ADA, Ohio --- The Washington and Lee women's basketball team made a furious fourth-quarter rally, but a made three-point jumper from UW-Oshkosh's Jenna Jorgensen pushed the Titans past the Generals, 58-55, in the first round of the NCAA Tournament on Friday.
 
With 14 seconds left in the contest the score favored the Blue and White (22-7), 55-53,  Jorgensen missed a pair of free throws to give the Generals the ball back. However, the Titans forced a quick turnover on the ensuing inbounds play and Jorgensen sank a triple with 3.0 on the clock to give the Titans the final lead of the game.
 
Oshkosh had seized a commanding 49-36 lead after a Jorgensen triple opened the fourth-quarter scoring. W&L first-year Mary Schleusner (Charlotte, N.C. / Charlotte Latin School) then hit back-to-back shots to spark a 14-0 run that spanned 4:33 and gave the Generals a 50-49 lead with 3:30 left. The teams then exchanged scores over the next two minutes, before Schleusner hit a jumper, drew a foul and made her and-one shot to push the W&L lead to 55-53.
 
Both sides had a slow start to the game but the Generals owned a 12-10 lead through the first 10 minutes of play after holding UWO to just 4-of-21 shooting. The Titans opened the second quarter on an 11-3 run to move ahead by four points, the teams then scored 12 points each over the final 5:15 of the stanza to keep it at a four-point halftime margin. Schleusner and classmate Quinn McGuinness (Columbia, N.J. / North Warren Regional) each had four points during that span.
 
Battling score-for-score, the game remained at a four-point margin that favored UWO until 3:22 to play in the third quarter. The Titans scored eight straight points prior to W&L's comeback.
 
Schleusner finished the game with 19 points, 21 rebounds and six blocks. It was her third game this season in which she eclipsed the 20-rebound mark and just the fifth 20-rebound performance by a single-player in program history. Schleusner concluded her impressive rookie campaign with the second-most blocks in a season in program history (90) and the most rebounds in a season (344).
 
Junior Hanna Malik (Raleigh, N.C. / Athens Drive) scored 11 points and connected on a pair of three-point shots in the game. Those two makes put her final season total at 72, which tied Taylor Casey '20 for the fourth most in a season. With 75 makes from long range last year, Malik also joins Casey as the only players in program history to make 72 or more triples in two separate seasons. First-year Sarah Zimmerman (Cincinnati, Ohio / Cincinnati Country Day) added eight points and pulled down eight rebounds, and she made all six of her free-throw attempts.
 
Jorgensen scored 17 points while playing all 40 minutes of the game, she came away with eight rebounds and three steals also. Ava Douglas notched 14 points, six assists and three steals, while Kayce Vaile finished with 11 points, five rebounds and three blocks.
 
Over the course of the 2022-23 women's basketball season, the Generals tied two program records and rewrote the record book on 18 occasions across individual and team game and season marks. Two of the team records included most wins in a season (22) and single-season winning percentage (.759). The Generals also shattered the season blocks record, finishing the campaign with 241 (previous record - 142). At an average of 8.3 per game, the Generals remain the top team in all of Division III in both total blocks and average.