Senior Allie Tapanes (Winfield, Ill.) entered Tuesday night's game with the Concordia University Chicago Cougars needing 15 points to reach 1,000 career points with just two games remaining in her collegiate career.  The West Chicago native scored 12 points, eight in the second half, on 5-for-21 shooting in a 77-42 loss for the Dominican University women's basketball team at Concordia Chicago's Geiseman Gymnasium.
 
The Cougars opened the game on 20-5 run that spanned the first quarter and the first 2:30 of the second quarter.  The Stars whittled that deficit down to ten, 27-17 with 2:44 to play in the first half, and trailed just 33-19 at the half but that was as close as the Stars would get the rest of the way.
 
Dominican was paced by Jasmyn Hardin (Cincinnati, Ohio) who logged her 12^th double-double of the season with 14 points and 11 rebounds.  Hardin shot 6-for-10 from the field and converted on both her attempts from the free throw line.
 
As a team, the Stars shot just 30-percent, 18-for-60, from the field, connecting on just two of their 20 attempts from three-point distance while the Cougars connected at a 44-percent clip from the field (30-67), going 6-for-17 from three.
 
The Stars, now 3-21 on the season, close out the 2015-2016 season on Saturday at perennial Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference (NACC) powerhouse, Wisconsin Lutheran.  Tipoff is scheduled for 4:15 p.m.