovers.
Millikin was led by Lindsay Ippel's 18 points and 7 rebounds.
Whitewater will play the winner of Robert Morris College (IL) and Maryville University, a game
played later Friday night. The Millikin tourney title game will tip off at 4:00 at Millikin in Decatur.
Warhawks Coast Past Maryville
The Warhawk women's basketball team made it 2-0 with a 93-74 win over Maryville College
Saturday evening in the championship game of the Coaches versus Cancer Tournament hosted
by Millikin University in Decatur, Illinois.
UW-W jumped out to a 10-2 lead, but Maryville put together a run of their own and climbed within
13-11 with 14:27 left in the half. UW-W briefly flirted with double figure leads for several minutes,
but Maryville was back within five, 31-26, with 4:55 left.
The Warhawks out-scored MC 16-4 three and a half minutes to take a 47-30 lead in to the locker
room. The closest Maryville got was 49-35 at the 18:05 mark, and the Warhawks led by as
twenty-one on several occasions.
Whitewater's victory was built by a 55-32 rebound advantage. Tiffany Morton was leading
rebounder in th game, with 11, and the other part of Whitewater's post tandem, Dana Thompson,
added 10 boards.
UW-W's Morton was also the leading scorer in the game, with 21, and tops in blocked shots with
3. Also in double figures for the Warhawks was Nicole Bundy, 15, Meghan Schmidt, 12, and
Lindsay Buechner with 11. Maryville was led in scoring by Samantha Maines with 14, with
Courtney Bergheger and Sara Wemlinger with 13 apiece. Allie Wilhelm was also in double
figures with 12. Wemlinger added eight rebounds to lead MU in that category.
Whitewater's Kelsey Hendrickson and Morton were named to the all-tournament team.
UW-W, ranked eighteenth in the Division III preseason poll, knocked off thirteenth ranked Millikin
University 92-46 Friday night in the Coaches versus Cancer Tournament.
The Warhawks next game, and their first home contest, will be Sunday, November 25 at 3:00,
with Cornell College (IA) visiting Kachel Gym in Williams Center.
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