Yellowjackets report: UWS women's basketball ushered out of NCAAs
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Mar. 9—MOORHEAD — Wisconsin-Superior women's basketball cut a double-digit deficit down to three points in the third quarter but couldn't quite get all the way back in an eventual 73-61 loss to 19th-ranked Concordia-Moorhead in the first round of the NCAA Division III tournament on Friday, March 6.
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UWS struggled in the early going against the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference regular-season champions. The Cobbers jumped out to an 11-2 lead while UWS went 11-for-30 from the field and 1-of-11 from 3-point range in the first half.
UWS started the second half down 36-24 and gave up a 3-pointer on the first possession but clawed back into the game in the third quarter, as a 18-6 run over the first eight minutes made it 45-42.
However, Concordia finished the quarter on an 8-0 run and kept UWS from getting any closer than seven points down the stretch.
Charlotte Ferstl led UWS with 14 points on 7-for-11 from the field.
The Yellowjackets finish their season with a 12-16 record.
Pitcher Abby Mitchell started Wisconsin-Superior softball's annual Spring Break trip with a four-hit shutout as the Yellowjackets defeated Marietta 2-0 on Saturday, March 7 in Viera, Florida.
Mitchell (Carlton/Wrenshall) struck out four and didn't allow a walk.
UWS got its offense in the fourth inning on Tessa Twedt's RBI double and an RBI single from Samantha Swartz.
UWS lost its second game on Saturday 4-3 to Concordia-Moorhead in Melbourne, Florida on a walk-off wild pitch.
Peyton Bennett was 2-for-4 with two doubles and scored twice.
Sunday, March 8 was similar, starting with a 3-1 win over Shenandoah in Melbourne.
Mitchell allowed one run on seven hits, while Peyton Bennett was 2-for-3 with a homer.
A two-out, two-run double from Kylie Zwak (Duluth East) sent the Yellowjackets' second game on Sunday, vs. Cornell College (Iowa), to extra innings, but Cornell claimed a 3-2 walkoff win in the eighth inning.
Twedt was 3-for-4 with a double, while Karen Balabon had two hits.
UWS (5-5) was scheduled for six more games in Florida throughout the week.
A doubleheader split with Beloit in Winter Haven started Wisconsin-Superior's spring baseball trip to Florida on Sunday.
The Yellowjackets won the opener 5-4 with help from a first-inning grand slam by Devin Frydenlund. UWS scored its five runs on only two hits, as the grand slam came after Beloit walked the bases loaded, and the other run was a fourth-inning sacrifice fly.
Beloit won game two 9-2, holding UWS to four hits, two of them by Tyler Fitzgerald.
UWS (3-3) was scheduled for six more Florida games through Saturday.