FOND DU LAC - Marian University women's basketball (1-3, 0-0 NACC) earned its first win of the season defeating Lake Forest 76-70.
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- Marian had a fast start scoring the first eight points of the game and leading 11-2 with 6:12 left in the first quarter.
- The Foresters responded going on a 20-5 run to lead 22-16, but a jumper at the buzzer from senior Lexi Brakebush put the score at 22-18 at the end of the first quarter.
- The two squads went back-and-forth with the Foresters eventually leading 37-31 with 2:27 on the clock.
- Marian was able to build momentum headed into halftime scoring the final four points of the half to only trail 37-35.
- The opening minutes of the second half saw the two teams battle to a 40-40 stalemate.
- The Sabres then pulled away with an 18-3 spurt to end the third quarter and lead 58-43 going into the final 10 minutes.
- LFC was strong defensively to open the fourth quarter and were able to chip away at their deficit and only trailed by three with a 14-2 run to open the final quarter.
- Marian was able to hold off the momentum and got hot from beyond the arc hitting four triples to lead 74-66 with 1:19 remaining.
- From there, both offenses went cold with Marian managing to hold on for a 76-70 win.
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- Marian shot 28-of-72 (.389) in the game and 8-of-30 (.267) from beyond the arc.
- Lake Forest finished 27-of-71 (.380) from the field and 9-of-31 (.290) on three-point attempts.
- Marian had at least 17 points in all four quarters and outscored the Foresters 23-6 in the third stanza.
- The Sabres were able to take advantage of eight offensive boards outscoring LFC 12-3 in second-chance points.
- Marian improves to 2-1 all-time against LFC with this being the first meeting between the two programs in Sadoff Gym.
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