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Monday, February 22, 2016
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Losses piling up for basketball Joren Apiquian Staff writer
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DeKalb | Women’s basketball (10-
15, 3-11 MAC) took another road loss Saturday, falling to conference rival Eastern Michigan University (17-8, 8-6 MAC) 84-60. The Huskies’ hopes at finishing the regular season at .500 are now gone as there are only four games remaining. The best the team can finish is 14-15, but it would need to win out the rest of its games. Failure to shoot well from the field has been a theme for NIU this season, and it’s resulted in a lot of bad losses for the team. The Huskies shot 37.5 percent from the field and allowed nearly 90 points. The Eagles led 25-9 after just one quarter, dominating from the opening tip. Freshman guard/forward Courtney Woods set a new career-high with 21 points, shooting 7-10 from the field. Woods also shot 5-8 from beyond the arc and picked up six assists. Junior forward Cassidy Glenn notched a double-double for the Huskies, scoring 12 points and grabbing 11 rebounds. Junior guard Ally Lehman pitched in a good game as well, dropping 13 points and 12 rebounds. Lehman broke a Huskie record with 18 games of at least 10 rebounds in one season. “We didn’t handle the press very well at all,” said head coach Lisa Carlsen, according to an NIU Athletics news release. “We talked all week that any time we run into that kind of
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Junior guard Ally Lehman drives to the lane in a Feb. 13 game against Central Michigan University. Lehman scored 13 points and grabbed 12 rebounds Saturday against Eastern Michigan University, but the Huskies lost in a 84-60 blowout.
pressure that we couldn’t attack with got their hands on a lot of balls that soft passes and that’s where I think we created offense for them.” got into trouble. I don’t think we were NIU will look to get a win colaggressive enough. Eastern Michigan umn this week as it faces Western
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DeKalb | Senior guard Travon Baker became NIU’s all-time leader in games played after playing in Tuesday’s win over Bowling Green State University. It was Baker’s 118th consecutive game played in an NIU uniform. He has started all 26 games this season. Baker also dished five assists to move into third on NIU’s all-time assists list, recording the 333rd assist of his career. Baker has increased his production in each of his four seasons as a Huskie. Through 26 Travon Baker Senior guard games, he has shot a career-high in three point percentage (38 percent), field goal percentage (38 percent) and free throw percentage (74 percent). The guard has made his defensive presence known this season — he’s sixth in the MAC in steals, averaging 1.4 a game. He’s also fourth in assists in the conference, averaging four a game. Head coach Mark Montgomery previously said that Baker has done a great job of making shots and plays throughout his career. Baker is a clutch player and when the team needs him to step up and make a play, he does. He has led the team in scoring six times this season and has scored a careerhigh 25 points twice on the year.
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