Box Score The University of Minnesota Duluth kicked off its hardest stretch of the 2017-18 season with a road matchup with Winona State University. The Bulldogs had a tall task at hand as the Warriors came into Friday night riding an eight-game winning streak and was undefeated inside McCown Gymnasium this season.

Not if UMD had to say anything about that.

The Bulldogs made a statement with a 67-58 victory and became the fifth team to upend the second hottest team in the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference inside their venue since the 2014-15 season. The win was the first for the Bulldogs in four tries over the Warriors, which last won back on Feb. 15, 2014.

Freshman forward Sarah Grow went stride-by-stride with Hannah McGlone, who leads the conference in rebounding and field-goal percentage while averaging a double-double for the season, and picked up a career outing to propel UMD. Grow mustered a game-high 21 points which was also a career high, breaking her previous high of 16 set back on Nov. 22 against Lake Superior State University. The Circle Pines, Minn., native collected a team-high eight rebounds as well as she shot 9-for-13 from the floor. Grow, who has struggled in the first half of the season at the free throw line, got all three of her attempts to drop.

McGlone was stifled early including having her first shot attempt was sent back by Grow but managed to record 21 points and 13 rebounds by the final horn. 

UMD (10-4, 7-3 NSIC) also got a major contribution from another freshman. Ann Simonet registered 13 points. Three of her four baskets came from three-point range. The Park Center H.S. product was all over the place as she established three rebounds, three assists, a block and a steal. 

Junior guard Sammy Kozlowski gathered six assists on the night. Kozlowski, who is averaging 5.4 assists per match, has at least six assists in seven outings his season as she chases Minnesota State University-Moorhead's Jacky Volkert for the league lead in assists per game. Sophomore forward Katie Stark also put down 13 points and had seven of those points in the fourth quarter to help the Bulldogs pull away.

The Bulldogs limited Winona State (13-2, 9-2 NSIC) to 11 points in the final quarter as they overcame their second fourth-quarter deficit of the season. The Warriors had their biggest lead come in the fourth on a bucket by McGlone to give her team a 51-46 edge. UMD would put the clamps down and start converting on the offensive end. The Bulldogs, who came into tonight with the least amount of turnovers per game in all of Division II, had 10 turnovers in the first half but only committed one mistake in the final 20 minutes. After a three-point play by Grow, Stark gave UMD a 52-51 lead on a deep-wing three then followed that up with a jumper on the baseline. Grow knocked down the next two baskets and Simonet, with the Warriors applying a full-court trap, was able to split defenders and swish a jumper to all but seal the game. The Bulldogs finished with 21 points in the final quarter and went on a 21-7 run for the final 7:36.

The bench outscored the Warriors 13-2 and outhustled them for much of the third quarter as senior forward Allison Olley and sophomore guard Taylor Schneider had all 13 of the bench points. Olley had five offensive boards and Schneider had two assists. Senior forward Ayo Porte also came off the bench to add a block.

UMD will be back in action tomorrow night for the weekend sweep against Upper Iowa University. That NSIC engagement will start at 4:00 p.m. at Dorman Gymnasium in Fayette, Iowa.