Box Score

NAMPA, Idaho – For the second straight game, Bobbi Knudsen topped her career-high in points and was the driving force behind the Montana State University Billings women's basketball team defeating the Crusaders of Northwest Nazarene University 69-60 in their final regular-season road game of the 2011-12 season Saturday afternoon.
 
With their second road-win in a row, the Yellowjackets improve to 18-8 overall and 10-5 in the league while the Crusaders move to 14-8 overall and 8-6 in Great Northwest Athletic Conference action.
 
“This was another great road-win for us tonight,” stated head coach Kevin Woodin. “Our players really played hard for us tonight and I was proud of how we competed all game long. Bobbi was especially spectacular, particularly in the first half and we really needed her out in three point range. We were able to get six different people to hit at least one shot from outside, so that really helped us tonight to spread out the game.
 
“I felt like we were good when we needed to be on defense, but we did struggle on the boards a bit. We guarded them pretty well though and came away with the win. It was a really great team-effort.”
 
The Yellowjackets shot 46.4% (26-56) from the field that included a 44% (11-25) outing from three-point range.
 
Knudsen reached her 32 points off a 13-19 performance from the field. The Malta High School product had four three-pointers and stole the ball three times.
 
Brooke Tolman was the next highest scorer for MSUB with eight points followed by Kalli Stanhope, Quinn Peoples and Janiel Olson all with six points. Stanhope led the Yellowjacket women with five assists while Olson brought down a team-high 10 rebounds.
 
Northwest Nazarene was able to keep pace with MSUB for the most part with a 40% (26-65) shooting outing from the field, but the Crusaders only hit three of their 17 attempts for a dismal 17.6% shooting performance from beyond the arc.
 
Briaunna King and Megan Hingston each had a double-double with King leading NNU with 16 points along with 10 rebounds. Kingston led all players with 11 rebounds and also added 14 points. The final player for NNU to record double-digit points was Chelsie Luke with 11 points including a team-high three three-pointers.
 
NNU dominated inside game as they out-scored MSUB 30-22 off points inside the paint and 16-6 off second chance looks. Where the Yellowjackets really made a difference was converting turnovers into 25 points.
 
MSUB will return home for their final three regular-season games beginning with a Saturday, Feb. 18 GNAC contest against Seattle Pacific University. The game against the Falcons will serve as the Yellowjackets' annual Pink Zone game and will tip off at 7 p.m.