{"id":3288,"date":"2023-01-27T20:34:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T20:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/27\/womens-basketball-takes-down-ups-in-nwc-showdown-whitman-college-athletics\/"},"modified":"2023-01-27T20:34:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T20:34:00","slug":"womens-basketball-takes-down-ups-in-nwc-showdown-whitman-college-athletics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/27\/womens-basketball-takes-down-ups-in-nwc-showdown-whitman-college-athletics\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s Basketball Takes Down UPS In NWC Showdown &#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-b195276a-7fff-8cb7-ad71-4ac003e369a8\"\/><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-b195276a-7fff-8cb7-ad71-4ac003e369a8\"><strong>WALLA WALLA, Wash<\/strong>. <\/span>&#8211; <dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/athletics.whitman.edu\/sports\/womens-basketball\/roster\/korin-baker\/4648\" rel=\"smarttag noopener\" rev=\"4648\" target=\"_blank\">Korin Baker<\/a><\/dfn> delivered a double double with game-highs of 24 points and 10 rebounds, <dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/athletics.whitman.edu\/sports\/womens-basketball\/roster\/elena-mchargue\/4654\" rel=\"smarttag noopener\" rev=\"4654\" target=\"_blank\">Elena McHargue<\/a><\/dfn> chipped in 20 points and eight boards and the Whitman College women&#8217;s basketball team handed No. 17 Puget Sound its first league loss with a 61-50 win in a battle of Northwest Conference heavyweights on Friday night at the Sherwood Center.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-b195276a-7fff-8cb7-ad71-4ac003e369a8\">The game pitted the league&#8217;s top two teams and a nationally-ranked Logger squad who entered with an undefeated conference record. The win was a welcomed one for the Blues (11-6, 7-2 NWC) who atoned for their loss to UPS in the second game of the NWC season. Whitman needed to overcome 22 turnovers and did so by forcing the Loggers into a 26% shooting night and 15 turnovers of their own.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-b195276a-7fff-8cb7-ad71-4ac003e369a8\">Sophie Nilsson led the way for the Loggers (15-3, 8-1 NWC) with 16 points and eight rebounds, and Katie Minnehan added nine points and six rebounds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-b195276a-7fff-8cb7-ad71-4ac003e369a8\">The game was tight from the get-go with action back and forth right from the opening tip. Baker had it going early, hitting on her first three jumpers and scoring Whitman&#8217;s first seven points. After Samantha Swartout&#8217;s missed three pointer, McHargue led a fast break and found <dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/athletics.whitman.edu\/sports\/womens-basketball\/roster\/lindsay-drango\/4650\" rel=\"smarttag noopener\" rev=\"4650\" target=\"_blank\">Lindsay Drango<\/a><\/dfn> for an easy layup to put the Blues up 9-6. The Loggers later took a one-point lead, but Whitman ran off seven unanswered points in the final three-plus minutes and led 20-14 by quarter&#8217;s end.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-b195276a-7fff-8cb7-ad71-4ac003e369a8\">The second 10 minutes saw the intensity pick up as baskets for both teams were at a premium. The teams combined for less than 20 points in the period but it were still the Blues that took a 27-24 lead into halftime. Drango&#8217;s bucket had put Whitman up by eight points early in the quarter, but three pointers from Grace Pytynia-Hillier and Rebekah Desalla kept the Loggers in the game heading to the break.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-b195276a-7fff-8cb7-ad71-4ac003e369a8\">The offensive woes continued into the third quarter before both teams heated up in the final three minutes. Katie Minnehan&#8217;s layup cut the Whitman lead to one point, but Baker answered with a layup and McHargue drained a three pointer, her second of the quarter, as the Blues extended the lead to six points. Baker nearly got a three pointer to go at the buzzer but the Blues still carried their six-point lead into the fourth quarter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-b195276a-7fff-8cb7-ad71-4ac003e369a8\">The final quarter saw the Blues keep up with their defensive intensity and slowly pull away. Nilsson opened the quarter with a three pointer for the Loggers but McHargue answered right back with a triple of her own on the next possession. The fourth quarter offense (and defense) came alive for the Blues who held the Loggers scoreless for the next 7:51 while running off nine unanswered points. Whitman was solid at the charity stripe down the stretch and paced to the win.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-b195276a-7fff-8cb7-ad71-4ac003e369a8\">The Blues close out the weekend with a Saturday contest against Pacific Lutheran. Tipoff at the Sherwood Center is set for 4:00 p.m.<\/span><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-b195276a-7fff-8cb7-ad71-4ac003e369a8\"\/><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\/2023\/1\/27\/womens-basketball-takes-down-ups-in-nwc-showdown.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#13; &#13; &#13; WALLA WALLA, Wash. &#8211; Korin Baker delivered a double double with game-highs of 24 points and 10 rebounds, Elena McHargue chipped in 20 points and eight boards and the Whitman College women&#8217;s basketball team handed No. 17 Puget Sound its first league loss with a 61-50 win in a battle of Northwest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3289,"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\/3288"}],"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=3288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}