Women's Basketball Earns 62-49 Road Win At Tiffin

OVERVIEW – TIFFIN

SCORE: Northwood Timberwolves 62, Tiffin Dragons 49

RECORDS: Northwood (15-7, 11-4 G-MAC), Tiffin (5-15, 3-11 G-MAC)

LOCATION: Gilmour Center – Tiffin, Ohio

RECAP: Northwood women's basketball picks up its fourth straight and seventh win in their last eight games in a 62-49 road win at Tiffin Thursday night (February 15).

GAME STORY

• After the two teams went back and forth early, Northwood took the lead for good at 8-7 with 2:49 remaining in the first quarter.
• The Timberwolves held a 12-9 lead after the opening 10 minutes.
• After a slow offensive quarter in the first, Northwood got going in the second. The Timberwolves scored 10 points in less than four minutes to take a 22-14 lead.
• NU finished the second strong, scoring the final nine points to take a 32-17 lead to halftime.
• The lead stayed above 11 the rest of the game.
• Northwood led 41-27 when the finished the third quarter in dominant fashion, scoring 12 straight points over the final 5:05 to take a 53-27 lead to the fourth.
• The Dragons played their best basketball of the game down the stretch of the game, scoring 14 of the final 19 points to make the final margin 13.

GAME STATS

• FG PERCENTAGE: Tiffin .283 (17-60), Northwood .364 (24-66)
• 3-PT PERCENTAGE: Tiffin .333 (9-27), Northwood .100 (2-20)
• FREE THROW PERCENTAGE: Tiffin .667 (6-9), Northwood .545 (12-22)
• REBOUNDS: Tiffin 43 (Eight offensive), Northwood 49 (13 offensive)
• ASSISTS/TURNOVERS: Tiffin 10/22, Northwood 10/13

TOP NU PERFORMERS

• Ava DiMilia: 24 points (career-high), 11-18 from the floor, six rebounds, three steals
• Maddie Voelker: 12 points, eight rebounds, three steals
• Jayla Strickland: 10 points, five rebounds

UP NEXT

• Northwood will play its final road game of the 2023-24 regular season with a game at Ohio Dominican Saturday (February 17). Game time is set for 1 p.m.