MARION, Ind. -- No. 17 Indiana Wesleyan University women’s basketball and No. 5 Marian (Ind.) battled on Wednesday night in Luckey Arena. Marian pulled off the 61-56 victory with the key moment being a 15-1 run by the Knights that started in the third quarter and extended into the fourth quarter. That stretch turned a six point Wildcat lead into an eight point deficit.

GAME VITALS

• Score:  Indiana Wesleyan - 56   |   Marian - 61
• Records:  Indiana Wesleyan 16-9, 9-4 Crossroads League   |   Marian 22-3, 12-1 Crossroads League
• NAIA Top- 25 Rank:  Indiana Wesleyan - No. 17   |   Marian - No. 5
• Location:   Luckey Arena   |   Indiana Wesleyan University   |   Marion, Indiana 
   

STAT TRACKER

• Kelsey Key:  12 points, 4 rebounds
• Anna Imhoff:  6 points, 6 rebounds
• Brittany Washington:  22 points, 10-14 FG, 4 rebounds, 3 assists
• Carly Lange:  5 points, 6 rebounds

INSIDE THE BOXSCORE

• Indiana Wesleyan held a 37-31 lead on a Carly Lange 3-pointer with 4:44 remaining in the third quarter. Marian closed out the quarter on a 7-1 run to tie the score at 38.
• The Knights opened the final stanza with the first eight points to extend their run to 15-1. MU led 46-38 and did not surrender the lead.
• Marian scored 23 points in the fourth quarter after not scoring more than 13 in any of the first three quarters.
• The 22 points for Brittany Washington is the second highest in a game during her career. She scored a career-best 25 in the four OT win vs. Huntington (Ind.) when she played all 60 minutes.
  
   

COACH FORAKER SAYS…

• “It was a hard fought game. We went into the game with a definite plan and at halftime it was working beautifully. It got away from us a little bit in the second half which forced us into some stuff in the last five minutes that wasn’t the best thing for us. There was that one stretch where they just outplayed us, out hustled us, out rebounded us. They are a good, well coached team and should be ranked No. 5.”
   

NEXT TIME OUT

• Indiana Wesleyan plays the second half of a men’s-women’s doubleheader at Huntington (Ind.) on Saturday. The men’s game starts at 1 p.m. and the women’s game will follow at approximately 3 p.m. in Platt Arena.