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Titans End Season With Loss To Blue Devils

Box Score

UW-Stout scored nine of the game's final 10 points to pull out a 65-60 women's basketball win over UW-Oshkosh on Saturday (Feb. 18) in Kolf Sports Center. The contest was the last of the season for both teams.

UW-Oshkosh (7-18/1-15 WIAC) held a 59-56 lead after Ashley Winterfeldt's (Jr. • Hortonville) lay-up with 3:05 remaining. UW-Stout (7-18/3-13 WIAC) tallied the next four points before Alicia Tollefson (Fr. • Crystal Falls, Mich.) hit a free throw to tie the score at 60. UW-Stout then took the lead on Shelby Sterba's two foul shots with 59 seconds left.

UW-Oshkosh missed its last three shots in the closing minute, while Katelynne Folkers sank a trio of free throws to clinch the victory. The tight game featured 11 ties, and the Blue Devils' balanced attack was the difference. Eight UW-Stout players scored at least four points, including a 12-point outing by Bethany Reyzer.

UW-Oshkosh's Katie Kitzke (Jr. • South Milwaukee) made all eight of her free throws to finish the contest with a game-high 17 points. The Titans also obtained 12 points, five rebounds and four assists from Megan Wenig (Jr. • Oshkosh). Kelsey Myklebust (Sr. • Wisconsin Dells) notched nine rebounds and seven points in her 101st and final game.

Opening the contest, UW-Oshkosh hit 10 of 13 shots to go ahead. Leading 15-14, the Titans rattled off eight straight points, with the final five by Heather Conroy (Fr. • Wisconsin Dells). Her jumper gave UW-Oshkosh a 23-14 lead with 11:07 left in the first half.

Reyzer then heated up with a pair of long-range jump shots. She turned her second three-point basket into a four-point play, tying the score at 26. UW-Stout's 18-5 scoring run ended with a three-point play from Whitney Rawdon that put the visitors up, 32-28.

UW-Oshkosh trailed 37-34 at halftime but refused to go away. After Kitzke assisted on a Wenig three-point basket, Wenig set up Kitzke for her own three-point hoop that tied the contest at 42. Tollefson later scored a basket in the lane to make it 46-46 with 12 minutes remaining.

While both teams struggled to convert from the field, the Titans knocked down four free throws to pull within 51-50. Wenig swished a mid-range jumper at the 5:37 mark to again tie the score at 55.

The Blue Devils recorded 12 steals, including five apiece by Rawdon and Kayla Windt. Rawdon totaled eight points, to go with 11 points and six rebounds from Folkers.

UW-Stout finished with 37.5 percent (21-56) shooting from the field, including 44.4 (4-9) behind the three-point line. The Blue Devils shot 63.3 percent (19-30) from the free-throw line while collecting 38 rebounds and committing 13 turnovers.

UW-Oshkosh took advantage of its 20 free throws by making 17 for 85-percent marksmanship. The Titans added 3-of-12 shooting (25 percent) from the three-point area and 38.5 percent accuracy from the field (20-52). UW-Oshkosh grabbed 36 rebounds and turned the basketball over 20 times.