Peru State College Athletics

(Peru, Neb.)- The Peru State College women's basketball team utilized a strong 4^th quarter performance to best Waldorf 68-59 on Saturday night in the Al Wheeler Activity Center.
 
The win takes the Bobcats to 2-0 on the season while the Warriors would fall to 0-2 overall.
 
Waldorf opened the game through a 10-4 series in the first quarter before Peru State answered with a 7-2 run to slice the lead to one (12-11), the Warriors would answer through a 6-1 push and extend the lead to eight (24-16) to finish the first quarter. An 11-7 Waldorf run would stretch the lead to 12 (35-23) before the Bobcats would bounce back through a 13-4 run which lasted over five minutes and saw eight points from MaKinley Tobey (Broken Bow, Nebraska / Broken Bow High School) to slice the advantage to three going into the half.
 
Peru State would open the second half with a 7-2 run to knot the game at 43 with 5:56 remaining in the third until the Warriors would respond with a 6-2 push to take back a four-point lead (49-45), the Bobcats would score three of the final four points in the quarter to cut the advantage to two (50-48). A good jumper by Erison Vonderschmidt (Falls City, Nebraska / Fall City Sacred Heart High School) would tie the game back up at 50 then a 6-2 swing with four points from Tobey would give Peru State their first lead of the game (56-52). Waldorf would find the following jumper to shorten the edge to two (56-54) until Vonderschmidt scored five points in a 10-0 run to pull the advantage to 12 with 1:15 remaining (66-54). Waldorf would find five points to shorten the lead to seven (66-59), but after a Warrior foul, Vonderschmidt would sink two free-throws in the final 20 seconds to put the dagger into the game 68-59.
 
Vonderschmidt would make six field goals while going a perfect 11-11 from the line to total 23 points while grabbing 13 rebounds for her first double-double of the season while Maile Hrabe (Smith Center, Kansas / Smith Center High School) would go 7-11 from the field while sinking two three-pointers and three free-throws to total 19 points, Tobey would go 7-18 while draining two threes of her own and one shot from the line to mark 17 points. Dakota Haner (Beatrice, Nebraska / Freeman High School) would pace the Bobcats with five assists while also grabbing four rebounds.
 
Peru State would beat Waldorf on the glass 43-32 while forcing the Warriors into foul trouble with 25 on the night.
 
The Bobcats return to action on Thursday, October 29^th where they travel to Lindsborg Kansas to take on non-conference Bethany College at 5:00 PM.