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WBB win 11-17-23 at SVSU
62
Winner Ashland AU 3-0,0-0 G-MAC
50
Saginaw Valley SV 0-3,0-0 GLIAC
Winner
Ashland AU
3-0,0-0 G-MAC
62
Final
50
Saginaw Valley SV
0-3,0-0 GLIAC
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 F
Ashland AU 15 22 10 15 62
Saginaw Valley SV 10 10 12 18 50

Game Recap: Women's Basketball | | Dusty Sloan, Ashland University Director of Athletic Communications

No. 1 AU Women Win At Cardinals To Begin Michigan Swing

Beginning a three-game, five-day road trip to Michigan on Friday (Nov. 17) night, the No. 1-ranked Ashland University women's basketball team fought off Saginaw Valley State and took a 62-50 in-region decision.
 
The Eagles move to 3-0 in 2023-24, and the win is their 40th overall consecutively. Ashland is the second NCAA Division II women's basketball program to have two separate 40-plus-game win streaks (D-II-record 73 and 40), along with North Dakota State (49 and 42).
 
SVSU is 0-3.
 
Ashland scored the game's first five points, then SVSU countered with the next six. The Eagles trailed 10-9 before scoring the last six points of the opening quarter, then extending that overall run at the start of the second period to 13-0 by scoring that stanza's first seven points.
 
By halftime, Ashland extended its lead to 37-20 – outscoring the Cardinals 28-10 after the 10-9 deficit. In the first 20 minutes, the Eagles kept SVSU to 0-for-7 from 3-point range and forced a dozen Cardinal turnovers.
 
Saginaw outscored Ashland in the third quarter, but the Eagles still took a 15-point lead into the final period at 47-32. Ashland kept the Cardinals at arm's length in the final period despite being outscored 18-15.
 
POST-GAME NUGGETS
  • Three Eagles scored in double digits on Friday night – fifth-year forward Annie Roshak (14 points), junior forward Zoe Miller (12 points) and senior guard Macy Spielman (11 points). Roshak became the fifth player in program history to score 1,900 career points (1,911).
  • Junior forward Hayley Smith grabbed 11 rebounds in the victory – giving her double-digit caroms in each of the season's first three contests (10, 11 and 11).
  • Ashland shot 51.2 percent from the field, 4-for-10 from 3-point range and 77.8 percent from the free-throw line, while keeping the Cardinals to 1-of-10 from beyond the arc and forcing 21 turnovers.
  • The Eagles have won 17 of the last 18 meetings with SVSU.
  • Friday's victory gives Ashland 299 all-time as a ranked team in Division II (299-18), and a 117-3 mark as the top-ranked team in the nation.
 
UP NEXT
The Michigan trip will continue on Sunday (Nov. 19) at 1 p.m. at Michigan Tech (3-0).
 
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