{"id":812,"date":"2019-03-10T17:04:24","date_gmt":"2019-03-10T22:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kentuckysports.net\/?p=812"},"modified":"2020-11-03T09:01:28","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T14:01:28","slug":"wartburg-women-fall-at-st-thomas-season-ends-in-elite-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kentuckysports.net\/?p=812","title":{"rendered":"Wartburg women fall at St. Thomas; season ends in Elite 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"13c398acb195b4bd84e993cb56669758\" data-index=\"6\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Above Post Ad 2 -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:638px;height:70px\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4024319323781499\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"8631827568\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Cedar Rapids, Iowa &#8212;\u00a0<\/strong>A huge second quarter by the home team ended up propelling St. Thomas to an 85-56 victory over Wartburg tonight in St. Paul, Minn. The Tommies, who barely survived a Sweet 16 showdown against Amherst last night, left no doubt thanks in part to a 24-13 second quarter that extended a five-point lead to 16 by halftime. Wartburg, ranked No. 11 nationally, ended its season at 27-4 overall. UST moves on to the Final Four next weekend ranked No. 2 and sporting an overall record of 29-1. The only blemish was a regular-season loss to Wartburg back on December 30.<\/p>\n<p>Trailing 19-14 at the end of 10 minutes, the second-quarter onslauight began in the first two minutes. A layup and consecutive 3-pointers stretched the lead to 13 seemingly in the blink of an eye.\u00a0<strong>Amanda Brainerd<\/strong>\u00a0made two free throws to halt the run, but UST then hit two more threes to go up 17. The teams traded points for the rest of the half.<\/p>\n<p>It was clear Wartburg needed a major third-quarter push to get back in the game. It went the other way. The Tommies scored the first five points of the quarter, starting a 14-4 streak that was the beginning of the end for the Knights. The 24-14 third quarter had UST up by 26 as the fourth quarter began. The Tommies continued to pull away to the 29-point final margin.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Adrienne Boettger<\/strong>\u00a0paced Wartburg with 12 points, while Brainerd and <b>Payton Draper<\/b>\u00a0added 10 each. Lucia Renikoff led UST with 22 points. The Tommies were deadly from 3-point range, making 16-of-30 from behind the line. That performance led to an overall FG percentage of nearly 60% (31-of-52). Wartburg was 59-of-70 from the foul line in the first three games of the NCAA tournament and kept going tonight by hitting 19-of-23. The field-goal shooting of 17-of-45 (38%) was significantly below the 49% aggregate in the NCAAs. A 40% team from 3-point range that averaged almost 10 made in the three previous NCAA games, Wartburg was just 3-of-8 tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Another deep run by its champion and a second NCAA bid for the second time in the last four years made 2018-19 a very successful one for the American Rivers Conference. Twenty-one players who made the all-conference team (1st, 2nd, HM) return for the 2019-20 season.<\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cedar Rapids, Iowa &#8212;\u00a0A huge second quarter by the home team ended up propelling St. Thomas to an 85-56 victory over Wartburg tonight in St. Paul,<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,23,12],"tags":[246,88,247,245],"class_list":["post-812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-division-iii","category-top-news","category-womens-basketball","tag-adrienne-boettger","tag-basketball","tag-payton-draper","tag-wartburg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kentuckysports.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kentuckysports.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kentuckysports.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kentuckysports.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kentuckysports.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=812"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kentuckysports.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":816,"href":"https:\/\/kentuckysports.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions\/816"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kentuckysports.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kentuckysports.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kentuckysports.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kentuckysports.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}