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Keisha Collins finished with 18 points and seven assists but it was not enough against UIC

Women's Basketball

Loyola Drops Tight 70-66 Decision To UIC

Jan. 30, 2010

Box Score

CHICAGO - Keisha Collins finished with team-highs of 18 points, seven assists and four steals but UIC's Jessie Miller scored 21 of her game-high 29 points in the second half to lead the Flames to a 70-66 win over the Ramblers this afternoon at the Gentile Center. Loyola drops back to the .500 mark (10-10, 4-5 Horizon) while the Flames move to 9-11, 6-3.

Both teams struggled offensively at the outset and Loyola did not get on the board until a Maggie McCloskey three-pointer at the 16:19 mark. The shot gave LU some momentum and the Ramblers rattled off 13 straight points, holding the Flames scoreless for over six minutes, to take a 13-4 lead nearly midway through the half. A Shannon Finnegan three-point play later made it an 18-8 lead but a pair of Taylor Foulks three-pointers highlighted a 10-0 UIC run that evened things at 18 with just over six minutes left. Loyola answered with seven quick points of its own to regain the lead but UIC managed to hang around and the Ramblers had to settle for a 30-29 halftime lead.

Two straight Brittany Boeke buckets early in the second half helped stake the Ramblers to a five-point lead but three straight treys, two from Miller, gave UIC a 46-42 lead at the 11:42 mark. A long Foulks three-pointer boosted the Flames lead to seven but Katie Kortekamp got hot from the arc for the Ramblers and her third trey pulled LU within two (66-64) with 1:32 to play. Loyola got the initial defensive stop it needed but UIC was able to corral an offensive rebound and Shameia Green scored on the ensuing possession to up the lead to four with 49 seconds to go. Kortekamp missed a three that would have made it a one-point game and Green added a pair from the line to, essentially, seal the game.

Collins was joined in double figures by Shannon Finnegan, who scored 11 points off the bench as the LU reserves outscored UIC's bench, 25-3. Kortekamp finished with nine points, seven rebounds and four assists while Elyse VanBogaert and Ellen Ayoub chipped in with seven points apiece, VanBogaert running her career point total to 999 in the process.

Loyola hits the road next week and begins its swing through NW Ohio with a Thursday night game at Youngstown State.

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