Park University's women's basketball program were in Canton, Mo. on Monday evening to makeup a previously postponed contest with Culver-Stockton College. The Wildcats could do no wrong in their own house and defeated the Pirates, 78-50.

Park's loss breaks a three-game win streak and go to No. 8 in the Heart of America Athletic Conference directly behind the 7-9 Wildcats, while the Pirates are 7-10 in conference play. Park has the greater season record than the Wildcats though at 10-11 compared to 8-12.

The game started with a 6-0 run for Culver-Stockton. The Pirates were able to get on the board with Taylor Shelby and Nevaeh Spillman's jumpshots, but still were down 10-4 at the 6:08 mark. The lead continued to build for the Wildcats with a 6-2 run, reaching the 3:20 mark with a score of 16-6. That's were the deficit stayed as Kate Sokolova kept it within 10 to end the quarter, 21-11.

The second quarter started off with a Marina Perdiguero layup off of Angel Wiggins' steal, but a three-pointer sounded off for Culver-Stockton immediately following. Neither team scored again for 1:43, but an and-one by Culver-Stockton gave them a boost. Only seven points were registered by the Pirates in the second quarter, as Culver-Stockton extended their lead to 20 by the end of the half, 38-18.

Avery Oetting made back-to-back three-pointers to begin the third quarter to erase the progress made on Shelby's jumper in between the Wildcat threes. Another five unanswered points came in by Culver-Stockton, including another three to lead by 29 at the 7:27 mark in the third quarter. With 3:18 to go in the third quarter, the Wildcats led by as much as 32.
There was little the Pirates could do from this point, as Culver-Stockton had a constant hold on the flow of the game for a 78-50 win.

The Wildcats shot over 50-percent in this game at 51.9-percent, no easy feat. Park settled for a 28.8-percent field-goal percentage.

It was a two-of-13 night from deep for the Pirates, while the Wildcats were an unbelievable seven-of-11 from three.

Both teams shot a good percentage from the line, 14-of-17 for Park and 15-of-19 for Culver-Stockton.

Park had four more turnovers than the Wildcats, but 14 more points came off those turnovers for Culver-Stockton as well.
Perry had 13 points to help her team's cause, while Mikayla Artis had a solid performance with a near double-double with nine points and nine rebounds.

Wiggins and Sokolova supported their team with eight and six points, respectively.   

Park will hold off on their typical midweek game on Wednesday and instead their next game will be Saturday, February 3 at 12pm in Breckon Sports Center. WATCH

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