Junior Shelby Wiederhoeft scored a team-high 18 points and grabbed a season-high 16 rebounds, as Buena Vista had 15 players score on Saturday afternoon during a 111-43 victory over Illinois Tech to close out play at the Simpson College Classic.
Wiederhoeft made 8-of-13 shots from the floor and had both eight offensive and defensive rebounds. It marks her fifth double-double in seven games to start the year. Malarie Gilley followed with 13 points and six rebounds, while Susan Kies and Sidney Beckman combined to go 5-of-10 from downtown en route to 12 and 11 points, respectively. Jade Vlotho went 4-of-6 from the field and made both free-throw attempts to chime in with 10 points, while also grabbing seven boards.
As a team, the Beavers shot 53.2 percent from the field, including 8-of-18 from downtown, despite making just 21-of-31 at the free-throw line. The team also committed a season-low 10 turnovers.
The Beavers held Illinois Tech to just 21 percent shooting from the field and forced 25 turnovers.
BVU scored the first six points of the game before Illinois Tech got back to 6-5. The Beavers then followed with a 16-4 spurt to bump the lead to 22-9 midway through the half before extending it to 31-13 just three minutes later.
The Beavers didn't take their foot off the pedal from there and took a 51-19 lead into the half.
The lead grew to 75-25 six minutes into the second half, and BVU had reached 90 points with nearly seven minutes to play. The team reached the century mark for the second time this season on a bucket by Alicia Savoy with 4:25 left.
The 111 points scored is tied for the third-highest single-season mark in school history, and the most points the team has scored since setting the record last season during a 118-57 road win at Crown College. It's also just the second time the team has scored at least 100 points in more than one game during a single season since it did so three times back in 1996-97.
Buena Vista improves to 4-3 on the year and will get set to play its home opener on Tuesday night when the team plays host to Martin Luther at 6:00pm.