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WBK v Rut-New Buse
71
Winner Whitman WCWBK 7-3, 2-0 NWC
40
Willamette WU 5-6, 0-2 NWC
Winner
Whitman WCWBK
7-3, 2-0 NWC
71
Final
40
Willamette WU
5-6, 0-2 NWC
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
Whitman WCWBK 29 42 71
Willamette WU 14 26 40

Game Recap: Women's Basketball | | Gregg Petcoff

Fast start leads to win over Willamette

SALEM, Ore. - Eleven unanswered points following the opening tip sent the Missionaries off to a resounding 71-40 Northwest Conference victory by Whitman College's women's basketball team Saturday afternoon at Cone Field House over host Willamette University.

Hallie Buse, Heather Johns and Hailey Ann Maeda combined to provide Whitman (7-4, 2-0 NWC) a double-digit lead over the Bearcats (5-6, 0-2) before Saturday's game was even four minutes old.

Maeda put back a Johns miss for the opening basket, Johns dropped in a pair of free throws on the next possession and then Buse drained a 3-pointer from the left wing to get the ball rolling. Layups from Maeda and Johns completed the 11-0 run.

The defensive pressure that kept Willamette off the scoreboard through the early going was persistent until the final horn, limiting the Bearcats to a 24 percent night and a total of only 13 baskets from the floor. Whitman also out rebounded the hosts by a 47-34 margin and registered six blocks, two each coming from both Katie Gray and Hailey McDonald.

Willamette did finally cut into the lead, but an Alysse Ketner jumper with a little more than seven minutes remaining in the first half provided the M's with a lead, at 23-12, that would remain in double-figures over the final 27 minutes of action. The Bearcats converted one of two free throws coming out of the halftime break -- at which Willamette trailed 29-14 -- for the second half's first points but another string, this one an 8-0 run, continued Whitman's dominence from the opening stanza.

The Missionaries finished the game hitting 48 pecent of their shots, many coming from close range where they scored 48 points from within the paint.

Johns finished with a game-high 16 points, with Maeda's 14 points and Buse's 11 joining Johns in double-digits on the scoresheet. Maeda's seven rebounds led all players on the glass. For Willamette both Ashley Evens and Marisa Hamilton registered double-figures, Evans with 11 and Hamilton contributing 10 in the loss.

Conference play continues in Whitman's next game as it finishes a three-game road swing to open league play at Whitworth University with a 6 p.m. game Tuesday in Spokane, Washington.
 
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