Here are the results of the games I got to cover this last Wednesday night at the Midtown YWCA Women's College Summer League:
6:00 P.M. Game
UW - River Falls - 79
CSB - 50
6: 50 P.M. Games
Hamline - 48
GAC Black - 41
GAC Gold - 78
Northwestern - 66
7:45 P.M. Games
Macalester - 42
Java - 25
GAC Alumni - 50
Bethel - 43
Just one game in the 6:00 P.M. slot on this night which at least made things a little easier for me. On Court 2, things would be tied up early on between the UW-River Falls team and the CSB team with a 4-4 tie at the 18:30 mark of the first half but the UW-River Falls team would unleash their trademark three-point shooting to forge an 11-6 advantage by the 16:00 mark. The CSB team, however, would come right back and trim the deficit to just one at 11-10 in the span of a minute; showing that they too can unleash a burst of offense. The UW-River Falls team would find a second wind and some more breathing space as well with a 17-12 lead by the 13:30 mark and they would maintain this five-point edge up 22-17 by the midway point of the first half. The UW-River Falls team would up their lead to seven points at 26-19 with 8:15 left but the CSB team would crawl back to within striking distance once again down 28-24 with 6:05 left. The UW-River Falls team would manage to get their lead back up to six at 32-26 and they would hold a 37-32 lead at the halftime break. The CSB team hoped to tighten things up again once the second half got going but this is where the UW-River Falls team unleashed a series of knockout punches. Two quick scores out of the gate pushed the UW-River Falls team's lead up to double digits at 42-32 by the 18:33 mark of the second half and by the 15:30 mark, the UW-River Falls team expanded the lead to fifteen points at 47-32 and another three-point bomb made it 50-32 a short time later. By the midway point of the second half, the UW-River Falls team was enjoying a 61-39 advantage and with just 5:55 left in the contest, the UW-River Falls team was cruising up 67-41 so there was little doubt on how this one was going to end.
Two much tighter contest took place during the 6:50 P.M. slot. Over on Court 1, a good one was brewing between the GAC Black team and the Hamline team. The GAC Black team would hold a 4-3 edge by the 17:50 mark of the first half and that lead would increase to 7-3 on a three-point bomb at the 17:30 mark. By the 12:50 mark, the GAC Black team was enjoying a 12-7 advantage but this Hamline team was proving to be one tough customer as they sliced the deficit down to one point at 14-13 by the 10:50 mark and less than a minute later they would snare the lead away up 15-14. The GAC Black team would get things knotted up at 17 a piece with 7:45 left and things would still be tied at 19-all with 5:00 left. So while things would stay tight down the stretch of the first half, the Hamline team would find a late spurt and take a somewhat surprising 28-24 lead by the halftime break. The GAC Black team would come right back and get things tied up at 28 a piece by the 18:00 mark of the second half and things would still be deadlocked at 32 a piece by the 15:00 mark. The GAC Black team would take a brief 35-34 lead but things would soon go south for them. A "3" would have the Hamline team back up at 37-35 just past the midway point of the second half and the Hamline team would maintain the upper hand with a 41-37 advantage with 6:45 left. With just over five minutes left, the Hamline team expanded their lead to seven at 44-37 and they would maintain that seven point edge down to the stretch to claim a big win. Over on Court 2, the GAC Gold team was taking on the Northwestern team and the former would get off to a very good start; taking a 5-0 lead by the 18:30 mark of the first half and increasing that lead to 10-2 by the 17:00 mark. A pretty jumper by junior-to-be Anna Sanders gave the GAC Gold team an 18-9 lead at the 12:55 mark and then fellow junior-to-be Maddy Rice would start showing off her three-point prowess with a bomb to give the GAC Gold team a 21-12 lead at the 12:45 mark. By the midway point of the first half, the GAC Gold team would hold a double-digit advantage up 26-15. The Northwestern team wasn't letting this one get too far out of hand but the GAC Gold team still held a 29-20 lead with 6:15 left and with 2:25 left they still held that nine-point cushion up 34-25. A tough finish by GAC Gold's Maddy Rice that drew a foul along with the obligatory "and one" had the GAC Gold team in very good shape up 37-27 by the halftime break. And the GAC Gold team certainly had no intentions of letting their foot off the accelerator anytime soon once the second half got going as they would increase their lead to 40-29 by the 18:40 mark. Sanders would uncork a "3" at the 15:33 mark to give the GAC Gold team a 51-33 lead and then Maddy Rice would unleash a back-breaking "3" to make it 59-39 by the 12:40 mark. The Northwestern team seemed to be in an impossible position by this point but they were able to slowly cut into this deficit down the stretch. With 5:35 left they had reduced the deficit to fourteen at 68-54 and with 1:30 left they had reduced it to ten at 73-63 but bringing this one all the way back would prove to be a bridge too far as the GAC Gold team got the comfortable victory.
Two more interesting games in the 7:45 P.M. slot.....Over on Court 1, scoring would come at something of a premium as both the Macalester team and the Java team had trouble getting untracked offensively. Things would be knotted at two a piece at the 18:00 mark of the first half and by the 15:00 mark not much had changed with thing leveled at 4-all. The Macalester team finally found some semblance of offense as they managed to grab a 9-4 lead by the 12:00 mark and still led 11-7 near the midway point of the first half. The Java team managed to tighten things up a little; closing to within a single possession down 13-10 with 7:45 left and the Java team would stay within striking distance for a good chunk of the remainder of the first half as being down just 15-12 would suggest but this is where the Macalester team made a decisive 6-0 spurt to take a 21-12 lead by the halftime break. That would probe to be the turning point in this one as the Java team could never get back to within striking distance again. The Macalester team would hold a 25-17 lead at the 16:00 mark of the second half and would up that lead to nine again at 27-18 at the midway point of the second half. The Macalester team would still enjoy that nine-point cushion up 30-21 with 7:50 left and would add a little insurance down the stretch with a 34-23 advantage enroute to the victory. A highly-anticipated match-up meanwhile was taking place over on Court 2 between the GAC Alumni team and the Bethel team. The Bethel team would get off to a very good start in this one; holding a 9-2 advantage at the 17:20 mark of the first half but it didn't take too long for the GAC Alumni team to unleash its primary weapon - Miranda Rice (GAC '18). Two quick Miranda Rice scores would get this one tied up at nine a piece by the 15:10 mark and things would stay pretty much even down the stretch. The game would be knotted at 13 a piece with 8:00 left and the Bethel team would cling to an 18-17 lead with 5:33 left but this is where the GAC Alumni team would go on a 7-0 run to hold a 24-18 advantage by the halftime break. The GAC Alumni team would increase its lead to 34-26 when Kendall Thompson (GAC '19) connected with a lay-up at the 15:10 mark of the second half but the Bethel team would hang tough; managing to trim the deficit down to four at 36-32 by the 13:00 mark. But this GAC Alumni team was simply proving to be too strong on this night as they would unleash another run to increase their lead to 41-32 by the midway point of the second half and would still be in control up 48-39 with 4:45 left. The GAC Alumni team's Lindsey Johnson (GAC '16) may have made the play of the evening with her steal and drive that included a behind-the-back dribble and pretty finish to make it 50-40 with 2:10 left as the GAC Alumni recorded yet another tough but decisive victory.
One more week of the regular season coming up this next Wednesday night so make sure to get on down to the Midtown YWCA Women's College Summer League to catch all the action.
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