WBB: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[Hoosier Titan]

I neglected to mention a couple of key highlights from the IWU-Chicago game.  1)  Claire Sheehan's defense on top Chicago scorer Brianne Halfhill was outstanding.  Halfhill scored only 5 points, well below her 15 point average.  2)  I mentioned Nikki Preston several times in the first post, but every player off the IWU bench made meaningful contributions.  They outscored the Chicago bench 23-12 with several of their baskets coming at key times as Chicago tried to make a run.

The Pantagraph's story is here:
http://www.pantagraph.com/articles/2008/12/14/usports/doc4944857d7f5a3177366414.txt

[RogK]

To add a comment to HT's report on the IWU game - this was my first look at them and I was impressed by the few minutes played by Titan freshman Kylie Castans. She quickly burried a three and appears to be a confident, competent addition to the IWU roster.
Millikin won twice, with Kayla Pembrook turning in 16 pt, 12 reb and 22 pt, 15 reb games. Against Fontbonne, Elise Wildman scored 33, adding 12 reb. Tracie Yantis had 5 steals.
Augie lost to DePauw.
North Central shot .544 while defeating Loras, 76-68. Brianne Parra made 10 of 13 FG attempts.
Elmhurst sped past Dubuque 89-69. Brittany Bobruk grabbed 12 rebounds in only 21:00 of play.

[RogK]

Carthage rolled to an easy 66 - 40 victory tonight over Lawrence on the practice court of the NBA Orlando Magic in Maitland, FL.
Lawrence kept at it, but were clearly overmatched in talent, size and depth by the Lady Reds.
Lisa Gartelos led Carthage with 12 pts and 5 rebs in 16 efficient minutes.
The opening game of the evening saw Elmhurst get clunked by Hope College, 72 - 49. The Bluejays shot just .246 FG%; Hope's defense can take some credit for that, but not all.

[RogK]

Saw the 2nd set of games last night.
Lyndsie Long had a very sharp game (27 pts, 3 steals, 8 rebs) to lead Elmhurst over Lawrence, 76-65.
Carthage played Hope tight in the 1st half (30-27) but the Flying Dutch intensified their defense in the 2nd half and pulled away, winning 64-46. Nevertheless, many Lady Reds played well. Hope is just too dang good.

[Titan Q]

IWU has lost All-American PG Mallory Heydorn for a month or so...

http://www.pantagraph.com/articles/2008/12/19/usports/doc494b26859139e060456485.txt

[Gregory Sager]

Mount Mary has bowed out of NPU's tourney at the last minute, so today's portion of the tournament will only include the Lakeland vs. MacMurray game. NPU will play the winner tomorrow afternoon.

[mr_b]

Mount Mary has bowed out of NPU's tourney at the last minute, so today's portion of the tournament will only include the Lakeland vs. MacMurray game. NPU will play the winner tomorrow afternoon.

That's really last minute on their part.

[Hoosier Titan]

Presumably Mount Mary's cancellation is due to weather.  Everything is closed here in Bloomington, including IWU.  We're waiting to hear whether the games here are still on. 

[Hoosier Titan]

As of now, the games are still on in Bloomington:  5:15 IWU women against Fontbonne; 7:30 men against Chicago.  I will post if anything changes.

[Titan Q]

IWU 101
Fontbonne 53

[Hoosier Titan]

IWU cruised to a 101-53 victory over Fontbonne at the Shirk Center early Friday evening.  Titan coach Mia Smith made a virtue out of necessity in trying several players at the point guard position due to Mallory Heydorn's stress fracture.  Mallory is expected to be out for a month.   Holly Harvey started in Heydorn's place and acquitted herself well, especially on both sides of the press.  Nikki Preston, Hope Schulte, Karen Solari, and Kylie Castans all took turns in the position as well.  The game ball goes to Claire Sheehan whose 24 points (8/12 from the field, 3/4 on 3's, 5/6 on FTs), 4 assists, and 2 steals added up to an outstanding game.  Christina Solari missed a double double for the first time all season but still was a major contributor with 16 points and 7 rebounds.  The Titans shot well:  51.6% on FG for the game and 87.5% on free throws. Preston and Schulte scored 9 points each, and Stacey Arlis impressed with her movement in the low post to score 6. 

For the Griffins, Calli Collier contributed 19, 9  on 9/10 shooting at the free throw line.  Mallory Ludwig was 4/4 in the low post to score 8.

The Griffins have had a brutal schedule:  over the last 10 days they've played Rust, Eureka, Illinois College, Wash. U., and Millikin before tonight's game at IWU.  The Titans are next in action on Dec. 27 against Linfield in the Puget Sound Winter Classic in Tacoma, Washington.

[Gregory Sager]

Mount Mary has decided to trek into the big city today. It'll play the loser of yesterday's game, MacMurray, at 1 pm today while NPU takes on the winner, Lakeland, at 3 pm.

[Titan Q]

Some video from the IWU game yesterday from a local TV station sportscast...

http://centralillinoisproud.com/content/fulltext/?cid=38231

[Hoosier Titan]

ICN5, the local station which covers the Titans' games, also has video highlights of all men's and women's games online:
http://www.icn5.com/homepage.html
Click on "sports" to the left and then "ICN5 replay."

[Hoosier Titan]

Here's the direct link to that ICN5 page.  Thanks to Titan Q for pointing this out--I don't get this when on the replay page, but the link does work.
http://www.icn5.com/replay.html