ROCKFORD, Ill. – The Drake University women's basketball team bounced back Saturday with a 100-91 win over DePaul in its second game of the WNIT.
 
Drake (17-12), which advances to Monday's consolation championship game against Bowling Green at 4 p.m., had six players score in double figures against DePaul (14-10), led by Kierra Collier's game-high 21 points.
 
The Bulldogs made a season-high 17 three-pointers, including Sarah Beth Gueldner, who made a career-high six threes and finished with 20 points, one below her career-high. Collier knocked down her second-most three-pointers with five.
 
Maggie Bair added 15 points and Taylor McAulay had a career-high 14 points. Rounding out the group were Maddie Monahan and Grace Berg with 11 and 10 points, respectively.
 
After struggling to score Friday against Milwaukee, Drake came out on fire against DePaul, never trailing after Berg scored the game's first points. Later, Bair made three-straight layups to lead 13-5 and force a Blue Demons' timeout. The Bulldogs led 30-21 after one quarter and built its margin to double digits at halftime, 57-43.
 
DePaul pulled within four points early in the fourth quarter but McAulay scored five-straight and later Monahan made a three to push the lead back to 10. The Blue Demons cut it to single digits several times but every time the Bulldogs answered with big baskets by Berg, Gueldner, McAulay or Monahan.
 
Monday's game against Bowling Green will be the first-ever meeting between the teams. It will be the final game of the 2020-21 season for Drake.