EUGENE, Ore. – Senior Ayden Krupke became the seventh player in Bushnell women's basketball history to cross the 1000-point plateau for her career on Thursday in a 70-66 loss to Warner Pacific.
 
The Beacons (5-15, 3-9 CCC) mustered a huge second-half comeback, rallying from a 15-point halftime deficit to get within four, but it wasn't enough to overcome a long scoring drought from the first half.
 
After jumping out to a 14-4 lead just five minutes into the contest, the Beacons hit just one field goal over the next ten minutes and shot 13% in the second quarter while the Knights climbed their way to a 39-24 advantage at the intermission.
 
The late charge for Bushnell, which including a 47% shooting clip in the fourth quarter, was fueled by Karlee VonMoos, coming off the bench to score nine points in the final three and a half minutes of the game.
 
Krupke finished with 17 in the game, adding five steals, while Maddie Gerhart scored 17 as well for the game-high. Bushnell ended the game with a number of statistical advantages, scoring 15 points off 19 WPU turnovers, and turning 21 offensive rebounds into a 15-2 margin in second-chance points. Ciena Tumoine led all players with ten rebounds, getting six on the offensive glass.
 
Bushnell also led 30-22 on points in the paint, but the Knights were able to go deeper down the roster, outscoring the Beacons 37-11 off the bench, with nine of those 11 Bushnell points coming from VonMoos.
 
"The second quarter really let us down tonight," said Head Coach Chad Meadors, "and didn't play with follow-through on either end of the court. We let them do whatever they wanted to offensively and they took advantage. You have to play four quarters in our conference and they made a couple more plays than we did. The third and fourth quarters were how we want to play the whole game. We took things away and they still made shots."
 
The Knights (9-9, 5-6) were led by Shielteal Watah and Bryten Gumke, both coming off the bench to combine for 29 points. Matty Woolf and Skylar Groesbeck added ten points apiece with Groesbeck earning a team-high eight rebounds.
 
UP NEXT: The Beacons will return to action on January 30, hitting the road for Kirkland, Washington to take on Northwest University (6-12, 2-8) at 5:30 pm.