WOMEN'S BASKETBALL - UW-Whitewater Athletics

Warhawks Open NCAA Play with Win
UW-Whitewater defeated Manchester College in the first round of the National Collegiate Athletic
Association Division III tournament 77-60 at Bloomington, Ill. Junior Tiffany Morton, from Beloit,
Wis., led the team with a double-double by scoring 20 points and picking up 11 rebounds.
Also doing well for the Warhawks were senior Lindsey Buechner, from Cross Plains, Wis., and
sophomores Kelsey Hendrickson, from Monroe, Wis., and Heidi Sonntag, from Milwaukee, Wis.
Hendrickson had 13 points, including three 3-pointers. Buechner had 10 points and eight
rebounds, and Sonntag also scored 10 points, including two 3-pointers.
On the Manchester side, Sarah Bose led the team with 15 points and three steals. Sarah
Conwell, Kailey Honn and Kristen Lancaster led the team with five rebounds apiece.
The Warhawks built an early 12-0 lead in the first half after two three-pointers by Hendrickson
and Sonntag. Manchester battled their way back cutting the lead to 15-10 after Kristen Lancaster
and Kailey Honn hit jump shots. UW-Whitewater rebuilt a 10-point lead with less than four
minutes to go in the half on the strength of Morton in the paint and Sonntag from the three-point
line. Manchester battled their way back to within four at the end of the half.
UW-Whitewater started the half with a 15-5 run behind the shooting of Buechner, Hendrickson,
Morton and Sonntag. After the 12:00 mark, Manchester trailed by double digits for the rest of the
game. UW-Whitewater built a 17-point lead, 74-57 at 1:14 on the strength of seven straight points
by Morton.
UW-Whitewater shot .491 from the field compared to Manchester's .389. They both took the
same amount of field goal attempts. From beyond the arc, the Warhawks shot 7 for 17 compared
to Manchester's 3 for 12 shooting.
UW-Whitewater will face Illinois Wesleyan in the regional semi-final at 7 p.m. on March 8 at the
Shirk Center at Illinois Wesleyan University, the host of the regional.
Warhawks Advance to NCAA Sectional With Win Over IWU
The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater defeated host Illinois Wesleyan University 87-63 in a
National Collegiate Athletic Association regional final championship game on Saturday night.
UW-W, 26-3 will face Simpson College, 27-2 in a sectional match up March 14. The other
sectional matchup will include Amherst 27-2 facing DePauw 26-3. Game times and locations of
the sectional matchups will be announced Sunday afternoon.
With 6:56 left in the first half and the score 24-22, UW-W went on an 11-0 run over the next three
minutes to make the score 35-22 with 3:39 left in the half. Whitewater was able to hold at least a
double-digit advantage through the whole second half and built the lead to a high of 38 with 6:50
to play in the ball game.
UW-W's "MO" through this season has been beating teams with a deep bench. Case in point:
the Warhawks had five players score in doulbe figures, with three playing the post position.
Senior center Lindsey Buechner had 15, junior center Tiffany Morton 15, and sophomore post
Dana Thompson 14. Also in double figures were sophomore guard Kelsey Hendrickson and
junior Heidi Sonntag contributed 14 each. Thompson led UW-W with eight rebounds, and senior
guard Trisha Thill led the team with five steals.
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