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. Games
Northwestern - 52
Augsburg - 37
Hamline - 59
CSB - 38
6:50 P.M. Games
UW-River Falls - 40
GAC Gold - 37
GAC Black - 52
St. Kate's - 32
7:45 P.M. Games
Carleton - 77
St. Olaf - 52
Macalester - 46
GAC Alumni - 42
Not much in the way of drama in the 6:00 P.M. slot on this night.....Over on Court 1, the Augsburg team and the Northwestern team were going head to head and the latter would get out to a very good start; building a 7-2 advantage by the 17:55 mark of the first half and widening that lead to 20-4 by the 13:00 mark. The Augsburg team would continue to struggle offensively as the Northwestern team would up the lead to 23-6 with 9:00 left and hold a 28-11 lead with just under four minutes left. By the halftime break, the Northwestern team was up comfortably 36-17 and they would continue this beat once the second half got underway as they enjoyed a 42-24 advantage by the 14:40 mark. By the midway point of the second half, the Northwestern team was enjoying a 49-28 lead and although the Augsburg team was able to cut into this deficit a bit down the stretch of the second half, the Northwestern team was still enjoying a 50-35 lead with 5:00 left as they had things in cruise control the rest of the way. Over on Court 2, things would be tight early on between the CSB and the Hamline team and the CSB team was clinging to a 6-5 advantage by the 16:50 mark of the first half. But things would start going south for the CSB team as the Hamline team was able to get on a spurt and grab a 14-9 lead by the 11:40 mark. The Hamline team would stretch their lead to nine at 23-14 with 7:00 left and with 4:05 left they were still keeping the CSB team at bay up 25-17. By the halftime break, the Hamline team grew their lead to double-digits up 37-25. Not much would change after the short intermission either as the Hamline team was enjoying a 41-28 advantage by the 16:00 mark of the second half and that lead would balloon to 48-30 near the midway point. The CSB team would make one last-ditch effort to try and cut into this deficit as the reduced to it sixteen at 53-37 with 5:00 left but bringing this one back was going to be a bridge too far as this Hamline team, which has looked very sharp as of late, rolled to victory.
Over on Court 1 in the 6:50 P.M. slot, the St. Kate's team and the GAC Black team were going at it and the St. Kate's team certainly got the kind of start it wanted, bolting out to a 7-2 lead by the 18:10 mark of the first half but it didn't take the GAC Black team long to respond as they would have the deficit whittled down to two point at 7-5 by the 14:55 mark and they would have this one leveled at 7-all by the 14:00 mark. Things would still be even at eight a piece by the 11:30 mark before the GAC Black team was finally able to poke its nose out in front at 11-10 with 8:10 left. The GAC Black team would increase its lead to four at 17-13 with 4:00 left and and 4-0 push by the GAC Black team down the stretch had them up 21-13 by the halftime break. This extended dry spell by the St. Kate's team would prove costly on this night as the GAC Black team would get its lead to double-digits at 27-17 by the 18:15 mark of the second half and that lead would stretch to 35-19 by the 16:00 mark. By the midway point of the second half, the GAC Black team held a comfortable 43-25 lead and although the St. Kate's team was able to trim the deficit down to fifteen with 7:00 left at 45-30, the GAC Black team would up its lead to 52-32 with 3:30 left as they coasted to the easy victory. Meanwhile, one of the two best games of the night was taking place over on Court 2 between the UW-River Falls team and the GAC Gold team. The GAC Gold team would hold a 5-0 lead at the 18:45 mark of the first half thanks to a "3" by junior-to-be Maddy Rice at the 18:45 mark of the first half. But this didn't seem to faze the UW-River Falls team that managed to turn the tables a bit and take an 8-6 advantage by the 14:55 mark. Things would continue to stay tight with the GAC Gold team holding an 11-10 lead near the midway point of the first half but again this UW-River Falls team would come back and grab a one-point advantage at 12-11 with 6:16 left. The UW-River Falls team would be up 17-13 with 2:25 left but the GAC Gold team would have things tightened up again down just one