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Bench Play Delivers Pointers'
Victory at Platteville
Box Score
It seems almost whoever UW-Stevens Point
turned to off the bench on Wednesday delivered as the Pointers� reserves
combined for 47 points to lead the team to a 76-65 women�s basketball
win at UW-Platteville.
The Pointers had three bench players in double
figures and held UW-Platteville�s bench to a combined two points in the
victory. The win keeps UW-Stevens Point in fourth place in the Wisconsin
Intercollegiate Athletic Conference standings with a 17-6 overall record
and 9-6 league mark. UW-Platteville fell to 9-15 overall and 3-12 in the
WIAC.
Janell Van Gomple led the Pointers with 16
points off the bench, while Jessi Sporle had a big all-around game with
10 points, 10 rebounds and six assists. Haley Houghton scored 14 points
in a reserve role, while Chelsea Kranz led the starters with 14 points.
UW-Platteville�s Liz Tesch led all scorers with 26 points.
The Pointers took an early 13-6 lead and led
the entire game. UW-Stevens Point was ahead 22-16 with nine minutes left
and neither team scored for nearly four minutes before the Pointers
finally pulled away with a 10-0 run. Van Gomple and Sporle combined for
nine of the points and UW-Platteville went until the 2:46 mark until
finally scoring. The Pioneers didn�t get another field goal until a
three-pointer by Lisa Wubben with 33 seconds left. Houghton added a
basket in the closing seconds to give the Pointers a 36-21 halftime
cushion.
UW-Stevens Point opened the second half with a
7-2 spurt for a 20-point lead at 43-23, holding the Pioneers to one
field goal over the first 6:26 of the half. UW-Platteville crawled to
within 52-43 with 9:29 remaining, but Sporle hit back-to-back field
goals and Houghton capped a 17-4 run with a three-pointer for a 69-47
advantage with 5:52 remaining.
UW-Stevens Point led 73-50 with four minutes
remaining, but the Pioneers used a late 15-1 run to tighten the final
margin.
The Pointers shot 57.4 percent from the field
and held UW-Platteville to 35.6 percent shooting, though the Pioneers
were 21-for-23 at the free throw line. |
