WOMEN'S BASKETBALL - UW-Whitewater Athletics

UW-Whitewater, 22-2 overall, will close the regular season Saturday at home, hosting UW-River
Falls at 1:00 in Kachel Gym in Williams Center.The Warhawks will also host a WIAC Tournament
first round game, against a team to be determined, Tuesday, February 26 at 7:00.
Warhawks Are WIAC Champs, Open Tourney at Home Tuesday
UW-Whitewater clilnched its first Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference since 1986 with
an 82-38 win over UW-River Falls Saturday afternoon in Kachel Gym of Williams Center in
Whitewater, Wisconsin. The Warhawks will host UW-Platteville Tuesday at 7:00 in Kachel Gym
in a WIAC Tournament first round game. UW-W students will get free admission,
compliments of DLK Enterprises, to any remaining WIAC games, men or women, by
showing their ID at the door.
Both teams started slowly, with just six points total, scored in the first three minutes and ten in the
first four minutes. Whitewater never trailed and reached a double-digit margin, 13-2 at 13:26.
River Falls did not score its fourth point of the first half until 11:54 on a jumper by freshman
forward Sarah Schoeneck, by which time it was UW-W 17-4.
The Whitewater defense limited the Falcons to just seven points in the first ten minutes. The
Falcons had it down to eight points twice later in the half, but Whitewater had it back to 44-24 at
intermission. UW-W junior center Tiffany Morton had a double double in the first half, with 18
points and ten rebounds.
UW-W, the top scoring team in the WIAC and fourth in National Collegiate Athletic Association
Division III statistics, rolled the lead to as many as 48 in the second half. The Warhawks have
scored 80+ points seventeen times this season.
Morton ended up with a season high 25 points, sophomore guard Heidi Sonntag added 17 and
senior guard Trisha Thill scored 12 as eleven Warhawks scored in the contest. Morton ended
with 13 rebounds, and sophomore guard Sarah Moran dished out five assists. River Falls was
led in scoring by Kelli Hilt, a sophomore guard, scored 17, and senior forward Caitlin Hunstock
grabbed nine boards for UW-RF.
The Falcons shot 26% for the game, and just 3-11 from the line. Whitewater shot 44% from the
floor and made 18-23 free throws.
Whitewater, 23-2 overall, share the WIAC title with UW-Eau Claire. The Blugolds earned the
numbger one seed on a coin flip after several other tiebreakers could not determine the top seed.
UW-RF ends the regular season 8-17 overall, 2-14 in the WIAC.The winner of the WIAC
Tournament earns the league's automatic berth in the NCAA III championship tournament.
Offense and Defense Click as UW-W Moves on to Host WIAC Semifinal Thursday
UW-Whitewater is the highest scoring team in the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference,
and fourth in Division III of the NCAA, and the Warhawks did pass the 90 point mark for the tenth
time this season --- but Tuesday night that had to take a back seat to a defense that forced 37
turnovers (the most by a UW-W opponent this season) and held UW-Platteville to 31% shooting
from the floor in the Warhawks' 93-53 win over the Pioneers in a WIAC Tournament first round
game in Kachel Gym of Williams Center. UW-W, 25-2 and ranked fourth in the D3hoops.com
poll, will host UW-Stevens Point, 22-4 and nineteenth in the poll, Thursday at 7:00 in Whitewater
in a tournament semifinal. The Pointers defeated UW-Oshkosh 84-62 in another quarterfinal
matchup Tuesday. UW-W students will get free admission, compliments of DLK
Enterprises, to the WIAC Tournament semifinal (Wednesday men, Thursday women) and
final (Saturday) games, men and women, by showing their ID at the door.
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