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FREMONT, Neb. – Midland University’s women’s basketball team dominated Doane University from start to finish with a final score of 91-55 Wednesday night.
Midland started the first quarter slow, as Doane scored the first four points of the game. Peyton Wingert led the Warriors’ response, scoring four straight to pull eve. A Lexis Haase three-pointer gave Midland their first lead at 7-6 and they never looked back. Midland caught fire from behind the arch knocking down four of their first five attempts from long-distance. They would close out the quarter on a 19-8 run and took a 26-14 lead. It was their largest scoring output in the opening quarter all season.
Doane cut down the 12-point lead to seven but Midland continued their barrage of three-pointers as they knocked down four more in the second quarter. Three-pointers came from Lexi Kraft, Kennedy Darner, and Wingert with two. While the Warriors were catching fire from outside, Erin Prusa was going on a scoring rampage herself inside the paint. She scored 10 points in the opening half as Midland took a 33 point lead, 51-21 into intermission.
Midland shared the wealth of scoring as their lead grew to as many as 48 points in the third quarter. They closed out the period with Taylor Houska hitting back-to-back three-pointers with another three coming from Carissa Wilson.
The fourth quarter saw the Midland offense turn to a more calm output as they scored just 12 points with several reserves seeing extended minutes. The entire team that dressed for the game saw at least four minutes of action and 11 different Warriors scored in the game.
Midland finished shooting 34-of-68 (50 percent) from the floor and 14-of-34 (41.2 percent) from behind the arch. They won the rebound battle 45-32 and forced Doane into 20 turnovers.
Prusa finished the night with a new career-high of 20 points, shooting a perfect 9-of-9 from the floor and 2-of-2 from the free-throw line. She led a Midland bench that scored 46 points.
Emma Shepard finished with eight points, Houska had seven, Darner had five, and Wilson and Frankie Klausen would both finish with three points each, all from the bench.
Wingert was the second-leading scorer for Midland with 15 while Katy Gathje also reached double-figures with 10.
Midland (15-9, 12-9 GPAC) will now have a lengthy ten-day break before they conclude the regular season with a trip to Hastings, Nebraska for the last regular-season game. They’ll take on the Hastings (6-16, 5-15 GPAC) in a 2:00 p.m. game inside Lynn Farrell Arena on Saturday, February 20. The Warriors won the first meeting 82-78 back on November 18, 2020.
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