{"id":109897,"date":"2026-01-24T05:52:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T05:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/24\/womens-basketball-wollaps-pacific-lutheran-whitman-college-athletics\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T05:52:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T05:52:00","slug":"womens-basketball-wollaps-pacific-lutheran-whitman-college-athletics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/24\/womens-basketball-wollaps-pacific-lutheran-whitman-college-athletics\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s Basketball Wollaps Pacific Lutheran &#8211; Whitman College Athletics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"sidearm-story-template-text_post-3\">\n<aside class=\"sidearm-story-template-text-aside\" aria-label=\"Related Sport Links\">&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n &#13;<br \/>\n                    <\/aside>\n<p>                    <span id=\"docs-internal-guid-3d3daa59-7fff-efe5-94e4-09eb3ff08457\"\/><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-3d3daa59-7fff-efe5-94e4-09eb3ff08457\"><strong>WALLA WALLA, Wash.<\/strong> &#8211; The Whitman College women&#8217;s basketball team put together one of its most complete efforts of the season Friday night, rolling past Pacific Lutheran 89-50 in Northwest Conference play at the Sherwood Center.\u200b<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-3d3daa59-7fff-efe5-94e4-09eb3ff08457\">The Blues (10-6, 5-2 NWC) set the tone from the opening tip, racing out to a 26-13 lead after the first quarter and never looked back. Whitman&#8217;s defense forced 25 turnovers and turned them into 32 points on the other end, fueling a transition attack that kept the Lutes (1-15, 0-7 NWC) on their heels all night.\u200b<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-3d3daa59-7fff-efe5-94e4-09eb3ff08457\">Sophomore post <dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/athletics.whitman.edu\/sports\/womens-basketball\/roster\/emma-lena-baker\/5903\" rel=\"smarttag noopener\" rev=\"5903\" target=\"_blank\">Emma Lena Baker<\/a><\/dfn> powered Whitman with game highs of 18 points and 10 rebounds, going 8-for-15 from the field while controlling the glass on both ends. She scored 12 of her points in the first half as the Blues built a 51-29 advantage at the break and stretched the margin to 70-39 after three quarters.\u200b<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-3d3daa59-7fff-efe5-94e4-09eb3ff08457\">Whitman&#8217;s balance was just as important as Baker&#8217;s double-double. <dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/athletics.whitman.edu\/sports\/womens-basketball\/roster\/morgan-montgomery\/5911\" rel=\"smarttag noopener\" rev=\"5911\" target=\"_blank\">Morgan Montgomery<\/a><\/dfn> poured in 17 points on 7-of-9 shooting, including a pair of threes, while <dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/athletics.whitman.edu\/sports\/womens-basketball\/roster\/holly-morgan\/5907\" rel=\"smarttag noopener\" rev=\"5907\" target=\"_blank\">Holly Morgan<\/a><\/dfn> added 13 points and a team-high three steals off the bench to help Whitman&#8217;s reserves outscore PLU&#8217;s bench 24-12.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-3d3daa59-7fff-efe5-94e4-09eb3ff08457\"><dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/athletics.whitman.edu\/sports\/womens-basketball\/roster\/kaella-peters\/5909\" rel=\"smarttag noopener\" rev=\"5909\" target=\"_blank\">Kaella Peters<\/a><\/dfn> chipped in 14 points, knocking down four triples as the Blues finished 9-for-17 (52.9 percent) from beyond the arc.\u200b<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-3d3daa59-7fff-efe5-94e4-09eb3ff08457\">The Blues also dominated the paint, outscoring Pacific Lutheran 48-24 inside and holding a 33-22 edge on the boards. Whitman shot 56.9 percent from the floor overall and assisted on 17 of its 37 made field goals, showcasing crisp ball movement and unselfish play.\u200b<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-3d3daa59-7fff-efe5-94e4-09eb3ff08457\">Emi Wada led Pacific Lutheran with 14 points, while Sydney Reisner finished with 11.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-3d3daa59-7fff-efe5-94e4-09eb3ff08457\">The Blues get back at it on Saturday at 3:00 p.m. with a NWC contest against Puget Sound.<\/span><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-3d3daa59-7fff-efe5-94e4-09eb3ff08457\"\/><strong>#GoWhitman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>                    <button id=\"show-story-btn\">Read Full Article<\/button>\n                <\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/athletics.whitman.edu\/news\/2026\/1\/23\/womens-basketball-wollaps-pacific-lutheran.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#13; &#13; &#13; WALLA WALLA, Wash. &#8211; The Whitman College women&#8217;s basketball team put together one of its most complete efforts of the season Friday night, rolling past Pacific Lutheran 89-50 in Northwest Conference play at the Sherwood Center.\u200b The Blues (10-6, 5-2 NWC) set the tone from the opening tip, racing out to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":109898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109897"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}