WBB: Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference

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Score tied at 16 approx 11 1/2 min left in 1st

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UW-Whitewater up 28-21  approx 7 1/2 min left in 1st

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UW-Whitewater 31, Oglethorpe 25  Approx 5 min left 1st half

[Ralph Turner]

14-4 rally in the last 5 minutes by OU, OU leads 39-35 at the half.

I think that UWW is vulnerable to OU's athleticism.

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Stormy Petrels up 46-41  Approx 16 min left in 2nd

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UW-Whitewater 53, Oglethorpe 50  10 minutes left in 2nd

[Ralph Turner]

OU has missed several lay-ups off drives and penetration moves on the last few series.

UWW-W has a 10-0 run to get that lead at 53-50.

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UW-Whitewater up 10 with just over 3 minutes left:

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Final:  UW-Whitewater 80, Oglethorpe 67

[pbrooks3]

Still a good showing for Oglethorpe making the Final 4. If they get a true post player to work within the nucleus of the existing squad, next year should be promising for OU as well. No one can say that the SCAC doesn't have some quality women's basketball played.

[FlightofthePetrel]

Sitting at the airport in Grand Rapids waiting to come back to Atlanta, and I can't wait to get out of this snow.

After watching the talent level of basketball that was played this weekend I can honestly say we have to improve in order to be able compete with these girls again next year.  The girls have had an amazing run and I couldn't be more proud of this team.  Congrats to Oglethorpe's 1 senior Brittany Corbett for a stellar career.  After tearing her ACL her junior she came back for two more years (including her 5th year this season) to try and win a SCAC Championship- while the team came up short she was a huge part in getting this team where they were and she will truely be missed next year.

Congrats Lady Petrels!  Final 4

[FlightofthePetrel]

Congratulations to Katie Kulavic and Cassie Pruzin who were both named D3Hoops 4th team All Americans.

Also with her final 3 point basket of the year Anna Findley broke the Single Season mark for 3's made.  Anna finished the year with 87 breaking the 12 year old mark held by Casey Collins of Hendrix.  She now sits in 5th place with 223 three's made in a career... shouldn't be long before she catche's 1. Nichole Gilleland, Oglethorpe (00/01-03/04) 275.

[spfan22]

OU women had a great year.. i can bet that there's not alot of people who expected them to go as far as they did and beat so many good opponents along the way.. it seemed as if they just ran out of gas.. hats off to Messiah on Friday they played well and executed perfectly.. however I was not very pleased with the officiating on Saturday.. the big girls from UWW just bullied their way around in the paint and never got called for anything.. im pretty sure they would have outrebounded OU by twenty with some solid officiating.. but instead the rebound total was 69-30.. no disrespect to UWW because I thought they were a good team but they obviously benefitted from the way the game was being called.. maybe the officials were still hung over from the previous night (I spotted some officials at an irish pub on Friday night in Holland doing some drinking.. Im being serious by the way)

enough of being bitter.. Depauw finished the year ranked 5th followed by OU at 6th.. i figured this might be the case being that OU didnt play particularly well over the weekend and that 3 of their 7 losses came at the hands of Depauw.. Congrats to both.. that is very good for the SCAC to have two teams ranked in the top 10.. also Trinity played #11 Mcmurry very tough...

Last thing I would like to add.. Corbett from Oglethorpe guarded 4 all-american players along their way to the final four: Thiem from Thomas More, Vespa from William and Smith, Beyruti from Kean, and Lobach from Messiah... she absolutely locked down Theim.. Vespa had a below average game with 6 or 7 turnovers.. Beyruti did score 25.. but many of those points came after the game was pretty much decided and she only shot 8-21.. and Lobach had at best an average game.. she did a great job on all 4 and that would lead me to believe that maybe she deserved a little credit for her defense and maybe should have been considered a strong candidate for defensive player of the year.. her intensity on the defensive end was unmatched and OU will miss her defense and leadership next year..

[FlightofthePetrel]

maybe the officials were still hung over from the previous night (I spotted some officials at an irish pub on Friday night in Holland doing some drinking.. Im being serious by the way)

I can vouch for the seriousness of this comment     

While the team was not the beneficiary of stellar calls at least would it be fair that, because of your celebrity status from the newspaper, you benefited in at least one round? haha

[Ralph Turner]

OU women had a great year.. i can bet that there's not alot of people who expected them to go as far as they did and beat so many good opponents along the way.. it seemed as if they just ran out of gas.. hats off to Messiah on Friday they played well and executed perfectly.. however I was not very pleased with the officiating on Saturday.. the big girls from UWW just bullied their way around in the paint and never got called for anything.. im pretty sure they would have outrebounded OU by twenty with some solid officiating.. but instead the rebound total was 69-30.. no disrespect to UWW because I thought they were a good team but they obviously benefitted from the way the game was being called..

spfan22,

I am not sure how often you have closely followed a women's team from the South into the Midwest and Great Lakes, but that is a common complaint from us as we go north.

It is actually a common occurrence.  That is an acceptable style of play up there.  An occasional trip to DePauw may not bring that out as dramatically as the Final Four versus a team from the WIAC.

We usually don't have players who can mix it up in the paint that well, and our officials in the South do not become accustomed to that style of play.

I believe that it explains the success of HPU this year.  They were a very physical team.

If OU wishes to win it all, I believe that they must get several posts who can at least defend and score in that system of play.