The UW-Oshkosh women’s basketball team clinched a share of the WIAC regular season championship against the UW-Stout Blue Devils with a 73-48 win Feb. 14.
The win comes after a stunning loss in Eau Claire 65-54, where the Titans shot 30.6% from the field, and 4-of-16 from deep, against a (at the time), 12-9 Blugolds team.
Only two players could get into double digits, Paige Seckar and Sammi Beyer. For Seckar it was a 24-point performance on 9-of-16 shooting, along with eight rebounds. Beyer struggled shooting, 4-of-15, and missed all four of her 3-point attempts, but ended up with 10 points to join Seckar. For the Blugolds it was not top scorer in the WIAC Kyla Overskei that led the team in scoring, it was actually the senior, Reanna Hutchinson, who led them in points with 15.
But the Titans shrugged off the loss to Eau Claire and used it as motivation to throttle a Stout team by 25 points. Flipping the script, they shot 54.2% from the field and 11-of-23 from 3-point range. Beyer poured in 22 points and much better splits, such as 8-of-14 from the field, but Sarah Hardwick, Seckar and Bridget Froehlke also put up double figures.
The latter stole the show with a season high 16 points and 4-of-5 shooting from beyond the arc. The Titans also forced 20 turnovers, but also turned it over an uncharacteristic 16 times.
In the game, Stout took a 4-2 lead two minutes in, but it would be their only lead, with the advantage ballooning to 30-8 four minutes into the second quarter, holding the Blue Devils to 19 in the first half and scoring 44 themselves.
The Titans look ahead to this week’s matchups, taking on the 15-8 UW-La Crosse Eagles this Wednesday at Kolf and at Berg Gymnasium in Stevens Point versus the 14-9 Pointers to end the season on Saturday.
After the regular season concludes, Feb. 25 will feature the first matchup for the Titans in the WIAC tournament at Kolf Sports Center, where they will face the winner of the No. 4 vs No. 5 matchup.
