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Badgers’ women’s basketball team dismantled Ontario Tech, winning big in the 17th annual Shoot for the Cure game

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Shoot for the Cure 

Saturday’s game between Brock and Ontario Tech marked the 17th annual Shoot for the Cure game, an initiative across U Sports aimed at raising money and awareness for breast cancer research. 

Last year, Shoot for the Cure raised over $115,000 for the Canadian Cancer Society, and since its inception in 2007, it has raised more than $1.85 million. 

This year, the goal across all U Sports women’s basketball programs in Canada is to raise $100,000. 

Donations can be made online through the Badgers’ Canadian Cancer Society fundraising website.

Brock Badgers vs. Ontario Tech Ridgebacks 

The Brock Badgers women’s basketball team trounced a depleted Ontario Tech Ridgebacks squad 87-35 to win their sixth straight game, getting contributions from up and down the roster. 

Brookelyn Keltos, first-year guard from St. Catharines, scored a game-high and career-high 16 points while leading all scorers with four made three-pointers.

Allison Addy added three more three-pointers, two in the opening quarter, to finish with 11 points and five rebounds in only 18 minutes of action. 

Addy’s first quarter shooting dominance kickstarted the Badgers after a sluggish opening to the game. 

After the Ridgebacks got the 9-5 lead, the Badgers went on a tear scoring 19 unanswered points to end the quarter up 24-9 and they never looked back.

Keltos and Addy combined for 13 of Brock’s 24 points in the second, while limiting the Ridgebacks to only eight points on a brutal 23.1 per cent shooting. 

The Badgers, on the heels of tying the TMU Bold for the top spot in the OUA Central with a win, headed into halftime up 48-17. The third quarter was the Ridgebacks’ most efficient shooting quarter of the game, shooting 36.36 per cent, while it was the Badgers’ least efficient shooting quarter of the game, shooting 46.67 per cent – which shows Brock’s supremacy over Ontario Tech.

Madalyn Weinert and Oluwatito Akinnusi, two of the top ten scorers in the OUA, each scored four in the quarter as they finished the game with 15 and 10 points respectively. 

However, Ontario Tech’s Felicity Villarin countered the Badgers’ stars shooting prowess, scoring eight of her team’s 13 third quarter points to stay even with the Badgers throughout the frame. 

The Badgers’ lead was only extended by two to end the quarter but grew larger in the fourth. 

Keltos scored nine points in the fourth, while Weinert and Madison MacInnis – who picked up 14 rebounds in their previous home win versus Algoma – each grabbed four boards in the quarter as rebounding was a massive advantage for the Badgers. 

Brock outrebounded Ontario Tech by 23, 47-24, which led to the Badgers scoring 36 points in the paint compared to the Ridgebacks’ five. 

The mix of shooting, rebounding, paint points and bench production led to the enormous victory, keeping the Badgers undefeated in the new year and within the top four playoff spots in the OUA

Next up for the Badgers is a pair of games this weekend in Thunder Bay against the Lakehead Thunderwolves. For more information on the Brock Badgers women’s basketball team, head to gobadgers.ca.

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