Game Summary

WINONA, Minn. — The Saint Mary's University women's basketball team knew they would have their hands full when they took the court Sunday against Concordia.

After all, the Cobbers entered Sunday's game alone atop the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference standings and boasted a 13-4 overall record that included a current five-game winning streak.

What the Cardinals didn't realize, however, was that the Cobbers' Melanie Hageman would pick Sunday to have a near-perfect performance.

In fact, were it not for a missed free throw in the second half, the Concordia senior would have been perfect.

Hageman scored a game- and season-high 28 points — connecting on all nine of her field goal attempts — in leading the Cobbers to a 60-41 win over the Cardinals at the SMU Gym.

The Cobbers, behind Hageman's 17 first-half points, jumped out to an 11-point, 33-22, advantage at the intermission, and never let the Cardinals closer than eight in improving to 12-2 in the MIAC and 14-4 overall.

The Cardinals, coming off a pair of wins over Augsburg (52-41) and Macalester (43-37), could never seem to find their shooting touch against the Cobbers, hitting just 14 of 53 field goal attempts (26 percent), while also struggling from the free throw line, were SMU went a dismal 10-for-27.

Alyse Coates (West St. Paul, Minn.) — who posted her first career double with 11 points and 12 rebounds against Augsburg last Wednesday — led the Cardinals with 10 points, while Jessica Weisbrod (Rollingstone, Minn.) pulled down a season-high 12 rebounds.