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Ashland University
Eagles
The Eagles closed out the regular season with three straight victories to earn a tie for second place in the GLIAC South Division. …junior forward Lynsey Warren averaged 22.0 ppg. and 9.0 rpg., while shooting 72.2% (13-of-18) from the floor and 90.0% (18-of-20) at the line in the two games. Warren, one of AU’s all-time best volleyball players, is averaging a solid 8.3 ppg. and 5.3 rpg. off the bench…the Eagles shot 91.3% (42-of-46) at the free throw line in the two games. Ashland is second in the GLIAC in free throw percentage (77.2%)…thanks in large part to Warren’s efforts, AU’s reserves outscored its opponents bench, 77-47, over the weekend… Ashland returns to the GLIAC Tournament after a one-year hiatus. The last time AU participated in the conference postseason tournament (2005-06), the Eagles lost in the championship game to Grand Valley State. The Lakers would go on to win the Division II national championship. Ashland is 4-4 in first round GLIAC playoff games and is victorious in its last three opening round contests.
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Ferris
State University
Bulldogs
FSU suffered two close losses last week as they closed out their regular season schedule. On Thursday, the Bulldogs traveled to Saginaw Valley State where they dropped the contes 65-63. Then on Saturday in front 1,640 fans, the largest crowd ever to watch an FSU women’s basketball game, the Bulldogs were edged out by Grand Valley State, 69-62. Ferris State will visit Northwood for a GLIAC Tournament Quarterfinal Game on Saturday, March 1. Tipoff is set for 6 p.m. (EST) inside NU’s Bennett Sports Center at Midland, Mich. Ferris has posted a 6-9 overall record in nine previous league women’s basketball tournament appearances. FSU, which will be making its ninth-straight women’s berth in the GLIAC Tournament, recorded a 91-79 home win over Lake Superior State in last year’s GLIAC Tournament Quarterfinals.
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University
of Findlay
Oilers
The Oilers lost their final two games of the season, falling 86-47 to Hillsdale on the road and 72-66 to Ashland at home…Junior guard Brittany Wells led the way by averaging 17.0 points per game in the two losses…The Oilers end the season setting a record for most three pointers made with 170…Findlay lost their last six games to end the year…Wells scored 24 points in the loss to Ashland and now has 869 career points in three seasons.
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Gannon
University
Golden Knights
The Lady Knights ended the regular season with a 95-66 victory over rival Mercyhurst, enabling Gannon to move into second place in the South Division and earning the right to host a quarterfinal game … Gannon will be participating in its 11th consecutive GLIAC Tournament … Ashley Lowdermilk (Kensington, Ohio/Carrollton) hit her 182nd career three-pointer Saturday, moving her into a tie for third place all-time at Gannon … Lowdermilk also moved into 11th place all-time in scoring with 1,171 career points, needing 15 to move into Gannon’s all-time top 10 … Head coach Cleve Wright needs one victory to tie Gannon’s all-time women’s basketball record of 105 career coaching wins … Brittany Tabron (Canton, Ohio/Canton Central Catholic) recorded her seventh double-double of the season with 21 points and 12 rebounds against Mercyhurst … Tabron recorded 28 points and 19 rebounds in only 36 minutes last week … Julie Kleber (Suffern, N.Y./Suffern) scored a career-high 13 points against Mercyhurst.
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Grand
Valley State University
Lakers
Grand Valley State’s record is now 16-11, 11-7 after closing the regular season with wins over Northwood (60-53) and Ferris State (69-62)…Senior guard Crystal Zick (Byron Center, Mich.) led the team in scoring over the week, averaging 23 points per game…Zick scored 28 points against Ferris State, one off of her career high…Zick finished the week shooting 51.6 percent from the field (16-31)…Sophomore forward Nicole Carr (Kalamazoo, Mich.) led the team in rebounding, averaging 7.5 rebounds per game...Junior forward Kim Wyngaard (Kimberly, Wisc.) scored 18 points in both games this weekend.
