No. 9 Eagles Outlast No. 12 Dragons In OT Semis Thriller, Lose League Title To No. 2 Panthers

The No. 9-ranked Ashland University STUNT team won a 16-15 overtime thriller on Saturday (March 29) afternoon over No. 12 Tiffin to begin the 2025 Great Midwest Athletic Conference Championship, but lost in the title game on Saturday night to No. 2 Davenport, 24-3.
 
Ashland, the two-time defending Great Midwest champion coming into the day, is 21-7 going into the final weekend of the regular season.
 
"This is the most points we've scored against them," said Ashland head coach Denise Farnsworth of the Davenport contest. "We went in with some personal goals that we had set, and we knew we were pretty outmatched from the get-go."
 
In the semi against the Dragons, the game was knotted at 5-5, 6-6, 7-7 and 13-13, then at 14-14 at the end of regulation.
 
"Overtime is stressful, and I love that Ashland got to see it finally," noted Farnsworth, following the first AU OT game at home in program history. "It was fun to see the crowd's response."
 
Said senior flyer/tumbler Alyssa McLaughlin, "I feel like it really prepares us, because at nationals, there's a lot of really close games."

McLaughlin paced the Eagles vs. the Dragons with 53 points. Four AU players had 10 points each against the Panthers - McLaughlin, senior flyer/base/tumbler Chloe Colvin, sophomore flyer/tumbler Savanna Mahaffey, and sophomore base/tumbler Kayla Bumgardner.
 
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The 2025 regular-season finales at home on April 5 – 10 a.m. vs. Heidelberg and 1:45 p.m. vs. St. Elizabeth.