MONMOUTH, ILL. (01/31/2023) The Monmouth College women's basketball team fell to Illinois College 51-46 at home on Tuesday night. The Fighting Scots (9-12, 5-7) are now a game behind the Lady Blues in the Midwest Conference standings with four games left to play. Neither team scored for the first four minutes of the game until Tarae Warner (Burlington, Iowa) hit a 3-pointer. Zoie Wall (Bartonville, Illinois) and Lily Harlan (Washington, Illinois) followed with basksters for a 7-0 lead. Audrey Law (Bloomington, Indiana) hit a 3-pointer and IC called timeout down 10. With 2:04 to play in the quarter, IC got their first points and finished the quarter on a 5-0 run. Ella Goodrich (Minonk, Illinois) scored the first points of the second quarter for Monmouth and Warner hit a 3-pointer for a 15-9 lead. IC scored the next five before Harlan got a basket at the rim for a 17-14 lead. IC took their first lead of the game at 18-17 before Warner hit a 3-pointer to put the Scots back on top. Th
MONMOUTH, ILL. (01/17/2023) The Monmouth College women's basketball team led nearly wire to wire in a 63-50 home win over Cornell College on Tuesday. The Fighting Scots (8-9, 4-4) have won three of the last four home games and are tied for fourth in the Midwest Conference after handing the Rams just their second MWC defeat. Cornell got the first basket of the game before Zoie Wall (Bartonville, Illinois) scored in the lane. Lily Harlan (Washington, Illinois) knocked down a baseline jumper and Wall put the Scots up 6-5. Wall got a steal and found Tarae Warner (Burlington, Iowa) for a layup and an 8-5 lead. After a 4-0 Rams run, Allie Hoy (Woodland, Illinois) banked in a jumper and Harlan made a baseline jumper. Ashley Jones (Abingdon, Illinois) hit a floater for a 14-9 Scots lead. Kiersten Cox (Illinois City, Illinois) made it an 8-0 run and Harlan answered a Rams bucket before Cornell scored to cut the lead to 18-14. After both teams turned it over to start the second q