Mount Vernon, Iowa - The Thunder women's basketball team returned to the win column on Wednesday night with a 72-45 nonconference victory at Cornell College in the first-ever meeting between the two teams. The victory moves the Thunder to 8-3 overall on the season while the Rams fall to 3-4. Wheaton will wrap up the 2019 portion of its schedule on Saturday night, when the Thunder host North Park University for a 5 pm tip-off at King Arena.

Tonight's victory was the 200th career victory for Head Coach Kent Madsen. With a career record of 200-58 for a 77.5% career winning percentage, Madsen becomes the fastest women's basketball coach in CCIW history to reach the 200-win milestone. Madsen is the third active CCIW coach with 200 career victories, and the second coach in program history with 200 wins.

Wheaton shot 43.9% from the field including a similiar 43.2% clip from the three-point line. A week removed from setting a new school record with 15 made three-pointers in a win over Augustana, the Thunder once again established a program record with 16 made three-pointers in 37 attempts. Wheaton also finished the game with 23 assists on 25 made field goals. Cornell finished the game shooting 37% from the field and 30.4% from the three-point line.

Wheaton's first four baskets of the game came from beyond the arc as the Thunder led for most of the first quarter, finishing the opening stanza with a 17-14 lead after a three-point play by Jill Berg. A 10-2 run to start the second quarter pushed the lead to 26-16 on a Kirsten Madsen lay-up with 6:10 left in the first half. Cornell responded with a 9-2 run to pull within three, but Wheaton finished the half with five straight points to lead 33-25 at halftime.

Hannah Williams opened the second half with a three-pointer, sparking a 13-0 run to start the third quarter for the Thunder that saw Williams and Hannah Frazier combine for 11 of the 13 points. Cornell would get no closer than 16 points the rest of the way as the Thunder led 58-39 at the end of the third and rode an 11-0 fourth quarter run to a game-high 29 point lead on its way to a 72-45 victory while holding Cornell to just six points in the fourth quarter.

Hannah Frazier led the Thunder with 17 points and eight rebounds to lead four Thunder players in double figures. Kirsten Madsen tallied 13 points, four rebounds, four assists, and four steals. Hannah Williams and Kristi Demski each had 12 points. Jordan Myroth finished with a game-high seven assists.