Clare Kelly scored five straight points of her own, including Kent State's ninth three of the half, to put the Golden Flashes ahead 36-23 in the final minute of the quarter. Kent State answered back with threes from Katie Shumate and Casey Santoro to go up by 14, 31-17, with 5:43 to go in the half.Ĭhelby Koker (Racine, Wis./Shoreland Lutheran) scored five straight points for NIU to once again put the deficit at eight, 31-23 with 3:10 remaining until halftime. The Huskies closed the gap to eight with 6:52 left in the second quarter when back-to-back A'Jah Davis (DeKalb, Ill./Montverde Academy ) layups made the score 25-17. Clare Kelly and Katie Shumate combined for four threes in the first quarter to help the Golden Flashes build a 22-10 advantage. Kent State (21-9) made 9-of-18 three-point attempts in the first half to take a 38-25 lead. We continued to fight, but Kent State had an answer every time we tried to make a run.' 'I was proud of this group's effort in the second half. 'You have to credit Kent State for shooting the ball well and we knew we needed to do a better job of defending them from behind the arc,' said head coach Lisa Carlsen.

CLEVELAND - The Northern Illinois University women's basketball team did not keep pace with the three-point shooting of the Kent State Golden Flashes on Wednesday afternoon, falling 75-68 in the Mid-American Conference Women's Basketball Championship quarterfinals at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse.

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