STEVENS POINT, Wis. – In front of a record-setting crowd of 1,967 in Quandt Fieldhouse, including over 1,600 students from the Stevens Point Area School District, the UW-Stevens Point women's basketball team (9-0) got a 61-48 win over visiting Concordia (Wis.) on Thursday.
 
Senior Maija Rice (L'Anse, Mich./L'Anse Area) posted her first double-double of the year with a game-high 19 points and a career-high tying 12 rebounds. Laney Panich (Wautoma, Wis./Wautoma) and Jessilyn Ernst (Pardeeville, Wis./Pardeeville) added eight points each.
 
Ernst scored the first four points and Karissa Smith (Freedom, Wis./Appleton North) buried a three in front of the frenzied crowd for a 7-0 lead. Lily Truchon (Herbster, Wis./South Shore) and Rachel Hagen (Duluth, Minn./Duluth East) combined for five points, but the Falcons rallied to take a 16-14 lead after one.
 
Rice scored her first points of the game, the first five for UWSP in the second quarter, as UWSP got within 23-19. Brenna Gehri (Oshkosh, Wis./West) and Hagen each had a bucket and UWSP trailed by a 28-25 score at the half.
 
Rice and Panich had four points each as the Pointers tied the game at 33-33 early in the third. Ernst hit a pair of free throws and Rice scored five straight points. Hagen and Truchon each had a late bucket as UWSP used an 11-0 run over the final 5:38 of the third to take a 44-38 lead.
 
Panich scored the first bucket of the fourth to extend the run to 13-0. Rice scored five in the quarter and Brooke Bottcher (Belvidere, Ill./Belvidere North) banked in a three at the buzzer to send the crowd home with a UWSP win.
 
The attendance of 1,967 is the most for a UWSP women's basketball game in recorded history. It is also the largest crowd for a DIII women's basketball game this season.
 
The Pointers travel to Daytona Beach, Fla., for the Sunshine Shootout with a 2:00 p.m. ET tip off against Haverford.