by the halftime break at 17-16. The GAC Gold team would respond early on in the second half and take an 18-17 lead on a pretty drive and finish by sophomore-to-be Riley Queensland at the 18:30 mark and by the 13:58 mark the GAC Gold team would still be up 22-20. But the UW-River Falls team would not be denied on this night as they would retake the lead at 25-22 by the midway point of the second half and they maintained this three-point edge up 30-27 with 6:07 left. It was here the the UW-River Falls team made a decisive move with a 7-2 push to make it 37-29 with 4:17 left and arguably had the GAC Gold team in a very bad spot. But the GAC Gold team wasn't about to hit the panic button as they clawed their way back to cut the deficit to four at 37-33 with 3:40 left and they would soon get back to within a single possession down 35-35. A back-breaking "3" by the UW-River Falls team pushed their lead to five at 40-35 left but the GAC Black team would again get back to within a single possession again down 40-37 with just :41.5 left in regulation. But UW-River Falls played stellar defense when they had to and limited the looks the GAC Gold team was looking for from behind the arc in the waning moments and got the big victory.
In the 7:45 P.M. slot, the two rivals out of Northfield - the Carleton team and the St. Olaf team - were going at it. The Carleton team would hold a 4-0 lead by the 16:00 mark of the first half and would be up 13-7 by the 11:25 mark. By the midway point of the first half, the Carleton team's lead was stretched to ten points at 17-7 and things only got worse from there for the St. Olaf team. The Carleton team would be up 31-12 with 6:15 left and by the halftime break, the Carleton team was up 41-26. The Carleton team would be up by twenty at 49-29 by the 15:37 mark of the second half and although the St. Olaf team would briefly cut into that deficit a bit down 56-39 with 9:15 left, the Carleton team would slowly but surely build up their lead again and with 3:20 left they were running away with this one up 70-45. A much closer game meanwhile was taking place over on Court 2 between the Macalester team and the GAC Alumni team. The Macalester team would get off to a hot start in this one up 9-2 by the 17:30 mark of the first half but the GAC Alumni team would hunker down and get this one leveled at 9-all by the 12:38 mark. The GAC Alumni team would push ahead at 11-10 by the midway point of the first half but a "3" by the Macalester team would put them back up 13-11 a short time later; indicative of how this game was going to go. Defense would rule things over the next few minutes with things knotted at 13 a piece with 6:30 left but then the Macalester team caught the GAC Alumni team off guard and unleashed a 7-0 run that had them up 20-13 with 2:40 left and they would maintain this seven-point cushion down the stretch of the first half and enjoyed a 22-15 lead by the halftime break. The GAC Alumni team knew it had work to do coming out of the break and they slowly closed the gap. The Macalester team would still be up 24-18 by the 18:00 mark of the second half and by the 15:00 mark that lead shrunk further down to five at 26-21. By the 12:35 mark, the GAC Alumni team made further inroads on this deficit down 32-28. Alarmed by these developments, the Macalester team sought to re-establish the earlier cushion that they had and a "3" by senior-to-be Celine Sabbagh got their lead back up to six at 35-29 with 9:35 left. A stubborn GAC Alumni team would again scratch and claw its way back to reduce the deficit to a scant two points at 37-35 with 5:50 left. But just when it looked like the GAC Alumni team was poised to keep its unbeaten record intact and snare control of this one down the stretch, the Macalester team got a huge boost when junior-to-be sharpshooter Solana Cushing unleashed a three-point bomb that pushed their lead back to six with 4:05 left and the GAC Alumni team could never quite recover from that as the Macalester team recorded a big victory.
Had to head out before the 8:40 contest took place.....I don't have any of the details yet but looks like at least one more week of action before the curtain closes on the Midtown YWCA Women's College Summer League for this year so do try and get on down this next Wednesday night.
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