{"id":111944,"date":"2026-02-15T01:41:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T01:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/15\/womens-basketball-tops-lewis-clark-remains-in-hunt-for-a-nwc-title-whitman-college-athletics\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T01:41:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T01:41:00","slug":"womens-basketball-tops-lewis-clark-remains-in-hunt-for-a-nwc-title-whitman-college-athletics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/15\/womens-basketball-tops-lewis-clark-remains-in-hunt-for-a-nwc-title-whitman-college-athletics\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s Basketball Tops Lewis &#038; Clark, Remains In Hunt For a NWC Title &#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-2026bc66-7fff-e4ad-2eb1-da77c2e5036a\"\/><strong><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-2026bc66-7fff-e4ad-2eb1-da77c2e5036a\">WALLA WALLA, Wash.<\/span><\/strong> \u2013 The Whitman women&#8217;s basketball team sent its seniors out in style Saturday afternoon, leading wire to wire in a 67\u201358 Northwest Conference win over Lewis &amp; Clark in the regular-season home finale at Sherwood Center.\u200b<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-2026bc66-7fff-e4ad-2eb1-da77c2e5036a\">Whitman (17\u20136, 12\u20132 NWC) raced to a 25\u201315 lead after the first quarter behind a fast start from its backcourt and never trailed, answering every River Otter push with timely shots and commanding work on the glass. The Blues&#8217; victory evens the season series after a road loss at Lewis &amp; Clark earlier this year and keeps Whitman firmly in the hunt near the top of the conference standings.\u200b<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-2026bc66-7fff-e4ad-2eb1-da77c2e5036a\"><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> paced Whitman with 14 points on 5-of-10 shooting, adding four rebounds, two assists and a steal as she repeatedly carved up the defense in transition and off ball screens. <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> posted a double-double with 11 points and a game-high 10 rebounds, including six on the offensive end, to anchor a 38\u201322 Whitman advantage on the boards. <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> added 12 points and six rebounds, hitting three 3-pointers and going 3-of-4 at the free throw line in the closing seconds to seal the outcome.\u200b<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-2026bc66-7fff-e4ad-2eb1-da77c2e5036a\">Whitman&#8217;s depth again proved to be a difference-maker, as <dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/athletics.whitman.edu\/sports\/womens-basketball\/roster\/sumi-leavell\/5905\" rel=\"smarttag noopener\" rev=\"5905\" target=\"_blank\">Sumi Leavell<\/a><\/dfn> delivered 10 points in just 16 minutes off the bench, while <dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/athletics.whitman.edu\/sports\/womens-basketball\/roster\/briana-andrade\/5902\" rel=\"smarttag noopener\" rev=\"5902\" target=\"_blank\">Briana Andrade<\/a><\/dfn> chipped in seven points, four rebounds and two assists. The Blues finished with 15 assists on 26 made field goals, moving the ball crisply to generate open threes and high-percentage looks in the paint. Whitman shot 40.0 percent from the field and 28.6 percent from beyond the arc while limiting Lewis &amp; Clark to 34.5 percent overall.\u200b<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-2026bc66-7fff-e4ad-2eb1-da77c2e5036a\">The Blues did much of their damage inside, piling up a 32\u201320 scoring edge in the paint and a 17\u20137 margin in second-chance points thanks to relentless work on the offensive glass. Whitman also converted Lewis &amp; Clark&#8217;s 16 turnovers into 17 points and held a 14\u201310 edge in fast-break scoring, consistently turning stops into runouts.\u200b<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-2026bc66-7fff-e4ad-2eb1-da77c2e5036a\">Lewis &amp; Clark (6\u201317, 3\u201311 NWC) was led by Kaitlen Carns&#8217; game-high 21 points, as the guard hit four 3-pointers and went 7-of-12 from the field. Lilly Jordan added 10 points, and Ali McCauley supplied nine off the bench, but the River Otters were never able to erase Whitman&#8217;s early double-digit cushion despite trimming the deficit to single digits in the fourth quarter.\u200b<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-2026bc66-7fff-e4ad-2eb1-da77c2e5036a\">Whitman will close out the regular season on the road next weekend at Puget Sound and Pacific Lutheran with hopes of clinching a conference title.<\/span><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-2026bc66-7fff-e4ad-2eb1-da77c2e5036a\"\/><strong>#GoWhitman<\/strong><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                    <button id=\"show-story-btn\">Read Full Article<\/button>\n                <\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/athletics.whitman.edu\/news\/2026\/2\/14\/womens-basketball-tops-lewis-clark-remains-in-hunt-for-a-nwc-title.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#13; &#13; &#13; WALLA WALLA, Wash. \u2013 The Whitman women&#8217;s basketball team sent its seniors out in style Saturday afternoon, leading wire to wire in a 67\u201358 Northwest Conference win over Lewis &amp; Clark in the regular-season home finale at Sherwood Center.\u200b Whitman (17\u20136, 12\u20132 NWC) raced to a 25\u201315 lead after the first quarter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":111945,"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\/111944"}],"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=111944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}