winona, minn. - facing a 22-point deficit with just a quarter of the game remaining, the concordia university women's basketball team (6-8, 3-5 nsic) rallied but in the end fell short in a 64-51 road loss at winona state on saturday afternoon at mccown gym. box score

concordia committed 22 turnovers to dig themselves into the large hole, but senior tori lythjohan (cedarburg, wis.) buried three three-pointers in the final 10 mintues to help spark the rally.

she was aided by junior anne skriba (la crosse, wis.), who scored six points in the final five minutes of play.

but the couldn't get closer than 9-points behind, 60-51 with 2:01 to play, as the warriors were able to hold onto the win.

lythjohan scored nine points in the game off the bench, adding three rebounds. Skriba had eight points on 4-6 shooting off the bench.

freshman anika whiting (ashland, wis.) had nine points and eight rebounds while playing 37 minutes and sophomore rachel hansen (eagan, minn.) had seven points and five assists.

the warriors were led by michelle mcdonald's 19 points on 8-13 shooting, playing 28 minutes off the bench. Katie wolff had 14 points and five rebounds with four assists. Nearly half of wsu's 64 points came off the bench, as their three reserves that played scored 31 points.

despite a sluggish first half as concordia trailed 38-20 at the break, the teams finished with nearly identical shooting performances. Concordia out-shot wsu by a slim margin, 42.9% to 42.3%, and out-shot them from three-point range as well, making 5 to wsu's 4 in a similar amount of attempts (14 to 11).

concordia also won the rebound battle 32-26 but it came down to turnovers as the warriors had 14 steals leading to a 25-11 margin in points off turnovers.

the golden bears look to snap their five game losing streak tomorrow afternoon with a road game at upper iowa at 2:00 p.m. At dorman gymnasium in fayette, iowa.