February 22, 1999

MILWAUKEE - The UWM women's basketball team saw 2,629 fans crowd into the Klotsche Center on Feb. 20 for the UWM-UWGB game, but the result was the same as last month in Green Bay. The league-leading Phoenix dropped UWM, 73-54.

Earlier in the week, Marquette cruised to a 74-48 win at the Wisconsin Center Arena.

UWM now prepares for the final week of the regular season by playing host to Loyola on Feb. 25 and UIC on Feb. 27.

UWM (9-13, 5-7 MCC) currently sits in fifth place in league standings. Cleveland State (12-12, 6-6 MCC) is a game ahead of the Panthers with two games left to play. The Vikings would have to lose both games, while UWM win its two games because CSU would win the head-to-head tie-breaker.

Against UWGB, Daryl Schaffeld (Palatine, Ill.-Fremd) scored a season-best 23 points and moved into a tie for seventh on the MCC career three-pointer chart with 152, but it wasn't enough. No other Panther reached double figures in points.

UWGB was led by Chari Nordgaard's 24 points and Stacy Krueger's 20 points.

On Wed., Feb. 17 against Marquette, Corrin Von Wald scored a game-best 16 points and collected 6 steals, but the Panthers shot only .333 from the field, while the Golden Eagles hit .474 of their shots, including 10 of 18 from behind the arc. Janelle Jonason (Brooklyn Park, Minn.-Park Center) recorded a career-high three blocks in the game.