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Kate Sherwood
Kate Sherwood matched her career-best with 19 points in the win over Ashland.
64
Ashland AU 8-6,8-6 GLIAC
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Winner Wayne St. (MI) Wayne 8-6,8-6 GLIAC
Ashland AU
8-6,8-6 GLIAC
64
Final
65
Wayne St. (MI) Wayne
8-6,8-6 GLIAC
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 F
Ashland AU 11 17 20 16 64
Wayne St. (MI) Wayne 22 14 16 13 65

Game Recap: Women's Basketball | | Jeff Weiss, Senior Associate Director of Athletics/Media Relations

Women's Basketball Hangs On To Defeat Ashland, 65-64

Warriors end 12-game losing streak to the Eagles.

DETROIT – The Wayne State University women's basketball squad (8-6 overall and GLIAC) ended a 12-game losing streak against Ashland University (8-6 overall and GLIAC) with a 65-64 triumph Tuesday evening at Matthaei.  The victory also snapped a seven-game home court losing skein to AU and moved the Warriors into a tie-for-fourth in the GLIAC standings with the Eagles.

FIRST HALF RECAP
Playing its final regular-season home game of the year, the Warriors started strong scoring 10 of the first 13 points with senior Tori Perez (Belleville, Mich.) scoring on a lay-up and a triple giving the hosts a 10-3 lead just over 3:30 into the contest.

After back-to-back hoops by Ashland, WSU went on a 9-0 run keyed by five points from junior Kate Sherwood (Canton, Mich. / Belleville).

The Eagles scored the next four points, but Wayne State responded with an 8-0 run that carried over into the second period.

A triple by freshman Jolee Houle (Zeeland, Mich. / Grand Haven) just over four minutes into the second quarter extended the Warrior advantage to 17 (30-13).

AU's Makenna Geiser scored the next five points and Erin Daniels drained a three-pointer to cut the WSU lead to nine (30-21) with just over four minutes left before intermission.

Perez scored on consecutive Wayne State possessions to increase the margin to 13 (34-21).  Ashland ended the opening half on a 7-2 run cutting the Warrior lead to eight (36-28) at halftime.

The Eagles held an 11-2 edge in points off turnovers in the opening 20 minutes as WSU had nine turnovers to just two miscues by AU.

SECOND HALF RECAP
Junior Sam Cherney (Farmington Hills, Mich. / North Farmington) and Sherwood scored in the first 80 seconds of the third period pushing the lead to 12 (40-28).

WSU's lead remained between six and 10 points with Wayne State taking a 50-40 advantage with 4:08 left in the third quarter on a steal and fast-break lay-up by Sherwood.

That would be the Warriors last made field goal for over 10 minutes.

The Eagles concluded the period on an 8-2 run to pull within four (52-48) after 30 minutes.  Hallie Heidemann had two triples during the AU run.

Ashland knotted the score at 54-54 with 7:15 left on another shot from beyond the arc by Heidemann, then took its first lead of the game as a Karlee Pireu lay-up gave the visitors a 56-54 lead.

AU had a pair of four-point leads (58-54 and 60-56), before an 8-2 spurt by Wayne State regained the lead at 64-62.  Sophomore Kate McArthur (Warren, Mich. / Cousino) had a pair of triples sandwiched around a jumper by Sherwood.

Pireu made two foul shots with 1:47 left to tie the game at 64-64.  Both teams failed to score on its next possession, before Sherwood was fouled with 49.5 seconds left.  She made the first but the rebound on the second shot went out-of-bounds off an Eagle player.

Sherwood's lay-up attempt as the shot clock was winding down was blocked by Sydney Jacobsen.  Ashland called two timeouts in the final 16 seconds, but a last second shot by Pireu was blocked by Cherney preserving the win.
 
LEADING THE WARRIORS
Cherney was on her way to a triple-double finishing with 12 points, 19 rebounds which equaled a career-best, and a career-high eight blocks.  Sherwood matched her career-high with 19 points, while Perez contributed 11 points.

LEADING THE EAGLES
Pireu scored a game-high 22 points with Heidemann chipping in with 14 points.  Annie Roshak and Jacobsen tied for team-high honors with five rebounds apiece.

TEAM STATS
After shooting just 26 percent (5-of-19) in the first quarter, Ashland finished at 39 percent (25-of-64) from the floor.  Wayne State connected on 41 percent (25-of-61) of its field goal attempts.  WSU was 8-of-20 (40 percent) from beyond the arc, compared to 36 percent (8-of-22) for AU from three-point range.  The Warriors made 7 of their 11 free throw attempts (64 percent), with the Eagles shooting 75 percent (6-of-8) from the charity stripe.  Wayne State had a 48-31 edge in rebounding.

UP NEXT
Wayne State will conclude the regular-season with back-to-back road series starting this Friday at Saginaw Valley State (Friday at 5 pm, and Saturday at 3 pm).




 
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