Box Score

The University of Regina's women's basketball team edged the Acadia Axewomen by an 87-84 margin on Sunday afternoon in a consolation semifinal contest at the 2012 CIS Championship at the Jack Simpson Gymnasium.

The victory gives the Cougars a berth in the consolation final on Monday afternoon. They'll play provincial rival Saskatchewan, as the Huskies defeated McGill in the other consolation semifinal on Sunday.

Lindsay Ledingham led the Cougars with 19 points and 10 rebounds. The fourth-year forward did most of her damage from the free throw line, where she was 11-for-13 in the win. Brittany Read also registered a double-double for the Cougars, scoring 11 points and adding 11 rebounds. Joanna Zalesiak had 17 points and six assists for the U of R, while Danielle Schmidt scored 15 and Alyssia Kajati had 10 points and nine rebounds in just 15 minutes off the bench.

Kristy Moore had 19 points to lead Acadia.

It was all Acadia early on, as the Axewomen scored the first nine points of the contest before Schmidt finally got the Cougars on the board with a layup. The Cougars trailed by as many as 11 in the first quarter, but ended the quarter on a 15-2 run and led 18-16 going into the second.

Acadia came out strong in the second quarter, taking the lead back with a 13-3 run and building up as much as a 12-point advantage. Carly Graham hit a three-pointer late in the quarter for the Cougars to get to within five, but an Acadia bucket just before the buzzer gave the Axewomen a 43-36 advantage at the half.

The Cougars scored seven straight points to end the third quarter and take a three-point lead into the fourth, where the teams traded leads six times in the first three minutes of the quarter before the Cougars pulled ahead for good. Regina saw a six-point lead dwindle to just a one-point advantage with 1:25 left in the fourth after a Jasmine Parent layup for Acadia, but the Cougars held the Axemen off the board the rest of the way until another Parent layup at the buzzer with the outcome already decided.

Two free throws apiece from Ledingham and Schmidt and a big block by Zalesiak in the final minute of the contest helped seal the victory for the Cougars.

NOTES: Sunday's game was the first postseason meeting between Regina and Acadia ... the Cougars and Saskatchewan will meet on Monday for the fourth time in the postseason and just the second time in a national tournament ... the only other time Regina and Saskatchewan have played against each other in a CIS Championship game was in 2010, when the Huskies scored a 78-67 win in the third-place game.