Women's Basketball gets solid defensive effort, holds off Baldwin Wallace 61-53 on Senior Night
By Tim Glon
ADA — Ohio Northern used a dominant defensive effort and 14 points from Lexi Jacobs (Wapakoneta) to post a 61-53 women's basketball victory over Baldwin Wallace on Senior Night at the ONU Sports Center Saturday.
The Polar Bears end their regular season 5-7 overall and 5-7 in the Ohio Athletic Conference, while the Yellow Jackets end up 8-4, 8-4.
ONU also got 10 points and eight rebounds from senior Emily Brock (Akron/Revere) and freshman Kristen Luersman (Fort Jennings).
"We did a good job of executing our game play," ONU head coach Mark Huelsman said. "We really needed our guards to be effective on the boards and that was a big part of the game. Stahler did a good job for us defensively. We were able to execute offensively in the last two minutes and close out the game. I am happy for Emily Brock to play well on senior night."
Ohio Northern entered the game with the league's best defense and was outstanding in the first 20 minutes, holding the Yellow Jackets to 4-of-28 shooting and led 25-13 at halftime.
A pair of free throws by Brock gave ONU a 44-29 lead with 7:52 left in the game.
BW chipped away at the deficit and got within 52-47 with 2:03 remaining.
But Jacobs got a basket at the 1:50 mark and junior Alissa Stahler (LimaShawnee) made a pair of free throws with 1:39 to go to put ONU up 56-47.
Brock scored again with 49 seconds to play and Northern led 58-49.
Brock iced the game with a pair of free throws with 11 seconds to play.
Ohio Northern finished the game 19-of-56 from the floor for 33.9 percent and made 6-of-17 3-pointers for 35.3 percent. Baldwin Wallace was 17-of-67 from the floor for 25.4 percent and made 3-of-26 from beyond the arc for 11.5 percent.
Northern out-rebounded BW 45-42.
The Polar Bears will be the No. 7 seed in the Ohio Athletic Conference Tournament next week. Ohio Northern will host No. 10 seed Heidelberg on Monday at 7 pm at the ONU Sports Center.
