No. 25 Lady Quakers rout Muskingum

Team gives Scheve win No. 300

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January 25, 2006

Katie Streck and Gina Hyle scored 14 points each as 25th-ranked Wilmington College breezed past Muskingum, 81-56, in Ohio Athletic Conference play Wednesday at Fred Raizk Arena. The Lady Quakers are now 8-3 in the OAC, 13-5 overall. Muskingum drops to 0-11 in the conference, 2-16 overall. The win was No. 300 for head coach Jerry Scheve at Wilmington. For more on Scheve's 300 wins at WC, click here.

"In the first half, there were points where I thought we played with some energy and pushed the ball up the floor, and there were other times where I thought we were not playing with energy. I wasn't real happy with our first-half play," Scheve said.

The Lady Quakers never trailed, but didn't put space between themselves and the Muskies until WC surged late in the first half. Hyle (Lawrenceburg, Ind./McAuley) scored 10 first-half points and triggered a 14-2 run in the final 5:41 that gave Wilmington a 43-27 lead at the half.

Any thoughts the Muskies had of getting back into the game were squashed early in the second half when Wilmington's inside power game of Kelly Peters (Spencerville) and Streck (Dayton/Carroll) was complemented by the three-point shooting of Jackie Hauke (Sardinia/Whiteoak). When Hauke hit her second trey of the half at 14:40, the Lady Quakers were up 59-31.

"In the second half we came out and they did exactly what we asked them to do right from the beginning," Scheve said. "Our first team and our second team both went out there and played some very good basketball the second half to put the game away."

As Scheve went deep to his bench, the lead continued to grow. Amberly Conklin (Napoleon) scored at 10:22 to give WC a 73-35 advantage. In all, 16 Lady Quakers saw action, 13 made their way into the scoring column.

Scheve downplayed Muskingum's winless conference record and how that could have affected his team's early play against the Muskies.

"I think we've always been pretty good about getting ready for every opponent," Scheve said. "They're in the OAC. They went to Ohio Northern a week ago and took them down to the wire. They've got shooters. They really shoot the ball. We respect anybody we play."

Peters scored 11 for WC, Hauke added 10, Abby Newhouse (Florence, Ky./Boone County) scored eight and Amy Starks (Greenville) scored seven. Mindy Workman led Muskingum with 10 points.

Wilmington out-rebounded Muskingum 53-36. Streck led the Lady Quakers with eight boards, Newhouse pulled down six.

Wilmington is at Mount Union 3 p.m. Saturday.