QU women’s basketball team never gets on track in GLVC loss to UMSL

QUINCY — Discombobulated might be the most apropos way to describe the way things went Thursday night for the Quincy University women’s basketball team.

Penciled into the starting lineup like usual, sophomore forward Chomp Danso was a last-minute scratch because of a health concern. It left the Hawks out of sorts from the start as Missouri-St. Louis scored the game’s 11 points and never surrendered the lead in a 62-44 Great Lakes Valley Conference victory at Pepsi Arena.

Quincy junior forward Cymirah Williams snapped UMSL’s scoring binge with a jumper a little more than three minutes into the game and chiseled the deficit to 19-17 when Williams scored 2:09 into the second quarter.

UMSL (5-3, 3-2 GLVC) answered with a 17-4 run and took a 36-21 lead into halftime.

The Hawks (3-6, 3-2 GLVC) shot just 19.1 percent (4 of 21) from the field in the second quarter and went 0 of 7 from 3-point range. They missed all four 3-point attempts in the third quarter as well, finishing 3 of 24 from 3-point range (12.5 percent) and 18 of 65 from the field (27.7 percent).

Williams led the Hawks with 16 points and 11 rebounds, while Morgan Ramthun was one of three Tritons in double figures with 19 points.