On Thursday (Jan. 12) night in Painesville, Ohio, the top-ranked Ashland University women's basketball team played the middle game of a three-game road swing, topping Lake Erie, 98-64.
The Eagles remain one of just three undefeated women's basketball teams in NCAA Division II at 17-0 overall and 9-0 in the Great Midwest Athletic Conference, after outscoring Lake Erie 54-26 in the second half. The Storm are 6-8, 2-6.
This is the fourth consecutive game in which Ashland has scored at least 90 points (97, 90, 98 and 98).
Ashland continued to extend its Division II leads in field-goal percentage (58.8 on Thursday night) and assists per game (21), and didn't hurt its national standing in scoring margin, points per game and 3-point field goals per game (10).
Fifth-year guard
Hallie Heidemann scored 12 points on Thursday night, giving her 1,417 for her career – passing her head coach,
Kari Pickens, for 11
th place on Ashland's all-time scoring list.
THE WRAP-UP
- Five Eagles scored in double figures against the Storm. Sophomore forward Zoe Miller came off the bench for a team-high 18 points in 18 minutes on 8-of-10 shooting, to go with seven rebounds, and junior guard Macy Spielman added 15 points in 19 minutes off the bench.
- Rounding out the AU double-digit scoring were sophomore forward Hayley Smith (16 points in 19 minutes, nine rebounds, 7-of-10 shooting), Heidemann and senior forward Annie Roshak (12 points, 6-of-9 shooting).
- Ashland boasted a 39-28 rebound advantage, and turned the ball over just 12 times. The Eagles turned 16 Storm miscues into 19 points.
- Since the start of the 2007-08 season, Ashland has won all 18 meetings with Lake Erie.
- The Eagles are 94-3 all-time as the No. 1 team in the country, and 276-18 all-time as a ranked team in D-II.
UP NEXT
Ashland will finish its three-game conference road swing on Saturday (Jan. 14) at 1 p.m. at Walsh (6-9, 4-4).
