WOMEN'S BASKETBALL - UW-Whitewater Athletics

Warhawks Up Mark to 3-0 with Win Over Cornell
UW-Whitewater upped its record to 3-0 with an 85-48 win over Cornell College (IA) Sunday
afternoon in the Kachel Gym in Williams Center in Whitewater, Wisconsin.
Whitewater led 41-22 at the half and never led by less than twenty points in the second half UW-
W's largest lead of the game, 39, came at 85-46 with 1:55 left in the game.
Senior center Lindsey Buechner, with 17 points, led four Warhawks in double figures. Tiffany
Morton, a junior post player, added 12, Dana Thompson, a sophomore post player, contributed
11, and senior guard Trisha Thill scored 10.
Forward Alicia West led Cornell with 13 points, with guard Charlotte Milas scoring 11.
UW-W outrebounded Cornell 50-36, led by Morton's game-high ten rebounds. The Warhawks
also shot 50% from the field in the game while limiting CC to 30%. Whitewater's defense also
contributed five blocked shots, four by Morton. Whitewater's Meghan Schmidt, a junior forward,
led both teams with five assists. Cornell is 0-2 this season.
UW-Whitewater, ranked eighteenth in the pre-season poll of NCAA III teams, will play at the
University of Chicago Wednesday. The Warhawks will open Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic
Conference play Saturday, December 1 at 5:00, hosting UW-Stevens Point at 3:00 Saturday,
December 1 in Kachel Gym.
UW-Whitewater Defeats University of Chicago
UW-Whitewater upped its record to 4-0 with a 62-53 victory over the University of Chicago, at
Chicago's Ratner Athletics Center Wednesday night.
The Warhawks jumped out to a 5-0 lead early in the game, but Chicago evened the score as the
teams battled early in the game. With 5:53 left in the first half, Whitewater took the lead for good
on a layup by Dana Thompson, eventually building a 13 point lead with 1:24 left in the first half on
another Thompson layup.
UW-Whitewater maintained its lead the entire half, building a 54-42 lead with 5:14 left in the game
on a Trisha Thill three point basket. Chicago then went on a 9-0 run to cut the lead to 54-51 with
2:23 remaining in the game. Whitewater answered by outscoring Chicago 8-2 the rest of the way.
All eight of Whitewater's points came on free throws.
Whitwater was lead in scoring by Kelsey Hendrickson's game high 15 points. Meghan Schmidt
chipped in 12 points as well. Tiffany Morton lead the Warhawks with 8 rebounds, and Thill dished
out 5 assists to lead both teams. Chicago's Molly Hackney had 12 points and Nicaya Rapier had
8 points, 8 rebounds, and 4 assists.
Whitewater was 12-19 from the free throw line and Chicago was only 3-3 from the free throw line.
UW-Whitwater is ranked tenth or fifteenth in the two national Division III polls, and the Univestiy of
Chicago, now 4-1, is ranked eighteenth in both.
UW-Whitewater will open the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conferenct season at 3:00
hosting UW-Stevens Point in Kachel Gym in the Williams Center. UW-Stevens Point is ranked
sixteenth and twentith in both polls respectively.
Warhawks Remain Perfect with Win Over Pointers
The Warhawk women's basketball team, ranked tenth and fifteenth in the two national Division III
polls, opened the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference season with a 75-71 win over
previously unbeaten, and eighteenth ranked, UW-Stevens Point Saturday afternoon in Williams
Center in Whitewater, Wisconsin.
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