Women Win For a Spot in Title Game
03/12/07
Led by senior Sarah McGill, the Indiana Wesleyan
women’s basketball team had its best shooting game of
the season Monday in a surprise blowout of Cedarville
(Ohio). In a battle of two No. 1 seeds, the Wildcats
won 93-56 in a NAIA Division II National Tournament
semifinal game that was never close.
IWU (37-0) will
play in its first-ever national championship game
tonight at 7:30 p.m. The Wildcats play the winner of
tonight’s Ozarks-MidAmerica Nazarene (Kan.) semifinal
contest.
Sarah McGill scored 31 points to lead
Indiana Wesleyan. She hit 13 of 17 shots and 5 of 7
from the free throw line. McGill, who was three
points away from tying a career high, scored 21
points in the first half and achieved her game-high
total in 26 minutes of playing time.
Indiana
Wesleyan shot 62 percent from the field (38 of 61),
their highest percentage of the tournament. The
Wildcats drained 11 of 18 shots from 3-point
range.
The Wildcats hit their first five shots and
took a 12-4 lead in the game’s first four minutes.
IWU hit 11 of its first 13 shots as its lead grew to
17 eight minutes into the game. After that the
Wildcats never led by less than 12 points, and were
up by as many as 38 in the second half.
