![]() ![]() Hill has 1563 points after her 16 against OKWU. ![]() Hill needs just six points to become Wesleyan's all-time scoring leader in women's program history. Hinz did pick up the double-double with 14 points and 13 rebounds as KWU outrebounded OKWU 46-37 in the game. "This was every bit of a late January basketball game in this conference," Showman said.Īmanda Hill led the Coyotes with 16 points and just missed a double-double with nine rebounds. Hinz would hit 1 of 2 free throws to give KWU a 53-51 lead with 14.6 left setting up the wild finish. KWU led 50-42 with four minutes left in the fourth, but OKWU would cut to difference to a point with 42 seconds left. She would follow with a 3 that gave the Coyotes a 33-29 lead, capping a 9-2 run to start the quarter.Ī free throw by Bowman with 35 seconds left in the third gave the Coyotes a 44-34 lead, their biggest of the night. The third quarter was pivotal for the Coyotes, who grabbed their first lead of the game with 6:44 left in the period on a bucket by Amanda Hill (SR/Rossville, Kan.) that made it 30-29. The Eagles took a 27-24 lead into the half. The Coyotes fell behind by as many as seven points in the second, 16-9, but used an 8-2 run to get back within a point at 18-17 on Catherine Bowman (FR/Bucklin, Kan.)'s bucket with 6:04 left in the half. ![]() OKWU led 11-5 when Emily Rank (SR/Kansas City, Kan.) scored and was fouled as time expired in the first, cutting the difference to four after a quarter. The teams combined for only seven points over the first seven and a half minutes of the game which included a three and a half minute period where no one scored until OKWU's River Jeffries hit a shot with 2:27 left in the first to make it 6-3. Our defense stepped up when they needed to and won that possession and ultimately won the game." "They knew we were going to be in man (defense), they had a play drawn up and it was 'us against you'. "At this point in the season you have to go make a play," he said. Showman was proud of his team's effort on the final sequence. The ball was loose at the top of the circle, but the Eagles found a wide open Antonia Porter who missed the shot badly and Hinz grabbed the rebound as the clock ran out securing the win for the Coyotes. Oklahoma Wesleyan had a look at the final shot of the game, inbounding the ball in its own half with 14.6 seconds left. KWU's effort of the defensive end was phenomenal against a team that likes to shoot the 3-point shot, as KWU held OKWU to just 28.6 percent shooting from 3, including 3 of 12 in the second half for just 25 percent. To hold a team like this to 33 percent shooting, 28 percent from 3, and 51 total points, that's a credit to the team and their locked in mindset defensively." "We talked about how tonight wasn't our night offensively, even though we found a way in the third quarter, and we did just enough in the fourth," KWU head coach Ryan Showman said. Points were at a premium for both teams in the game, as both ended the contest shooting 33 percent from the field, with the Coyotes holding a brief advantage shooting 33.9 percent compared to the Eagles' 33.3 percent. The game came down to a final shot by OKWU which was missed badly and Kelcey Hinz (SR/Whitewater, Kan.) would grab the rebound as time expired giving the Coyotes their third win in a row heading into Saturday's match up at Ottawa. Kansas Wesleyan used a big third quarter and a solid fourth defensively to hold on for a 53-51 win over Oklahoma Wesleyan on Wednesday night inside Mabee Arena. ![]()
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