PELLA, Iowa – No. 11/12 Womens basketball defeated Central College 64-54 Saturday afternoon. The win moves the Knights to 16-2 overall and 9-0 in American Rivers Conference play.
Game Summary
- First half
- First quarter
- Britney Young connected on a three for the first points of the game for the Knights to make it 3-2 Wartburg, early in the first
- Sara Faber stopped the 10-0 run by Central with a free throw followed by a layup by Young to cut the Dutch lead to six with 2:17 left in the quarter
- Finley Fitzgerald made a pair of free throws at the end of the quarter as Central took the 17-8 lead into the second
- Second quarter
- Macy Harris made a layup followed by a Jaedon Murphy three-pointer to cut the Central lead to eight with 6:25 remaining
- Harris made a pair of free throws before Taylor Runchey connected on a three-pointer on the next possession to make the score 22-18 with 5:01 left in the half
- The Knights finished the half on an 11-0 run; Murphy with four, Faber with three, and Lauren Woeste and Fitzgerald each with two, to tie it 29-29 going into the half
- Second half
- Third quarter
- The Knights got the scoring started in the second half with layups from Harris and Faber on back-to-back possessions to go up four, early in the half
- Murphy made two layups followed by a pair of free throws from Fitzgerald to give the Knights a 39-36 lead with 2:41 remaining in the quarter
- Faber finished the half with a pair of free throws to give Wartburg a 41-38 lead going to the fourth
- Fourth quarter
- Harris scored five-straight points to start the quarter to spark a 10-0 Wartburg run two minutes into the fourth
- Murphy connected on a three and Woeste made a layup
- Minutes later, Faber added to the lead with five points of her own as she made a layup and connected on a three-pointer to push the Knights lead to 16 halfway through the final quarter
- Murphy made a layup to stop a 7-0 Central run to make it 58-47, but Central went on another 7-0 and cut the lead to four with 1:22 remaining in the game
- Wartburg finished the game with six made free throws to win the game 64-54
- Murphy made four, Woeste and Faber each made one
Top Performers
- Jaedon Murphy
- 20 points
- Nine rebounds
- Two blocks
- One assist
- Sara Faber
- 14 points
- Nine rebounds
- Three assists
- One steal
- Macy Harris
- 11 points
- Three rebounds
- Two assists
- Three steals
Notes/Streaks
- Wartburg now leads the all-time series 66-22
- Have now won 23-straight games in this series
- The Knights made 10 more free throws than the Dutch
- Harris is now 13 points away from 1,000 in her career
- This was Murphy's third 20-point game of the season
- The Knights have won five-straight games
Next Time Out
Wartburg is back next week on the road at Luther Wednesday, Jan. 23 at 5:30 p.m.
