WOMEN'S BASKETBALL - UW-Whitewater Athletics

Lindsey Buechner, junior center Dana Thompson and Meghan Shmidt scored ten each.
Thompson and Schmidt led UW-W with five rebounds each. Schmidt added to her all-around
game with a team high four assists, sharing that mark with sophomore guard Sarah Moran.
Thompson also blacked five shots, the best effort by a Warhawk this season and tied for
nineteenth best in the UW-W record book.
Freshman center Gigi Hudson led the Yellowjackets with ten points and seven rebounds.
Amanda Rounsville, a junior center, chipped in with nine points and seven boards.
UW-W, ranked third in the D3hoop.com pool, is 17-1 overall and 7-1 in the WIAC. Superior is 4-
13 overall and 1-8 in the WIAC.
UW-Whitewater will play Wednesday, Januarty 30 at UW-La Crosse. The next home game for
the Warhawks will be Saturday, February 2 at 3:00 with UW-Eau Claire visiting Kachel Gim in
Williams Center in a battle for first place in the WIAC.
The February 2 game is also part of UW-W's celebration of National Girls and Women in Sport
Day, with the Warhawk team autographing their poster after the game in the upper lobby of
Williams Center.
#3 Warhawks Edge Eagles in OT
UW-Whitewater, ranked third in Division III, escaped Mitchell Hall at UW-La Crosse with a 99-87
overtime victory.
Whitewater led at the half 54-41. The Warhawks led 74-62 at 8:06, but the Eagles rattled off
fourteen straight points to take a 76-74 at 3:52. UW-W's Lindsey Buechner tied the game at 82-
82 with two free throws with 1:10 left, and that ended the scoring in regulation. Whitewater won
the game at the line in OT, hitting 11 of its 17 points in the extra session from the line.
Senior center Lindsey Buechner scored a season-high 24 points, passing DeAnne Lehman
(1984-88, 1,050) to move into fifth place on UW-Whitewater's career scoring list with 1,064
points. Nineteen of Buechner's points came in the first half. Sophomore guard Kelsey
Hendrickson scored 20 points, including 7 of Whitewater's 17 in the overtime period. Sophomore
center Tiffany Morton also scored 20, and for the first time this season UW-W has had three 20+
point scorers in a game. Sophomore guard Heidi Sonntag had her season-high seven assists,
and Buechner added eight rebounds and four steals to her game. Morton was the game's
leading rebounder with nine.
UW-L junior guard Mackenzie Hunter led both teams with 28 points, going 11-16 from the field
and 6-6 from the line. Junior center Lindsay Wahl contributed 19 points, senior forward Mandy
Stevens 15, and freshman forward Dana Churchill 14. Wahl also dished out four assists, and
Churchill added three steals.
The team stats were as even as the final score would indicate. Whitewater shot 52% from the
field, La Crosse 49%. Whitewater had 37 rebounds, La Crosse 36. Both teams had 24
turnovers. Whitewater made four three point shots, La Crosse three. The difference, with
Hendrickson contributing much of it, was that Whitewater went 11-12 from the line in overtime.
UW-W is 18-1 overall and 8-1 in the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. UW-La
Crosse is 9-10 overall and 4-6 in the WIAC.
UW-Whitewater will host UW-Eau Claire Saturday, February 2, at 3:00 p.m. in Kachel Gym at
Williams Center in the battle for first place. The February 2 game is also part of UW-W's
celebration of National Girls and Women in Sport Day, with the Warhawk team autographing their
poster after the game in the upper lobby of Williams Center. There are numerous special events
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