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Become a fan of Ursuline Basketball on FacebookCEDARVILLE, Ohio - The Ursuline College basketball team had its season come to an end Thursday (March 5) night with an 85-54 loss to third-seeded Kentucky Wesleyan College in the quarterfinal round of the Great Midwest Athletic Conference postseason tournament.
Ursuline, the final team to make it into the six-team tournament, finished the year at 8-21 overall. KWC, now 19-8, advances to Friday's (March 6) semifinal round to take on second-seeded Trevecca University at 5:00 p.m. The two teams split their regular season meetings.
Early on, it looked like Ursuline had a chance to pull off the upset. Freshman guard Camille Gist hit a layup with 11:31 to go in the first half that put the Arrows in front by five, 18-13. Over the next four minutes, however, the Panthers went on a 10-0 run to take a 23-18 lead and they never looked back.
Kentucky Wesleyan led at halftime, 37-25. Early in the second period, UC senior guard Brianna Woods fed classmate Emma Ricketts for a layup that made it a nine-point game (41-32) but then KWC pulled away thanks to a 25-10 run that grew the lead to 24 at 66-42 with a little more than eight minutes remaining.
Ricketts and sophomore guard Erica Huber both scored 11 points to lead the Arrows. UC did a nice job on the glass and lost the rebounding battle by just two, 44-42. Ricketts, who was named to the conference's second team earlier in the day, pulled down a team-high eight and freshmen forwards Camryn Hill and Madison Schroeder each had seven rebounds.
Woods, the school's all-time leader in assists, finished with nine points and two helpers in her final collegiate game.
KWC's Jennifer Walker-Crawford had game-highs of 13 points and nine rebounds while Jordanne Gambill, Haley Cook and Katie Miller all chipped in 10 points. Cook and Miller combined for 20 off the pine and led the Panther Bench Bunch which finished with 42 points compared to 16 from UC's second unit.
One of the big factors in deciding the outcome was turnovers. Ursuline turned the ball over 25 times and forced Kentucky Wesleyan into 10 mistakes. The Panthers had 30 points off turnovers and the Arrows finished with six.
UC was 2-17 (11.8 percent) from beyond the arc and KWC shot the three-ball at a 33.3 percent clip (5-15). The Arrows were 17-52 (32.7 percent) from the field and allowed the Panthers to go 31-70 (44.3 percent) and get 36 points in the paint.
