FORT WAYNE, Indiana – The Wright State women's basketball team fell 64-50 to No. 2 seed Purdue Fort Wayne in the 2025 Barbasol Horizon League Championship quarterfinals on Thursday evening.
The Raiders (10-22) finished shooting 30.4 percent from the field, shooting 28.6 percent from three. Wright State had two players in double figures, as
Amaya Staton led the team with her tenth consecutive double-double, recording 11 points and 15 rebounds, while
Macie Taylor added 10 points for the Raiders.
Claire Henson added nine points, while
Lauren Scott contributed seven. Three Raiders – Henson,
Makiya Miller, and Taylor – recorded two assists.
Following Staton's 15 rebounds was Henson and Taylor, each grabbing four. Staton paced the Raiders with three blocks, while Taylor recorded a team-high four steals.
WSU took an early 17-15 lead after the first quarter, highlighted by a nine-point run. The run began with a second-chance three from Scott, followed by a Miller free throw, before Scott added a turnaround jumper before the media timeout to take the lead 8-7. Coming out of the timeout,
Ellie Magestro-Kennedy added another Raider three, taking a four-point lead. The Mastodons answered with a three of their own, but Taylor regained WSU's advantage with another three-pointer, 14-10. After a PFW pull-up jump shot, a Miller three-pointer gave WSU its largest lead of the quarter, 17-12. With less than 30 seconds on the clock, PFW sunk a jumper from outside the arc, ending the quarter 17-15.
The Mastodons outscored WSU 18-12 in the second quarter, taking a 33-29 lead at the half. Staton led the team in the second, tallying seven points and six rebounds. The graduate forward notably sank a three pointer with just over a minute remaining, giving WSU their final lead of the day, 29-28.
Wright State remained behind in the second half, getting outscored 31-21. Taylor led the team in the final 20 minutes, shooting 1-of-2 from the field and 5-of-6 from the line. Staton added two blocks in under a minute during the third quarter, securing a rebound that set up a driving layup by Henson with just over five minutes left in the period. The Raiders bested PFW in second-chance points, 7-6, and bench points, 10-6, in the second half. The 'Dons ended the game with a six-point run, all from the free throw line, ending the day 64-50.
Purdue Fort Wayne (24-7) finished shooting 41.5 percent from the field, 44.4 percent from three, and 85.7 percent on the free throw line. Amellia Bromenschenkel led PFW with 15 points, while two other Mastodons also scored in double figures. Lauren Ross added 11 points for PFW and Jazzlyn Linbo 10. Linbo paced PFW on the boards with a team-high nine rebounds.
