Freshman Tanya Rickenberg leads team with 15 points
By Scott VanEman, SID assistant
December 29, 2003
The Bluffton College women’s basketball team was defeated by Olivet 76-41 Monday evening. Bluffton is now 0-9 on the season.
The Beavers fell to a 43-19 point deficit at the end of the first half in which they shot a dismal 23.8 percent from the field. Bluffton improved their shooting to 37.5 percent from the field in the second half but were still out-scored by Olivet by a 33-22 margin.
Freshman Tanya Rickenberg (Defiance/Paulding) had yet another strong performance for Bluffton posting a team leading 15 points on the day. Karin Schaller (Jenera/Arlington) closely followed with 14 points and a team high nine rebounds. Schaller added two blocks to her ever-growing single season record which now stands at 49. Schaller is now four blocks away from eclipsing the single season blocks record in the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference.
Bluffton will continue their stay in
