Feb. 26, 2009
Box Score
KENOSHA, Wis. - The Flyers rallied from an 11-point second half deficit to twice take the lead, but down the stretch the UW-Parkside Rangers pulled out a 57-56 Great Lakes Valley Conference decision on Thursday evening at the DeSimone Gymnasium.
Elements were there for a Flyers' road conference victory. Lewis limited the Rangers to fewer than 60 points and their big scorer Amanda Gibson had just four. Sophomore Jenny Turpel (Johnsburg, Ill./Johnsburg) scored a game-high 23 points with seven boards and four blocks. But a cold start, failing to score in the game's first five minutes, and being out rebounded 40-27 would do in the Flyers.
UW-Parkside controlled the first half. The Rangers scored the first eight points of the game and led by 13 at 23-10 with 3:22 till halftime. When the break came around the Flyers trailed 27-18.
However the Flyers refused to quit. Lewis advanced with two at 37-35 when sophomore Kelly Monaco (Chicago, Ill./Resurrection) drained a trey. A 3-pointer by sophomore Kady Currin (Cincinnati, Ohio/Seton) gave the Flyers their first lead at 43-42 with 9:17 remaining.
It looked like the Rangers were pulling away at the 3:18 mark when they scored seven straight points to lead 55-48. But the Flyers had one more rally left. A Turpel 3-point play made it 55-51 with under 2:30 to play. She added a layup to make it 57-53 and then earned two free throws with 52 seconds remaining.
She hit the first to advance the Flyers within three, but her second free throw rattled out. Teammate Devon Carbaugh (Sterling, Ill./Sterling) was there to put back the miss and make it a one point game at 57-56 with 50 seconds left.
Following the Flyers' third and fourth team fouls of the half; the Rangers' Gibson dribbled the ball off her leg out of bounds to give it back to Lewis with 18 seconds left.
The ball went into Turpel but her jumper missed and UW-Parkside grabbed the board with three second left. Senior Jenna Mooberry (Byron, Ill./Byron) fouled immediately but with it being only the Flyers' fifth team foul, the Rangers were able to run out the clock following the ensuing inbounds pass.
Turpel's 23 points is her 11th 20+ point game of the season.
"If teams aren't going to double her she is capable of putting up those types of numbers every game" head coach Lisa Carlsen said. "We told Jenny to get the ball and go to work, and she relishes that challenge."
Carbaugh finished with 17 points on 7-of-11 shooting with seven boards, four offensive. Currin hit three treys to score nine points after early foul trouble. The Flyers committed only nine turnovers to the Rangers' 15.
"A loss is never good, but I don't feel like we lost much momentum in terms of the way we want to play going down the stretch of the season," Carlsen said.
The loss locks the Flyers into the No. 3 seed in the GLVC East and a match up against Drury in the first round of the GLVC Tournament.
The Rangers improve to 18-8 (14-3 GLVC). Lewis falls to 15-11 (11-6 GLVC). The Flyers finish the regular season on Saturday at noon against Northern Kentucky.
