No. 3 Lady Blues top Bearcats after 50-point 1st half
Release date - Feb. 14, 2007

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MARYVILLE, Mo. – The No. 3 ranked Washburn Lady Blues scored 50 points in the first half and held off a Northwest Missouri comeback attempt in the second half in an 86-73 win over the Bearcats Wednesday night in Bearcat Arena. The Lady Blues will now return to action on Saturday morning in Emporia, Kan., against the No. 9 ranked Lady Hornets in game which will be nationally televised on CSTV starting at 11 a.m.
After putting up a first half season-high 50 points in the opening period, Washburn gave up 49 to the Bearcats who shot 57 percent in the second half hitting 21 of 37 attempts from the field. The Bearcats cut the lead from 26 at the break to as few as 13 with 5:05 remaining. However Northwest would get no closer as Megan Sullivan hit a jumper in the lane and Brooke Ubelaker hit back-to-back 3-pointers pushing the lead back to 18.
The Lady Blues jumped out to a 50-24 halftime lead as they started out the game 12 of 18 from the field pushing the early lead to 15 of 30. Washburn finished the half 20 of 36 from the field (56 percent) as Corkey Stiger and Ubelaker each scored 12 points in the opening period. The Lady Blues also held the Bearcats to 10 of 26 from the field and dominated on the boards holding Northwest to 11 rebounds overall, while the Lady Blues picked up 23. Washburn was also 7 of 15 from 3-point land compared to 2 of 10 from behind the 3-point arch for the Bearcats.
Ubelaker led the Lady Blues with 22 points in her school-record tying 125th start for Washburn. She also hit her 70th 3-pointer of the season, which is one shy of her school record 71 from last season.
Stiger finished with 18 off the bench. Jessica Aebi scored a career-high 16 points hitting 7 of 12 from the field. Megan Sullivan scored 12 points hitting 6 of 9 from the field. Cindy Keeley set a career-high with eight assists.

Notes:
* The 50 points scored by the Lady Blues was a season-high for points scored in the first half.
* Washburn won their seventh in a row over the Bearcats and improved to 13-4 all-time in games in Maryville.
* Ron McHenry improved to 14-3 all-time against the Bearcats.
* The eight assists for Keeley tied a Lady Blues season high for the year with Corkey Stiger who had eight against Missouri Western.
* The Lady Blues improved to 221-79 all-time in MIAA play.
* Brooke Ubelaker hit double figures for the 96th time in her career and scored at least 20 points for the 16th time in 125 career games.
* Amanda Holmes moved into the top 10 all-time on the career block chart with her 59th.
* The 70 field goal attempts for the Lady Blues was a season high.
* Washburn improved to 37-7 all-time against the Bearcats.