Beavers Suffer First Home Loss of Season

The Buena Vista women’s basketball team suffered its first home loss of the season on Wednesday night, as it fell to Simpson College (11-4, 4-2 IIAC), 82-69.

Senior Amanda Roder (Remsen, Iowa/St. Mary’s) led the Beavers with 15 points and seven rebounds, while fellow senior Jessica Christensen (Turin, Iowa/West Monona) finished with 10 points and eight rebounds.  Susan Kies (Fonda, Iowa/Newell-Fonda) and Laura Hilby (Johnston, Iowa/Johnston) also finished with 10 points, as the Beavers shot 36 percent from the field.

The game was back-and-forth in the early going with the Beavers holding a 14-13 lead four minutes in.  Simpson then used a 16-3 spurt to go up 10 with 12 minutes left.  The Storm then bumped the advantage up to 15 at 38-23 with under eight minutes to go and led 44-33 at the half.

BVU quickly pulled back within seven less than two minutes into the second half on a jumper from junior Brooke Wehle (Denison, Iowa/Denison-Schleswig).  Christensen then nailed down a jumper a minute later to get the Beavers as close as six.  Simpson then used an 8-2 run to go back up 12 four minutes later and BVU got no closer than nine from there.

Simpson out-rebounded BVU in the contest, 51-33.  Stacey Schutjer finished with a game-high 19 points and 13 rbounds for the Storm, who were the coaches’ preseason favorites to win the IIAC title.

Buena Vista moves to 8-6 overall (3-2 IIAC) and will now head back on the road this Saturday to play Coe College (11-4, 5-1 IIAC).  Tip-off in Cedar Rapids is scheduled for 4:00pm.

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