Women's Basketball -- St. Mary's 70, Augsburg 65
MINNEAPOLIS -- Amy Burns (Fr., Winona, Minn./Cotter HS) had 16 points, including four 3-pointers, in leading her St. Mary's University women's basketball team to a 70-65 Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference victory over Augsburg College on Wednesday night at Augsburg's Si Melby Hall.
St. Mary's improves to 9-15 overall and 9-12 in the MIAC, while Augsburg falls to 3-21 overall and 3-18 in the MIAC.
Burns had a three-pointer and two assists in an 11-1 run in the first three minutes of the second half, turning a 30-29 halftime deficit into a 40-31 St. Mary's advantage. Augsburg cut the lead to two points twice later in the second half, but could not wrest the lead from the Cardinals in the remainder of the game.
Kelly Gleason (Jr., Prior Lake, Minn.) had 15 points and 10 rebounds, while Jenny Long (So., Westmont, Ill./Montini HS) had 12 points and nine rebounds. Molly Hollenkamp (Jr., South St. Paul, Minn.) had eight points and a game-high 14 rebounds.
Jill Ruprecht (Sr., Glendale, Wis./Nicolet HS) led the all scorers with 20 points and pulled down seven rebounds for the Auggies, who had broken a 12-game losing streak with a victory over Hamline on Monday.
Liz Meskan (So., New Prague, Minn.) had 14 points, eight rebounds, four assists and four steals for Augsburg, while
Adrienne Tietz (Jr., Shakopee, Minn./Monticello HS) had 10 points and eight rebounds.
Augsburg hosts St. Olaf in its season finale on Friday night at 7:30 p.m., while St. Mary's wraps up its season with a 3 p.m. game Saturday at Concordia-Moorhead.
Women's Basketball -- St. Mary's 70, Augsburg 65
Feb. 22, 1999 at Si Melby Hall, Minneapolis, Minn.
Attendance: 150.
Technical Fouls: None.
Score by Periods 1st 2nd Total
St. Mary's University (9-15 overall, 9-13 MIAC) 29 41 70
Augsburg College (3-21 overall, 3-18 MIAC) 30 35 65
St. Mary's University (70) FGs 3FGs FTs O-D--Reb PF Pts. Ast. Trn. Blk. Stl. MP
*10 Amy Burns 5-9 4-4 2-2 0-3--3 0 16 2 8 0 1 27:22
20 Alissa Erichsen 2-4 1-2 3-4 1-1--2 2 8 1 1 0 1 18:34
*22 Jenny Long 5-8 1-3 1-2 1-8--9 3 12 1 6 0 0 34:42
*24 Kelly Gleason 7-12 0-0 1-3 4-6--10 2 15 0 3 0 0 29:33
34 Tiffany Hansen 2-3 0-0 0-0 2-0--2 1 4 0 4 0 1 12:14
42 Sara Schachtner 0-3 0-0 0-0 0-2--2 2 0 1 0 0 0 15:57
*44 Elizabeth Ori 1-5 0-0 1-2 1-1--2 3 3 2 3 0 0 27:08
*50 Molly Hollenkamp 1-4 0-1 6-8 2-12--14 2 8 1 2 0 0 26:32
52 Shannon McCluskey 1-3 0-0 2-2 0-2--2 4 4 0 1 0 1 7:58
Team 2-0--2 0
Totals 24-51 6-10 16-23 13-35--48 19 70 8 28 0 4 200:00
Deadball Rebounds: 3
Field-goal shooting: First half--8-22 (36.4%), Second half--16-29 (55.2%), Total--24-51 (47.1%)
Three-point shooting: First half--4-7 (57.1%), Second half--2-3 (66.7%), Total--6-10 (60.0%)
Free-throw shooting: First half--9-13 (69.2%), Second half--7-10 (70.0%), Total--16-23 (69.6%)
Augsburg College (65) FGs 3FGs FTs O-D--Reb PF Pts. Ast. Trn. Blk. Stl. MP
*23 Liz Meskan 6-16 1-3 1-3 6-2--8 3 14 4 4 0 4 29:21
24 Jenni Eilertson 1-3 1-3 2-4 1-1--2 0 5 1 1 0 2 25:03
*30 Lisa Laine 1-5 1-5 0-0 0-1--1 0 3 0 1 0 2 18:10
42 Leslie Lucas 2-5 0-0 0-0 3-3--6 4 4 0 2 0 1 19:44
*44 Erin Brockberg 1-3 0-0 0-1 3-0--3 2 2 5 3 0 1 20:28
*50 Jill Ruprecht 7-18 0-0 6-9 3-4--7 1 20 0 1 0 0 32:01
51 Jaime Kingsley 2-3 0-0 0-0 1-0--1 2 4 0 1 0 0 6:07
52 Rachael Ekholm 1-17 1-7 0-0 0-0--0 5 3 1 1 0 3 26:58
*53 Adrienne Tietz 4-7 0-0 2-4 5-3--8 5 10 0 1 0 1 22:08
Team 1-4--5 0
Totals 25-77 4-18 11-21 23-18--41 22 65 11 15 0 14 200:00
Deadball Rebounds: 4
Field-goal shooting: First half--11-36 (30.6%), Second half--14-41 (34.1%), Total--25-77 (32.5%)
Three-point shooting: First half--2-10 (20.0%), Second half--2-8 (25.0%), Total--4-18 (22.2%)
Free-throw shooting: First half--6-10 (60.0%), Second half--5-11 (45.5%), Total--11-21 (52.4%)
