ASHLAND, Ohio – The season came to an end for the Purdue Northwest women's basketball team following Tuesday night's loss in the First Round of the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Tournament. The 11th-seeded Pride fell 81-41 to No. 6 seed Ashland at Kates Gymnasium.
 
PNW (4-15), which made its first postseason appearance in the NCAA D2 era, never led in the contest and suffered through its lowest shooting percentage of the season by going 12 of 52 (23%) from the field . Eight of those made shots were from beyond the arc.
 
Sophomore Anjel Galbraith led the Pride with 14 points and four 3-pointers. Senior Danielle Nennig added nine points and a pair of threes in the final game of her career.
 
Ashland (12-7) did all of its damage from beyond the arc, as Sam Chable drained nine threes and led all scorers with 29 points. Chable's previous career high was 10 points before Tuesday night's outing.
 
The Eagles never looked back after a 12-2 run on four consecutive treys midway through the second quarter. Chable hit three of those shots from deep to push Ashland ahead by double digits. The run came right after PNW trimmed the deficit to four following Galbraith's 3-pointer to make the score 20-16 near the seven-minute mark.
 
Ashland made 17 threes on the night, including 10 of their 12 made field goals in the first half from three-point range to lead 36-21 at the break.
 
In the third quarter, PNW remained cold from the field and endured seven minutes of game action without a made shot. The Pride were outscored 16-4 in the frame. Galbraith's three at the 2:48 mark was the first PNW shot to fall since Nennig's three with 1:50 before halftime.
 
Ashland kept its foot on the gas in the fourth quarter, shooting 71 percent and knocking down seven threes.
 
Erin Daniels was the only other player in double digits for the Eagles with 11 points. PNW limited Ashland's two leading scorers, Karlee Pireu and Annie Roshak, to single digits in the scoring column.
 
The Eagles will move on to the GLIAC Quarterfinals, which will be hosted on PNW's Westville Campus on Thursday.