Lauren Martin scored 11 points off the bench and Megan Slattery added 10 points for coach Jack Surridge’s squad, which plays Monday night at 7 p.m. at Rockford College. The team competes Thursday and Friday at the Concordia University Classic in nearby River Forest.
Slattery and Young made baskets in the opening moments of Saturday’s game and North Park never trailed from then on. Cassie Christensen scored at the 10:22 mark of the opening half to give the Vikings a 17-6 lead and the home team ended the first half with a 24-19 margin.
After Marian College’s Chelsea Borgrud hit a jumper with 13:05 left to cut North Park’s lead to 30-28, Martin hit a pair of 3-point buckets during a 9-0 run as the Vikings led 39-28 with 11:16 remaining. Marian (0-4) got within a point, 50-49, before Martin hit a 3-point shot to ice the game.
Young led her team with seven rebounds while Martin and Mount had four steals apiece for Surridge’s team. Borgrud had 15 points and Wilson had 13 for the visitors.
The Vikings had beaten host Milwaukee School of Engineering 64-41 last Tuesday behind Young’s 17 points. Tiffany Campbell added 12 points, Mount had 10 points and eight assists and Slattery had a game-high 13 rebounds to go with seven points.
Things weren’t as successful last weekend for the NPU men’s team, which lost 72-64 at Edgewood College in Madison, Wisconsin, on Sunday after being edged 74-59 by visiting St. Norbert College of Wisconsin on Saturday. The defeats dropped NPU to 1-4 overall.
In the Edgewood loss, Je’Shawn Stevenson produced 16 points and Cory Wilks added 11 points as the Vikings nearly erased a 17-point deficit in the second half. Matt Lindahl of Grace Covenant Church in Iron River, Michigan, helped the comeback with five points in 15 minutes of action. But 24 points apiece by Edgewood’s Seth Cooper and Charlie Averkamp was too much to overcome.
Against St. Norbert, Brett Mathisen had 13 points and eight rebounds (seven on the offensive end) while Lamar Townsend had 12 points, three assists and three steals. Coach Paul Brenegan’s team had dropped a 76-73 decision at Concordia University of Wisconsin last Tuesday despite 21 points by Townsend.
On 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, North Park travels to Elgin to play at Judson College.
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