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Hillsdale
College
Chargers
The Chargers, winners of 11 games in a row, finished the regular season with the GLIAC’s top conference record (15-2) and best overall record (23-3)…The 23 wins by this team tie the school record for wins in a season with the 2002-03 team (23-6)…The current 11-game winning streak is the second-longest in school history, trailing the 12-0 start put together by the 2004-05 team…Junior Katie Cezat continues to set records for the Chargers…In Thursday’s win over Findlay, Cezat became Hillsdale’s all-time leading rebounder for a single season…She has 322 rebounds for the season, breaking the record previously held by Caitlyn Kennedy and set during the 2002-03 season…Saturday, she broke the school’s record for field goals made in a season…She now has 242, breaking the record held by Sandy Skaisgir, which was set in 1989-90…Cezat needs 26 points to break Skaisgir’s single-season scoring record…Junior Claire Aubrey tied a school record herself Thursday vs. Findlay, going 7-for-7 from the field en route to scoring a career-high 19 points…Aubrey also had 16 Saturday against Wayne State, giving her 33 over a two-game span, the most she’s had in any two-game set in her career.
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Lake
Superior State University
Lakers
Lake Superior State closed out the season with a road sweep against UP rivals Northern Michigan and Michigan Tech, but will miss out on making the GLIAC Tournament for the first time since the 1999-00 season…The Lakers finished below .500 (12-14) for the first time since 2000-01… Junior center Jaclyn Armstrong (Haslett, Mich.) averaged 18.5 points and 7.5 rebounds per game to lead LSSU against NMU and MTU. The key factor in Armstrong’s success was her 13-of-16 shooting at the free-throw line (81 percent). Armstrong shot 50.5 percent at the line as a sophomore and increased that rate to 72.4 percent this season. She totaled 23 points and 11 rebounds during Monday’s 56-53 win at Michigan Tech for her second double double of the season…Senior guard Shalyn Beauchamp (Rock, Mich.) totaled 120 assists this season to finish eighth on LSSU’s single-season assist list. She is 10th in career assists with 244, eighth in career three-pointers with 80 and fifth in career free-throw percentage (.785)…Junior center Alyssa VanderWal totaled a league-leading 55 blocked shots and had the GLIAC’s best field-goal percentage of .669 (79-118).
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Mercyhurst
College
Lakers
Mercyhurst’s season came to a close Saturday in a 95-66 loss to rival Gannon…Freshman Samantha Loadman scored 21 points, tying her career-high with five three-pointers…Kelsey Gordon added a career-high five assists…Leading scorer and rebounder Amy Achesinski had just nine points and five rebounds as she battled through foul trouble…Mercyhurst ranks second in the GLIAC in both field goal percentage and three-point percentage … Achesinski is the third-leading scorer in the country among freshmen and ranks first in the country in field-goal percentage by a freshman. She is 13th overall in that category and is the only freshman in the top 60 in the country.
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Michigan
Technological University
Huskies
Michigan Tech finished the regular season at 13-5 in the league to claim its first GLIAC North Division Title since 2000-01. The Huskies have earned eight GLIAC titles in 33 years of women’s basketball … Tech will host Grand Valley State Saturday (March 1) in a GLIAC Tournament quarterfinal. The home playoff game will be the Huskies’ first since 2005-06 when they hosted Lake Superior State. Tech owns a 20-15 record in GLIAC tourney action including a 3-1 record in four meetings with GVSU. Michigan Tech is the only team in the GLIAC to qualify for all 18 league tournaments since its inception in 1990-91 … Senior Catherine Rottier (Seymour, Wis.) has tallied at least seven assists in six straight games to raise her season average to 6.0. The point guard has improved her school record season total to 156 and has become just the third player in school history to record 400 assists for her career … Sophomore Katie Wysocky (Whitefish Bay, Wis.), who already owns a school-record 268 rebounds this season, has moved onto the top 10 list for points in a season. with 436, for an average of 16.1 per game.
