Claire Leroux pictured, led MU to regular season finale win over UM-Dearborn
55
Michigan-Dearborn UMD 17-13, 10-10
56
Winner Madonna MU 6-22, 4-16
Michigan-Dearborn UMD
17-13, 10-10
55
Final
56
Madonna MU
6-22, 4-16
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 F
Michigan-Dearborn UMD 18 10 10 17 55
Madonna MU 10 18 14 14 56

Game Recap: Women's Basketball | | Zachary Shore

Brown, @MUCrusadersWBB cap season on high note

THE BASICS
Score: Madonna University 56, University of Michigan-Dearborn 55
Records: Madonna (6-22, 4-16 WHAC), UM-Dearborn (17-13, 10-10 WHAC)
Location: MU Activities Center - Livonia, Mich.
Turning Point: Sydney Brown 3-pointer with 45 seconds to play
 

LIVONIA, Mich. - Hollywood couldn't have written a better script for senior Sydney Brown and the Madonna University women's basketball team as Brown hit the biggest shot of her career, a 3-pointer with 45 seconds left, to put MU up by three, a lead they never let go in the 56-55 win to end the 2020 campaign. 

It was a tightly contested game that featured 11 ties and 14 lead changes. A 9-2 run to end the first quarter gave the visitors an 18-10 lead, but the Crusaders opened the second on an 8-0 run, highlighted by back-to-back 3-pointers from Claire Leroux, to even the score. Paige Boden and Brown combined to score six straight points to extend the lead, but UM-Dearborn used another 8-2 run to close the half tied at 28.

A pair of Kennedy Carrier free throws and four straight points from Victoria Guardiola to end the third quarter gave MU some momentum and a 42-38 lead with 10 minutes to play. In the final quarter, the teams traded the lead four times and tied three times, that is until the 45-second mark when Brown broke a tie at 50 with a huge shot from beyond the 3-point arc and MU never trailed again in the win. 

INSIDE THE NUMBERS
  • Leroux finished with team-best 12 points on 4-of-9 shooting while Guardiola added 10 points
  • Megan Aho finished one point shy of a double-double with nine points and 11 rebounds to go with five steals and four assists while Emily Pendred also grabbed 10 rebounds
  • MU tallied 50 rebounds in the win to UMD's 49 and hot 32.4 percent (23-of-71) from the field while the defense held the Wolverines to 27.6 percent (16-of-58)
  • Madonna scored 18 points off 15 UM-Dearborn turnovers, outscored the visitors 30-18in the paint and has more bench points (20-11). 
CRUSADER VISION



MILESTONE WATCH
  • Boden finishes the season with a program single-season record 69 blocks, besting Becca Sabol's mark of 57 during the 2015-16 season
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