The University of Minnesota Crookston Golden Eagle Women’s Basketball team’s shooting woes returned on Friday as they only made 15 of 56 shots (27 percent) in a 67-45 loss to the University of Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs in a Northern Sun Conference game played in Crookston.
FIRST QUARTER
UMC took a 3-2 lead after a Mary Burke (Soph. Virginia) a little over a minute into the game. The next two minutes was back-and-forth and Duluth had a 9-8 lead with 6:09 left in the quarter. Duluth dominated the final six minutes of the quarter and ended on a 12-4 run for a 21-12 lead at the end of the quarter.
SECOND QUARTER
Duluth scored the first points of the second quarter and held a double-digit lead for the next six minutes of the quarter until Kylie Post (Jr. Corcoran) made two free throws to get UMC within a 33-24 deficit with 3:39 left in the half. Duluth responded with a 7-0 to end the half and took a 40-24 lead into halftime.
THIRD QUARTER
Duluth only scored four points in the second half and still had a 44-34 lead as UMC only outscored the Bulldogs 10-4 and trailed 44-34 going into the fourth quarter.
FOURTH QUARTER
Duluth flexed their muscles a bit in the fourth quarter and outscored UMC 23-12 to pull away for a 67-45 victory.
UMC drops to 3-6 in the NSIC North and 3-8 overall. UMD improves to 6-0 in the NSIC North and 6-0 overall. The teams will wrap up the weekend series at 1:30 p.m. on Saturday.
| 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | Final | |
| UMD | 21 | 19 | 4 | 23 | 67 |
| UMC | 12 | 12 | 10 | 11 | 45 |
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