Women's Basketball Makes It Nine Straight Wins - Defeats Findlay 67-53

OVERVIEW – FINDLAY

SCORE: Northwood Timberwolves 67, Findlay Oilers 53

RECORDS: Northwood (19-5, 15-1 G-MAC), Findlay (14-9, 10-6 G-MAC)

LOCATION: Riepma Arena – Midland, Mich.

RECAP: Women's basketball runs winning streak to nine with a 67-53 win over Findlay Thursday (February 12).

GAME STORY

• Northwood scored the opening six points of the game for the early advantage.
• Findlay responded with seven straight points to take their first lead of the game.
• That proved to be the only lead of the contest for the Oilers, as the Timberwolves put up the next seven points to go up 13-7.
• The Northwood lead stood at 15-13 after one quarter.
• NU scored the first five points of the second to go up 20-13.
• Northwood led by as many as 14 before holding a 29-19 lead at the break.
• The Timberwolves pushed the lead to 14 early in the fourth before Findlay fought back.
• UF got within five at 47-42 before Northwood scored the final basket of the quarter to make the score 49-42.
• After both teams struggled from the floor in the opening half, each side got hot in the third. Findlay was 9-11 from the floor (81.8 percent), while Northwood was 9-13 (69.2 percent).
• NU dominated the start of the fourth quarter to earn the win, scoring 11 of the first 12 points to push the lead up to 18 at 60-43.
• Findlay got no closer than 14 the rest of the way as the Timberwolves closed out a 14 point win.

GAME STATS

• FG PERCENTAGE: Findlay .406 (26-64), Northwood .585 (38-65)
• 3-PT PERCENTAGE: Findlay .433 (13-30), Northwood .529 (9-17)
• FREE THROW PERCENTAGE: Findlay .706 (12-27), Northwood .667 (10-15)
• REBOUNDS: Findlay 31 (13 offensive), Northwood 39 (11 offensive)
• ASSISTS/TURNOVERS: Findlay 16/21, Northwood 26/21

TOP NU PERFORMERS

• Maeve St. John: Seven assists, four rebounds, five points
• Lea Holmes: 13 points, seven rebounds, three blocks
• Alexa Kolnitys: 12 points, 5-7 from the floor
• Grace Isenhath: 11 points, four rebounds

NORTHWOOD NOTES

• Northwood led for 39:39 of the 40 minutes.
• NU now holds a three-game lead in the loss column in the G-MAC standings. Northwood (15-1) stands ahead of Thomas More (11-4) and Malone (11-4), who are currently tied for second. Northwood has five games remaining.

UP NEXT

• The Timberwolves host Cedarville Saturday (February 14). Game time is set for 1 p.m.