It's taken a while for St. Scholastica's women's basketball team to get rolling this year but they are getting hot at the right time.

 

With four games remaining in the regular season and the fifth place Saints on the outside looking in for one of the four spots in the Upper Midwest Athletic Conference postseason tournament, tonight's 67-37 win over visiting conference foe Crown College runs St. Scholastica's win streak to four, evens their conference record at 5-5, and keeps alive their hopes of a late season push to move into the top four in the league standings and play in the 2008 UMAC tournament.

 

St. Scholastica (9-11 overall) raced out to a 32-18 halftime lead over the Purple Storm (4-14, 0-10 UMAC), then closed the deal in the second half out scoring their opponents by 16 to increase the lead to it's final 30 point margin.

 

Saints senior Ashley Lubbers (Little Falls, Minn./Little Falls Community HS) led all scorers with a career-high 16 points. She pulled down six rebounds, five on the defensive end, and added three assists to her career night.

 

Head coach Stacy Deadrick used the big lead to insert a number of Saints reserves into the game.

 

Sophomore guard Jennifer Golobich (Virginia, Minn./Mt. Iron-Buhl HS) logged a career-high 24 minutes of court action, scored six points, registered four rebounds, one assist, one block, and one steal on the night.

 

Also seeing quite a bit of action was freshman Katie Kimm (Mora, Minn./Mora HS) who scored eight points with four rebounds, an assist and a steal in 23 minutes, a career high.

 

The Saints shot better than 47 percent from the field while limiting the over-matched Storm to just 25 percent. They also out rebounded the visitors 43 to 30 and forced 16 Crown turnovers resulting in 18 St. Scholastica points.

 

The road to the UMAC tournament gets immediately harder for the Saints as third place Northwestern College (8-12, 6-3 UMAC) comes to The Burns on Saturday for a 3 p.m. tip-off against the Saints who will try to stretch their win streak to five.

 

**SAINTS**