It's the basketball equivalent of good hitting and good pitching.  If you have both you win.  If you have one you can win.  If you have neither you lose.  And over the course of a long schedule you keep your fingers crossed because it happens to every team.  Saturday night it was UW-Whitewater's turn.  UW-W gave up 95 points, tied for the most they have allowed this season, and shot 37%, second worst of the season, in a 95-77 loss to UW-Stout at Kachel Gym in Williams Center in Whitewater Saturday night.

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Jerrel Enerson-Mathews got Stout off to a 14-3 start, scoring 12 of those points.  Two minutes later the Blue Devils ran out ten straight points for a 29-8 lead, the largest of the first half.  UW-W whittled the lead down to ten, 46-36, by half time. 

UW-W hit a three-pointer to open the second half to cut the margin to seven points, but Stout spent the last 17:37 of the game with a double digit lead.  With 10:58 left in the game the Blue Devils led by twenty-eight, 78-50.   The closest the Warhawks would get the rest of the way was 87-75.

While Whitewater was having trouble with its shooting eye, UW-S shot 53% from the field and 41% from three point range.  Stout had a 46-38 rebound advantage.

UW-W senior center Dustin Mitchell (Lac Du Flambeau/Lakeland) collected his seventh double-double of the season with 28 points and 11 rebounds.  Senior guard Dupree Fletcher (Milwaukee/Rufus King) added 16 points, and junior guard #D.J. Dantzler# had 15.  Sophomore forward Alex Edmunds (Cedarburg/) led both teams with 14 rebounds, his season high, with nine of the boards coming on the offensive glass.

Enerson-Mathews dropped in 24 points and tied for his team lead with nine rebounds.  Eric Hostetter scored 20 and Jerrod Buchholtz had ten points.  Mahlon Thomas had nine boards, and Erik Olson passed for eleven assists, the most by a Warhawk opponent this season.

UW-W will host UW-La Crosse Wednesday at 7:00 in Kachel Gym of Williams Center. 

For additional information:  Pat Miller, UW-W coach