NEW ULM, Minn. – While the Eagles didn't have their best shooting performance of the season, the University of Northwestern held host-Martin Luther College to 20 percent on the afternoon to beat the Knights 59-35 on their home court. The victory improves UNW's Upper Midwest Athletic Conference (UMAC) record to 9-1.

Neither team was able to gain much of an advantage until past the halfway point of the first period, when the Eagles turned a one-point margin into seven over the course of eight minutes, a stretch that at one point went nearly six minutes without a basket from either team. Tiffany Stubbs (Ames, Iowa/Des Moines Christian)' three-pointer at the 1:56 mark of the half – her second of the afternoon – kept Northwestern's lead at five before Regan Cooper (Pella, Iowa/Pella)'s layup put UNW up 22-15 heading into the halftime break.

The Eagles' buffer expanded in a big way in the second half, when UNW out-scored Martin Luther by 17 points as the Knights were only able to convert on seven offensive opportunities, going 1-14 from behind the three-point line in the final 20 minutes. Northwestern had its first double-digit lead on a Stubbs make 1:15 into the period before using a 13-0 run to go up by 20 as Stubbs made another trey in the games' final five minutes. The lead was as high as 26 before Northwestern hit the road with a 59-35 victory in hand with back-to-back wins on Friday and Saturday.

Stubbs only finished with 11 points, but all four of the sophomore's makes seemed to come at momentous times throughout the game. Cooper's 17-point effort on 6-8 shooting led Northwestern, with her 10 rebounds accounting for a double-double for the first-year Eagle. 14 different UNW players saw action in a game that finished with a significantly different result than Friday's one-point win at Bethany Lutheran College.

Grace Schultz's seven-point effort was Martin Luther's best on the day. Northwestern scored 20 points off of 17 Knight turnovers despite committing 21 of their own.

Now 13-8 overall, UNW returns to the friendly confines of the Ericksen Center gymnasium next week for its second-to-last weekend of UMAC play, hosting Northland College and the College of St. Scholastica on Friday and Saturday. The LumberJills from Northland will be Northwestern's first opponent, with Friday's tip-off being scheduled for 5:30 p.m.