PARKSIDE 80, PURDUE NORTHWEST 57

The Rangers improved to 7-10 this season as they defeated the Purdue Northwest Pride at home. Redshirt-senior Blair Arthur led Parkside with 16 points. The teams wore yellow shoelaces for Lace Up 4 Pediatric Cancer in partnership with Go4theGoal.

HEAR FROM COACH CONELY

"It was a good team win today against Purdue Northwest," first year head coach Jen Conely said. "It was great to see everyone play-I thought everyone made a positive contribution on the court."

"I loved our intensity in the second quarter and I thought this was a big reason why we won today," Conely added. "Offensively, we moved the ball around pretty well and had a balance in scoring."

"It's great competing at home," Conely concluded. " I know we are looking forward to next week."

FIRST HALF

The Pride were able to get on the board first, but their early jumper was followed by a 3-point basket by redshirt-senior Blair Arthur. In the first quarter, both teams went even and because Parkside had two different players get bloody noses, some unexpected stoppage time was used. The quarter expired with the Rangers leading 19-14. Coming off some heat from the first quarter, Parkside went on a 14-0 run to start the second quarter, not letting PNW score until 4:02, making it a 31-16 Parkside advantage. As the game went to halftime, the Rangers held the Pride to only five points while scoring 22.

SECOND HALF

In the third quarter, the teams went back-and-forth as both teams went 4-for-6 from beyond the arc. The Pride scored more points in the third quarter than they did in the first half total, going for 20 points in the third quarter alone. Senior Georgie Eishold had the last basket of the quarter as time expired, making the score 67-39. Senior Lucjia Bilic scored two fast break layups within 20-seconds of each other to close out the game. In the fourth quarter, Parkside saw a lot of scoring off the bench but the Pride were able to outscore the Rangers. However, Parkside still came out on top with a final score of 80-57.

STATWORTHY

Arthur led the Rangers with 16 points followed by redshirt-senior Shelby Cheston with 13 points and a season-high eight rebounds. Arthur and Eishold followed Cheston with six rebounds a piece. Junior Carolina Rahkonen and freshman Alyssa Nelson paced the team with four assists each. Parkside score 29 points off turnovers with the most coming in the second quarter with 14. The Ranger bench combined for 43 points today.

WHAT'S NEXT

The Rangers play at DeSimone this upcoming week, both on Thursday, Jan. 31 and Saturday, Feb. 2.  On Jan. 31, the Rangers will host Northern Michigan at 5:30 p.m. Thursday is Young Professionals Night as the Rangers have partnered with KABA and their organization YLink for this event. Click here for more information. On Saturday, Parkside will host Michigan Tech along with hosting Pink Out Breast Cancer Awareness Day presented by Aurora. The first 400 fans will receive a free pink t-shirt and all Aurora employees will receive free admission to the game. Tip off is at 1 p.m.