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| 2005-2006 Records: 0-0 MIAC, 1-1 Overall |
| Recent Results: Rockford Tip-Off Tournament UW-La Crosse 63, Saint Mary's 38 / Details Saint Mary's 62, MSOE 55 / Details |
| Upcoming Events: Wed., Nov. 30: St. Kate's at SMU, 5:30 p.m. Sat., Dec. 3: SMU at Augsburg, 1 p.m. |
| Cardinal News and Notes: Ashley Luehmann (Lewiston, Minn.) averaged 16.0 ppg — including a game-high 21 points in SMU's win over MSOE — and earned all-tournament honors at the season-opening Rockford Tip-Off Tournament. … Jessica Weisbrod (Rollingstone, Minn.), who averaged 12.5 ppg, collected the team's first double-double of the season vs. MSOE, scoring 14 points and adding 10 rebounds. … Danielle Dehning (Spring Grove, Minn.) missed her first collegiate double-double by one point, finishing with nine points and a game-high 13 rebounds vs. MSOE. … The Cardinals were outscored 58-40 in the first half of their two games in the Rockford Tournament. … As a team, SMU made just 7 of 37 3-point attempts (19 percent), with Luehmann scoring five of the seven 3-pointers. |
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Luehmann 16.0 ppg at Rockford |
One day after managing just 38 points in a disappointing 63-38 loss to UW-La Crosse, the Saint Mary's University women's basketball team found its shooting touch, as the Cardinals rode the red-hot shooting of Ashley Luehmann (Lewiston, Minn.) and Jessica Weisbrod (Rollingstone, Minn.) to a 62-55 victory over Milwaukee School of Engineering in the consolation game of the Rockford Tip-Off Tournament last Saturday.
"It was a tough start (to the tournament)," said SMU coach Dan Messmann, whose team shot just 31 percent from the field — including just 2 of 15 (13 percent) from behind the 3-point line — in falling to UW-La Crosse on Friday. "I think we had some first-game jitters. We've got a lot of young people in the lineup, and it showed.
"We struggled offensively early in the game and just never seemed to get things on track," said Messmann, who watched as UW-L went on a 17-3 run to end the first half in grabbing a commanding 35-12 lead at the break. "We played a little better in the second half, but we had dug ourselves such a deep hole (in the first half), it was just too much."
The Cardinals got things turned around a day later, getting a game-high 21 points from Luehmann and a 14-point, 10-rebound double-double from Weisbrod in posting their first win of the season.
SMU shot 41 percent from the field (11 of 27) in the first half to take a 28-23 advantage into the locker room at the intermission.
And it was more of the same in the second half as Luehmann netted 14 of her 21 points — hitting 3 of 4 field goals and adding a 6-for-7 effort from the free throw line — to help SMU pull away for the win.
"There were some good things, and some not-so-good things about the weekend," said Messmann, whose team is now off until Nov. 30, when they open conference play with a home game against St. Catherine. "Obviously we struggled offensively in the first game, but I thought we did a much better job (against MSOE). It's early in the season, and it's going to take us a while to get everyone on the same page.
"Hopefully we'll see more performances like (the MSOE game), and not many more like the La Crosse game."