Game Summary

WINONA, Minn. — After spending the past two games feeling the wrath of two of the best teams in all of NCAA Division III, it was time for the Saint Mary's University women's basketball team to be on the giving, rather than the receiving end of a whipping.

Fresh off humbling losses to nationally ranked St. Benedict (79-57) and Carleton (78-37), the Cardinals did a little role-playing Wednesday evening against Macalester. Rather than receiving the punishment, the Cardinals dished it out, as they erupted for 38 second-half points en route to a 73-43 drubbing of the visiting Scots.

Beth Walch (Altura, Minn.) scored a team-high 14 points to lead the way for the Cardinals, who snapped a season-high five-game losing streak with their second-highest offensive output of the season. Jamie Rattunde (Rollingstone, Minn.) snapped out of her two-game scoring slump with 12 points and 11 rebounds, while Angie Arrington (Spring Grove, Minn.) chipped in 12 points.

MIAC scoring leader Afton Hanson netted a game-high 15 points as Macalester dropped its ninth straight.

SMU left little doubt, racing to a 16-point, 35-19 halftime advantage, before pouring it on with a 38-24 scoring edge over the game's final 20 minutes.