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Northern
Michigan University
Wildcats
The Northern Michigan University women’s basketball team stayed in the U.P. for its final two games of the 2007-08 season…The Wildcats lost at Michigan Tech on Wednesday (52-54) and then to Lake Superior at home on Saturday (64-79)…Allison Carroll, Kellie Rietveld and LaShawn Lambert each had 10 points against the Huskies…Kelsey Deacon led the ‘Cats against the Lakers with 19 points as she was 5-6 from the three-point line…Carroll in her final game in an NMU uniform against LSSU had 16 points and six rebounds…Carroll led the 2007-08 ‘Cats with 15.0 ppg, 5.7 rpg and 24 blocks…Deacon was second on the team in scoring (12.3 ppg), led the team in three-pointers with 61 and assists (70)…Freshman Steffani Stoeger led the ‘Cats with 60 steals.
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Northwood
University
Timberwolves
Northwood split its final two games of the regular season, falling at Grand Valley before defeating Saginaw Valley at home … the Timberwolves will host Ferris State in the opening round of the GLIAC Tournament Saturday night (March 1) at 6 p.m. … it will be the first GLIAC Tournament game in program history … NU enters the post season having won five of six, seven of nine and 10 of their last 13 … Northwood earned its first regional ranking in program history last week, placing ninth in the Great Lakes Region … the Timberwolves were led last week by junior Megan Starnes (Mt. Pleasant, Mich.), who averaged 18.5 points and 6.5 rebounds per game … she shot 52.0 percent from the floor for the week (13-25) … Starnes currently ranks eighth in the GLIAC in scoring (15.0 ppg) and fifth in rebounding (7.5 rpg) … sophomore Jodi Ostergren (Midland, Mich./Dow) shot 60.0 percent from the floor (12-20) last week while averaging 14.0 points per game … Ostergren ranks among the GLIAC leaders in field goal percentage (52.5 percent – 12th) and free throw percentage (79.1 percent – 10th).
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Saginaw
Valley State University
Cardinals
The Cardinals split their final two games of the season, defeating Ferris State on Thursday before falling in the season finale at Northwood Saturday night…Saginaw Valley finished the season with a 12-15 record overall and a 4-14 record in GLIAC play…LaTille Ross (Opelika, Ala./Alabama St.) scored 21 points and grabbed ten rebounds in the Cardinals 65-63 win over Ferris State…Ross also scored 20 points to lead the Cardinals in the four-point loss at Northwood…Ross finished the season ranked sixth in the GLIAC in points per game (15.9) and seventh in rebounds per game (6.9)…Tricia Everett (Saginaw, Mich./Swan Valley) finished the season as the conference leader in assists (6.44) and minutes played (38.59)…freshman Brittany Burkhardt (West Bloomfield, Mich./Walled Lake Central) ended the season on a high note, averaging 16.3 points and 8.3 rebounds per game in the month of February…Burkhardt finished the season ranked eighth in the GLIAC in rebounds per game…Kara Kinzer finished her career with 208 three-point field goals, the most in school history…Kinzer also led the GLIAC in three-point field goals this season with 67.
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Wayne
State University
Warriors
The Warriors lost back-to-back games last week for the first time since early January to fall to fourth place in the GLIAC South Division … in the setback at Ashland, junior Jasmine McCall (Detroit, Mich./CMA) scored in double figures for the 20th time this season by tallying a game-high 25 points … senior Nicole Rogers (Lansing, Mich./Everett) had a double figure rebound total for the third time this year and 14th in her career … junior Chastidy Miller (White Lake, Mich./Waterford Kettering) moved into third place on the WSU all-time free throws attempted list passing Lisa Gentry (386, 1981-85) with 388 on Thursday, then made 5-of-8 free throws on Saturday to move into second place on the WSU all-time chart with 293 foul shots made surpassing Ebony Vincent (2000-04), who made 291. … junior Joy Nash (Muskegon, Mich.) made a season-high seven foul shots going 7-for-7 from the line vs. the Eagles … she followed that with a team-best 16 points against Hillsdale … McCall had four steals in each game last week increasing her season total to 97 and moving past Pearly Cunningham (1984-85) for third place on the WSU single-season list.
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