Click the thumbnails to hear post-game comments from Norse Coach James Fassett, and to hear Makenna Hendrickson's player spotlight interview.

ESCANABA---The Bay College Norse women's basketball team kept pace in the MCCAA North Conference standings Wednesday night with an easy 95-29 win over the Kirtland Community College Firebirds at the Bay College Gym.

The Norse jumped to a 26-4 lead after the first quarter and led 47-10 at halftime as they improved to 5-1 on the season in conference play, 12-8 overall.
 

“It was a good win,” Norse Coach James Fassett said. “Obviously, they're a down a little bit, so we just took advantage of their zone and worked on our zone offense a little bit. When you can hold a college team in the 20's, that's pretty darn good. It was a goodgame all-around. We were able to get some of our kids in to play and to gain some confidence.”
 

Anna Axtell, who was named the MCCAA North Player of the Week on Tuesday, kept lighting it up in this one. She scored 30 more points (on 12-of-16 shooting from the floor). Axtell did not play in the entire fourth quarter, in fact, those 30 points came in just 23 minutes of floor time.
 

“Anna can do it inside and out,” Fassett said. “When she's struggling outside, she goes inside to score. Today, she was really comfortable on the perimeter. We were having good ball movement offensively, and it seemed like when we made that one more pass to Anna, she didn't miss many.”
 

Lauren Zawada had a monster game, with a double-double of 21 points and 13 rebounds. Ten of those rebounds came on the offensive end.

Kennedy Sproule had ten points, eight rebounds, and she blocked five shots. Kadie Kaukola contributed eleven points and dished out five assists. And point guard Makenna Hendrickson had 11 rebounds and handed out six assists. All nine Bay players scored.
 

Kirtland (3-10 overall, 2-4 MCCAA) got six points each from Kayla McCoy and Adrianna Gilmore.
 

Bay College (12-8 overall, 5-1 MCCAA) has its biggest challenge of the season this Saturday on a road trip to Mt. Pleasant this weekend to face the Mid Michigan College Lakers.

Mid Michigan is undefeated in conference play and has crossed 100 points in all of those wins, except for Wednesday's 90-70 win over Miskegon Community College. The Lakers are ranked seventh in the nation in the NJCAA-II women's poll.
 

“They all shoot, they keep the floor spread, they like to dribble-drive and kick, and they like to make that extra pass,” Fassett said. “Defensively, the rotations that we've been working on, and the rotations that we've been good at, have to be even better.”
 

Tip-off is set for 1:00 Saturday at the Maury Courts. You can tune in on Maverick 106.3 FM and on-line at www.baynorse.com.