1 day Ago By Staff reports
Kloey Lind’s lay-up with seven seconds left helped St. Scholastica squeeze out a 51-50 win over Macalester in their first Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference women’s basketball game of 2025 on Saturday at Reif Gym in Duluth. CSS led by as many as eight in the third quarter and five with 1:36 left but found itself trailing after a Katherine Norquist layup gave the Scots a one-point lead with 13 seconds remaining.
ADVERTISEMENT Lind subbed in at the ensuing timeout and made the shot, and the Saints survived a late 3-point attempt. Lind had a team-high 18 points and nine rebounds for CSS, while Jackie Johnson added 11. CSS fended off 24 turnovers, in addition to 25 points from Macalester’s Peyton Starks.
CSS (6-5, 3-1 MIAC) will host St. Olaf on Wednesday. MEN’S BASKETBALL Saints can’t shake slow stretch Finishing the first half on a 13-2 run proved to be key as Macalester stopped St.
Scholastica 75-69 in MIAC play on Saturday in Duluth. The Saints battled back to make it 28-26 Scots with 5:16 left in the period but got badly outscored the rest of the half. They found themselves down 41-28 at halftime and the deficit moved from six to 15 points throughout the second half.
Moe Washington led CSS (5-8, 1-3 MIAC) with 18 points. ADVERTISEMENT The Saints finished 2024 with a split at the Radisson Holiday Classic, getting routed 80-57 in the opener by host Wisconsin-River Falls on Dec. 30 before knocking off Wisconsin-Stout 79-69 on day two, Dec.
31. WOMEN’S HOCKEY Saints split in Fond du Lac St. Scholastica scored four times in the second period to get their second win of the season and finish third in the Fondy Pot Invitational on Friday and Saturday in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.
CSS defeated host Marian 5-1 on Saturday after losing 3-1 on Saturday to Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Hannah Martin’s shorthanded goal made it 2-0 Saints at 5:58 of the second period, her first of two in the frame on Saturday. Gabby Gamst and Grace Chapman also scored as CSS had all the goals it needed by the second intermission.
Makenzie Cole made 20 saves over the first 40 minutes before handing off to Anita Origlio, who made 11 stops in the third. Martin had CSS’s only goal on Saturday, and it gave them a lead early in the second period before the Pointers scored three times unanswered in the last 11:36 before intermission. Kieley Curow made 25 saves for CSS.
ADVERTISEMENT The Saints (2-11) are off until returning to MIAC play on Jan. 17-18 at Concordia-Moorhead. MEN’S HOCKEY Saints see off Lumberjacks St.
Scholastica offered no quarter to a winless Northland men’s hockey team on Friday night, routing the Lumberjacks 8-0 in Ashland, Wisconsin. Wyatt Wurst and Evan Pahos had two goals apiece, with Pahos adding two assists and Wurst one. They joined Isaac Suppin (three assists) in having three-point games.
Brenden Stroble made 20 saves for the Saints (8-4-1), who’ll play a pair of Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference schools this weekend starting Friday at Wisconsin-Stevens Point..
