MADISON, Wis. - The Rockford University women's basketball team lost its first game in two weeks on Saturday, when the Regents fell 72-57 on the road to the NACC-leading Edgewood College Eagles. Although Rockford never led in the game, the Regents gave the Eagles all they could handle for much of the afternoon. Rockford trailed by just one point at the end of the first and was within striking distance the majority of the game. Unfortunately, it was the Eagles' hot shooting that proved to be the difference. Edgewood shot a near season-high 53.6% from the floor and made seven more buckets than Rockford, despite taking ten less shots than the Regents.
- Edgewood scored the first nine points of the game to race out to a 9-0 lead exactly four minutes into the first quarter.
- The Eagles advantage hovered around eight points, until the Regents scored the final seven points of the period, including a Jocelyn Callahan triple in the final seconds, to cut the Edgewood lead down to a single point at 17-16. Rockford went 3-for-4 over that span, while the Eagles missed both their shot attempts and turned the ball over.
- Edgewood proceeded to score the first two baskets of a back-and-forth second quarter and reestablished a five-point lead.
- The Eagles led by as many as seven in the quarter, but Nia Wilkerson knocked down the final shot of the first half to cut the Eagle lead to 37-32 heading into the break.
- Unfortunately, Rockford was outscored 18-9 in the third, and Edgewood took at the time, game-high 14-point lead into the fourth and final quarter.
- The Regents were unable to get any closer than 11 the remainder of the game and fell by a final score of 72-57.
- Katie Paredes finished with a team-high 10 points, 5 rebounds and 2 assists.
- Emily Rich added 9 points on 3-of-6 shooting from beyond the arc.
- Nia Wilkerson had 8 points, 5 rebounds, 3 assists and 3 steals.
