MORRIS, Minn. – Minnesota Morris exploded for a 28-point fourth quarter, getting by the UW-Superior women's basketball team in the UMAC quarterfinals at Jim Gremmels Court Thursday. 
 
The Yellowjackets carried a seven-point 52-45 advantage on the road against the fourth-seeded Cougars into the fourth quarter, but UMM missed just eight field-goal attempts in the final 10 minutes, shooting nearly 58 percent, to overcome the deficit. Morris (6-3) advances to the semifinal round to play an opponent to be determined on Saturday. The fifth-seeded 'Jackets' season comes to a close at 4-6 overall and 2-4 in the UMAC.
 
Superior shot 51 percent from the field for the game, holding leads of 17-10 after one quarter and 37-29 at halftime, but couldn't fend off the hard-charging Cougars. Lexus Eagle Chasing scored 14 of her game-high 22 points in the second half to fuel the comeback. For UWS, Kaelyn Christian (St. Michael, Minn./St. Michael-Albertville Senior) tallied 22 points, while Mady Sanders (Lino Lakes, Minn./Centennial) recorded the 'Jackets' third double-double of the season with 13 points and a game-best and career-high-tying 10 rebounds.
 
Leading, 10-9, midway through the first quarter, UWS engineered a 7-0 run to take a 17-9 advantage with eight seconds remaining in the period. Four different players scored in the 4:08 stretch. Brianna O'Donnell (Richfield, Minn./Richfield) blocked a Jay Kwateh to shot to open the second quarter and Christian knocked down a 3-pointer off of an Ellie Leadstrom (Superior, Wis./Superior Senior) pass on the other end. The shot extended lead to double digits for the first time at 20-10, 50 seconds into the frame.
 
Morris cut the lead to three points two times over the next three and a half minutes, but Bryton Kukowski (Duluth, Minn./Hermantown), Sam Parendo (Proctor, Minn./Proctor), Kaija Davies (Aitkin, Minn./Aitkin) and Christian each helped UWS hit its next four shots for a 33-22 cushion with 3:21 remaining in the half. Eagle Chasing connected on a jumper in the paint, closing the first-half scoring.
 
The Cougars' Haley Wollschager registered four consecutive points, including a 3-pointer – to slice the deficit to 44-41 with 3:30 on the clock in the third quarter before Sanders completed a three-point play and Davies canned a trey to push the lead back to 10 with less than a minute left in the period.
 
Eagle Chasing gave her team its first lead since the early going at 6-4 with a jumper that made it 64-63 with 3:09 to play. Jadyn Sondrol added a 3-pointer and Ella Van Kempen a jumper, pushing the lead to 69-63 with a minute left. Christian then hit two free throws and later a jumper to cut the lead to 71-67 with 26 seconds left, but Superior got no closer.