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Ted Schwerzler/Concordia
60
Concordia University, St. Paul CU 10-17, 7-14 NSIC
64
Winner Northern State NSU 15-12,10-11 NSIC
Concordia University, St. Paul CU
10-17, 7-14 NSIC
60
Final
64
Northern State NSU
15-12,10-11 NSIC
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
Concordia University, St. Paul CU 24 36 60
Northern State NSU 27 37 64

Game Recap: Women's Basketball | | Concordia Athletic Communications

CU RALLY FALLS SHORT IN LOSS

ABERDEEN, S. D. - Concordia (10-17, 7-14 NSIC) rallied from 20 down with 9:21 left to get within two but came up short falling 64-60 to Northern State (15-12, 10-11 NSIC). Rachel Hansen (Eagan, Minn.) led the way in scoring with 16 points on 10-13 shooting from the foul line. Carissa Wolyniec (Minneapolis, Minn.) had 14 points. BOX SCORE

HansenFor the second straight night Concordia struggled to shoot the ball finishing the game 20-59 from the field and 3-19 from three point range. Concordia did hit 81% of their free throws hitting 17-21 but still came up just short. Posts Jodi Batzel (Rochester, Minn.) and Anika Whiting (Ashland, Wis.) finished with 11 and 10 points respectively. Northern State hit 9-15 from behind the arc which proved to be the difference in the game.

It was a closely contested first half as neither team led by more than four in the opening 20 minutes of play. There were five ties and six lead changes in the first half alone. CU held a 14-4 advantage in scoring in the paint and a 10-2 advantage in points off turnovers. Mary took the lead from CU with 1:11 left in the half with a three pointer and they never gave up the lead again.

The Wolves got a bucket to start the second half pushing their lead to five. After Batzel hit a lay up to draw CU with three, NSU went on a run. Northern State would go on a 15-2 run to take a 44-28 lead with 13:13 left in the game. The lead would grow to as much as 20 with 9:21 left as the Wolves led 55-35. 

Concordia did give up despite being down 20 and having their post season hopes killed last night as they tried to play spoiler for NSU. The comeback started with a made jumper by Wolyniec as CU would go on a 13-0 run behind six points from Whiting and five from Hansen to make the score 55-48. The Golden Bears kept creeping closer and cut the lead to just two with 23 second left as the run got to 24-6 over a matter of 8:58.

Down just three with 23 seconds left after a Wolves made free throws, Batzel made one of two free throws to get back within two with 14 seconds left. Alison Kusler would put the game away with 9 seconds left making a pair of free throws to go up four 64-60 and that is where the score stood.

With the loss Concordia will have at least 17 losses for the first time since 2000-01. It also marks the lowest amount wins since that season as well with CU's last game coming next Saturday at St. Cloud State.
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