Trips home from Michigan's Upper Peninsula always seem just a bit shorter when a team has two wins coming home with it.
The Hillsdale College women's basketball team improved to 2-0 on the season with a 71-61 win over McKendree University Saturday afternoon in a game played at Lake Superior State University's Bud Cooper Gymnasium. The Chargers play an exhibition game against Eastern Michigan University on Tuesday, Nov. 25 before opening conference play the first week of December.
Eight different players scored points for Hillsdale in a game that featured lower shooting percentages than in its first game Friday night. But that didn't affect senior Megan Fogt.
A 2013-14 All-American, Fogt hasn't let up through the new season's first weekend, as she dominated the Bearcats to the tune of 26 points, 13 rebounds, 5 steals and 2 blocked shots in 32 minutes on the court. She went 9-for-14 from the field and drained eight of her 10 free throw attempts in another dominating performance.
In the second half of the game, Fogt scored her 1,000th career point, making her just the 14th player in Charger women's basketball history to hit that milestone. She now has 1,015 points in her fabulous career.
The Chargers shot 42 percent from the field in the game, and made just two 3-point baskets, one by senior Kadie Lowery and one by sophomore Morgan Blair. Hillsdale did outrebound McKendree 44-36 and limited the Bearcats to 39 percent shooting from the field. McKendree also coughed the ball up 25 times, thanks to Hillsdale's defensive pressure.
Senior guard Brooke Borowski scored 9 points, and junior Kayla Geffert had 6.
Freshman center Allie Dittmer had her second double-digit scoring game in as many days, coming off the bench to score 12 points in 20 minutes, on 5-for-8 shooting from the field.