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Elizabeth Lutz
73
Winner South Dakota SD 9-3,5-0 Summit League
56
Western Ill. WIU 3-12,2-5 Summit League
Winner
South Dakota SD
9-3,5-0 Summit League
73
Final
56
Western Ill. WIU
3-12,2-5 Summit League
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 F
South Dakota SD 15 26 20 12 73
Western Ill. WIU 15 16 7 18 56

Game Recap: Women's Basketball | | WIU Athletic Communications

WIU Falls to First-Place Coyotes

Western Illinois dropped a contest with the reigning Summit League champions on Friday (Jan. 22).

MACOMB, Ill.: The Western Illinois women's basketball team (3-12, 2-5) fell to the first-place South Dakota Coyotes (9-3, 5-0) 56-73 on Friday (Jan. 22). 

This week's Summit League player of the week, Evan Zars, recorded her third straight double-double (12 points and 12 rebounds.), and the conference leader in steals, Elizabeth Lutz, set a new career-high with seven swipes. The mark also is the most by a Summit player this year. 

The first quarter of action featured the three-ball. Back-to-back trifectas from Danni Nichols and Lutz tied it 8-8 (6:22). Then another shot from deep by Lutz gave WIU an 11-8 into the media timeout. 

South Dakota used its own shot from deep to tie it again, 13-13 at 2:01. Both sides entered the second tied 15-15 after a well-executed inbounds play set up Grace Gilmore for the late bucket. 

The second quarter witnessed four consecutive lead changes. USD grabbed control of the momentum with a 10-2 run to enter halftime ahead 41-31.

Western brought the deficit to nine on multiple occasions in the third, but a 13-0 Coyote run helped the reigning Summit League champions pull away and take game one. 

Game two is set for tomorrow at 4:30 p.m. and will serve as the #BeatType1 game as The Summit League, and Sanford Health are once again teaming up to bring awareness to Type 1 diabetes during the 2020-21 basketball season.  

To learn more about how you can get involved in assisting The Summit League in the fight against Type 1 diabetes, please visit thesummitleague.org/beattype1.

 
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