FORT WAYNE, Ind. – The Purdue Fort Wayne women’s basketball team dropped a Horizon League contest on Wednesday night (Feb. 19) to Oakland 71-64 in the Gates Sports Center.<\/p>\n
It was a slow start that put the Mastodons behind the proverbial 8-ball. Oakland went up 9-0 in the opening three minutes of action. The Mastodons clawed\u00a0back to take a 36-34 lead after Hillary Offing<\/a> had a 4-0 run on her own. Offing finished with 14 points on 5-of-7 shooting and a perfect 4-for-4 from the charity stripe in 13 minutes of action off the bench.<\/p>\n Oakland’s rebounding wore on the Mastodons in the second half, out-shining the ‘Dons on the boards 27-19 after the halftime break. Despite that, the Mastodons obliterated Oakland in the paint with a 42-28 edge when the final buzzer sounded.<\/p>\n The Mastodons had a season-low seven turnovers, including just two in the second half, but struggled to convert on their chances, going 3-for-22 (13.6 percent) from beyond the arc. Purdue Fort Wayne was, however, perfect from the free throw line at 9-for-9.<\/p>\n Four ‘Dons finished in double-figures: Lili Krasovec<\/a> (14), Hillary Offing<\/a> (14), Lauren Lee<\/a> (13) and Jordan Reid<\/a> (10). Oakland was led by 17 points from Makenzie Luehring, who also added nine assists and nine rebounds.<\/p>\n Purdue Fort Wayne fell to 16-11, 10-7 in Horizon League play while Oakland improved to 9-18, 6-11. The Mastodons will take the Gates Sports Center again on Saturday (Feb. 21) for their annual Pink Out game, this year against Youngstown State. ~ Feel the Rumble ~<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT WAYNE, Ind. – The Purdue Fort Wayne women’s basketball team dropped a Horizon League contest on Wednesday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":{"0":"post-183964","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-oakland","9":"tag-oakland-headlines","10":"tag-oakland-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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