The UW-Whitewater women's basketball team honored their seniors with a 65-56 win over UW-Eau Claire in the regular season finale in Kachel Gym. The five Warhawk seniors including Olivia Zuege (Green Bay, Wis./Preble), Mallory Oloffson (Normal, Ill./Normal Community), Katie Hildebrandt (McFarland, Wis./McFarland), Maggie Trautsch (Sun Prairie, Wis./DeForest) and Kacie Carollo (Whitewater, Wis./Whitewater) were honored at halftime. 

In addition to the senior recognition, Carollo broke a record that had stood for over 40 years and Trautsch reached a career milestone. Carollo needed less than two minutes to haul in her first rebound of the game and become the program's all-time leading rebounder with 825. She surpasses a mark that was set by Wendy Beatty in 1983. Trautsch scored her 1,000th career point with the first bucket of the second half. She is the 20th Warhawk to hit the milestone in program history. 

Following a low scoring opening quarter, 10-7 in favor of UWW, the Warhawks picked up the efficiency in the second quarter hitting over 57% from the floor to take a 27-22 advantage into the break. 

On the other side of the intermission, UW-Whitewater came out looking more like themselves. Trautsch sparked the Warhawks with her milestone layup nine seconds in and Carollo followed with a pull-up, fastbreak triple. From that point, UWW gradually built upon the lead pushing the gap to double digits by the six minute mark. 

The Blugolds battled back, cutting the lead back to six midway through the fourth, but Carollo had the answer with back-to-back three-pointers in less than a minute. A few seconds later, it was Trautsch connecting from deep for a 9-0 run that extended the margin back to 15, 60-45, with 3:37 on the clock. UWW sealed the game at the free throw line for the win. 

Carollo led all scorers with a career-high 34. UWW's all-time leader in three-pointers made added six more to her career total, knocking down 6-10 Saturday. She hit 11-16 from the floor and was perfect from the charity stripe, 6-6. Carollo added 10 rebounds for her seventh double-double of the season. 

Trautsch pitched in 9 point bolstered by 2-4 from beyond the arc adding three assists and three steals. Hildebrandt hauled in six boards while Oloffson tallied four. 

With all of Saturday's games across the league in the books, the field and seedings are set for the WIAC Tournament. The Warhawks claim the #3 seed and will host UW-River Falls Tuesday at 7 PM in Kachel Gym. The winner will advance to the WIAC Tournament Semifinals in a road game scheduled for Thursday.