Kym Wenz of the Wooster womens basketball team was named to the D3hoops.com All-Great Lakes Region Second Team, the popular Web site announced late Tuesday.
The Wooster womens basketball team saw two of its players recognized by the North Coast Athletic Conference when the conference released the 2008-09 All-NCAC squads, as voted on by the leagues nine coaches. The Fighting Scots selections were headlined by a first-team selection in junior guard Kym Wenz, while classmate post player Kaitlin Krister found a spot on the second team.
The Wooster womens basketball season came to an end when it faced off against third-seeded Allegheny College in the North Coast Athletic Conference Tournament quarterfinals. The Fighting Scots dreams were shattered when the host Gators handed them a 62-45 setback.
Junior Kym Wenz became just the seventh player in the Wooster womens basketball programs 45-year history to score 1,000 points when she knocked down a three-pointer with 8:32 left in the first half, but Earlham College spoiled the Scots home regular-season finale Saturday afternoon with a 63-55 victory.
Clinging to a two-point halftime lead at 21-19, Allegheny raced out of the halftime break scoring 20 of the first 29 points to open the second half, holding off a late Wooster comeback attempt for a 61-53 victory.
Aided by 48.1 percent field goal shooting in the opening stanza, including 75 percent from three-point range, Wooster posted a mark in the win column, having to hold off a late Hiram College comeback bid, as the visitors came out on top by a 67-55 count.
Plagued by a cold first-half shooting performance from the floor, Wooster watched as home-standing Kenyon surged out to a quick 6-0 lead during a rugged opening stanza for the Fighting Scots, propelling the Ladies to a 72-59 North Coast Athletic Conference victory.
Oberlin scored the final eight points, turning a 62-60 deficit with 1:33 left into a 68-62 victory over the host College of Wooster during womens basketball action in North Coast Athletic Conference action.
Ohio Wesleyan held Wooster scoreless for nearly seven minutes in the early portion of the first half, building a 35-8 lead thanks to a 24-0 run during that stretch, and cruised to an 84-67 victory in North Coast Athletic Conference play.
Behind its best shooting performance of the season, coupled with a stingy defensive effort, Wooster managed a come-from-behind North Coast Athletic Conference victory Saturday over Wittenberg 75-67.
Wooster cut an Allegheny five-point halftime advantage (29-24) to two (31-29) with 17:20 left in regulation, but the Gators responded with runs of 15-2 and 14-5 en route to the 66-45 North Coast Athletic Conference victory.
TheWooster womens basketball team rebounded from a four-point deficit just under eight minutes into the contest, taking command thanks to an 11-0 run and never looked back en route to a 66-50 victory over home-standing Earlham College.
The Wooster womens basketball team ended a two-game losing streak, erasing a three-point halftime deficit in the opening minutes of the second half, and holding off a late run by Hiram College in a 70-61 victory.
In the second meeting between North Coast Athletic Conferences foes Denison and the College of Wooster in the last 12 days, the Big Red utilized a big first half scoring output and cruised to 77-45 victory over the visiting Fighting Scots.
Wooster mounted a late comeback attempt against home-standing Ursuline College, but the host Arrows handed the Scots a 66-63 loss in non-conference womens basketball action.
Wooster ended a four-game losing streak by defeating Kenyon 56-48. The Scots reach .500 on the season in North Coast Athletic Conference play at 2-2, and improve to 4-7 overall.
The Wooster womens basketball team scored the first basket of the game at host Ohio Wesleyan, but the Battling Bishops rattled off a 6-0 run on their way to a 66-52 win.
Invading Denison used a sharp shooting performance from three-point range, connecting on 8-of-18 attempts from beyond the arc (.444), and rattled off runs of 9-2 and 8-2 midway through the second half to propel themselves over Wooster 81-66.
The Wooster womens basketball team mounted a furious comeback against Westminster, cutting a 16-point deficit (60-44) with 5:28 on the clock down to just two (62-60) with 15 seconds remaining, but the Fighting Scots luck ran out, as Meredith Wilsons three-point attempt was blocked and came up short in the final seconds to give the host Titans a 62-60 win.
Holding a slim 31-30 advantage at the halftime intermission, Worcester State College took control in the second half of play, blistering the nets at just over 58 percent (18-of-31) and pulled away from the College of Wooster en route to an 82-63 victory.
Wooster methodically broke down the Pine Manor defense, played smothering defense of its own, and dominated the rebounding margin, as the visiting Fighting Scots evened their record at 3-3 by rolling to a 74-30 non-conference victory.
The Wooster womens basketball team surged out to an 13-point lead at 55-42 with 15:35 left in regulation, only to watch visiting Case Western Reserve come storming back to take control with a hot-shooting second half and cruise to the 89-73 victory.
Behind a career-high 33-point performance from junior guard Kym Wenz, the Wooster womens basketball team opened up its North Coast Athletic Conference campaign Wednesday night with a 74-57 victory over Oberlin. The 33 points by Wenz is tied for the fourth-most in a single game in program history.
Junior Kaitlin Krister netted 14 of her game- and career-high 26 points in the second half to fuel a comeback by the Wooster women's basketball team against non-conference foe Bluffton University, but the visiting Beavers managed to survive the surge and escaped Timken Gymnasium with a 73-70 victory.
Behind the all-around play of senior forward Kelley Meiklejohn, Manchester College (2-0) concluded the 13th edition of the Nan Nichols Classic with a narrow 64-60 victory over The College of Wooster (1-1) in the championship game.
TheWooster womens basketball team utilized a 15-6 run covering 3:54 of action in the second half en route to beating Pitt-Bradford 77-71 during first-round action in the 13th annual Nan Nichols Classic.