OSHKOSH, Wis.- Nationally ranked UW-Oshkosh women's basketball shot better than 54 percent from the field on the way to defeating UW-Stout, 73-48, on Senior Day (Feb. 24) to clinch at least a share of its third consecutive WIAC regular season championship in Kolf Sports Center.
 
Oshkosh (21-2, 10-2 WIAC), ranked fourth in NCAA Division III by D3hoops.com and fifth by the Women's Basketball Coaches Association, shot 50 percent or better from the floor during each quarter and concluded the contest a season-best 26-for-48 (54.2 percent) overall, including 11-for-23 (47.8 percent) from 3-point range.
 
The Titans, who trailed for just a 41-second stretch in the opening quarter, secured their WIAC record-extending 17th regular season crown. The last WIAC program to win at least a share of three straight regular season championships was UW-Stout in 2005-07.
 
Oshkosh, which also claimed the top seed at the six-team WIAC Tournament that begins with first round games February 23, won its previous league regular season titles in 1985, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2004, 2006, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2024 and 2025.
 
Sammi Beyer (Appleton/Appleton East) led four Oshkosh double-digit scorers with 22 points, shooting 8-for-14 from the field, including 5-for-9 from beyond the 3-point arc.
 
Bridget Froehlke (Wrightstown/Wrightstown) added a season-best 16 points for Oshkosh, which also received 12 points and a game-high seven rebounds from Sarah Hardwick (Green Bay/Notre Dame Academy), and 12 points, four assists and three steals from Paige Seckar (Oshkosh/Oshkosh West).  Beyer also tied for the team lead with four assists.
 
Oshkosh surpassed its previous best shooting performance of 52.1 percent against UW-Whitewater on January 3. The Titans, who went 9-for-15 from 3-point range during the middle two periods, finished the game with a 16-9 advantage in assists. Both teams recorded 31 rebounds and two blocks.
 
Julia Rybacki paced Stout (11-12, 2-10 WIAC) with 12 points and three steals.
 
The Blue Devils, who boast the WIAC's top scoring offense at 67.9 points per contest entering the day and reached the Division III Final Four last season, shot 28.6 percent (14-49) from the field, 18.8 percent (3-16) from 3-point range, 70.8 percent (17-24) at the foul line and matched a season-low in scoring against Oshkosh's defense that ranked second nationally by holding opponents to 46.1 points per contest.
 
The Titans never trailed after Seckar's jumper in the lane provided a 6-4 edge with 7:24 left in the first quarter. Oshkosh then took the lead for good at 9-6 following a Beyer 3-pointer at the 5:36 mark.
 
Oshkosh went on to lead 20-8 at after one quarter, 44-19 at intermission and 59-39 entering the final period. After scoring eight unanswered points in the first quarter, the Titans put the game away with a 16-0 scoring run for a 30-8 cushion with 6:22 left in the second quarter.
 
The pivotal 16-point run began with a Seckar free throw with 71 seconds remaining in the first quarter and continued with a Hardwick layup and a Froehlke 3-pointer that beat the first-period buzzer.
 
Hardwick then scored twice in the lane to open the second-quarter scoring before Mallory Hoitink (Hartford/Slinger) and Beyer drilled 3-pointers on back-to-back possessions for the 30-8 lead.
 
Stout broke its nearly five-minute scoreless stretch when Rybacki split a pair of free throws at the 6:13 mark of the second period. However, the Blue Devils never got closer than 17 points over the final 27 minutes.
 
The Titans swept the season series with the Blue Devils, downing Stout by a 75-49 score on January 24.
 
Oshkosh will seek to clinch its third consecutive outright WIAC title when it hosts UW-La Crosse at 7 p.m. Wednesday (Feb. 18) in Kolf Sports Center. The Titans downed the Eagles, 55-48, on January 7 in La Crosse. No program has won three straight outright WIAC championships since UW-Green Bay claimed the Division II section of the league from 1980-82.