Eastern Oregon's Shaylee Nielsen drives to the basket during the quarterfinal win.
LA GRANDE, Ore. -- Eastern Oregon University women's basketball coach Anji Weissenfluh has had many memorable wins in her career, but the night she got her 200th victory will go down as one of favorites.
The Mountaineers defeated Oregon Tech in the quarterfinals of the Cascade Collegiate Conference tournament Tuesday, 67-56. Fourth seeded Eastern (19-10) advances to the semifinals with the victory.
In a classic battle of the four and five seeds, EOU and the Lady Owls remained close for much of the evening. OIT jumped out early and had its largest lead of the game six minutes into the game, 9-4. Eastern Oregon got things going and went on a 10-0 run over the next three minutes.
The Lady Owls (15-16) closed the gap to 16-15 at the 6:28 mark left in the first half. The Mountaineers then went on a 7-0 run to stretch the lead again. EOU had its largest lead of the half with 1:03 remaining 
in the opening period, 28-18. Tech closed the half on a 5-0 run to make the score 28-23 at the half.
Oregon Tech got as close as two points midway through the second half, 44-42. An Eastern Oregon 7-0 run gave EOU the cushion it needed the rest of the evening. The Mountaineers led by as many as 11 points before the end of regulation.
Eastern's Ashlee Michelson scored 13 of her game-high 23 points in the first half. The senior extended her career after shooting 10 for 14 from the field. Fellow senior Tana Stickney added 15 points. Salena Leavitt threw a team-high six assists, and Shaylee Nielsen grabbed a team-high nine rebounds.
The Mountaineers shot 44 percent from the field and 31 percent from behind the perimeter. EOU held Oregon Tech to 36 percent shooting from the field and 31 percent from behind the arc. Eastern outrebounded the Owls, 45-31.
Brittany Cherry scored 36 points on Eastern this season in the two regular season meetings. Tuesday night she scored a team-high 14 points for OIT. The junior added seven rebounds and six assists. Kelsey New chipped in 11 points for the Lady Owls.
Eastern won the rubber-match of the 2009-10 season. The teams split the regular season games, with each team winning easily on their home courts. EOU has now won eight of the last nine games with Oregon Tech.
The EOU victory set off a chain-reaction of upsets that benefitted the Mountaineers. Seventh seeded Southern Oregon stunned the second seed Warner Pacific in Portland, 68-55. Corban College, the sixth seed, won at third seeded Northwest University, 88-77. The CCC tournament re-seeds after upsets and allows the highest remaining seeds to host games.
With this guideline, Eastern Oregon will now host Corban College Friday night in the conference tournament semifinals, and top-seeded College of Idaho hosts Southern Oregon. C of I eased past eighth seeded Concordia University Tuesday. The Mountaineers swept Corban this season. EOU won at home on Jan. 16 over the Warriors, 63-52, and at Corban on Feb. 12, 80-71. Friday's semifinal contest tips off at 7:30 p.m. in Quinn Coliseum.
Weissenfluh improves to 200-87 in her career at Eastern Oregon. All 10 of her collegiate coaching years have been with the Mountaineers. One more victory will be her seventh 20-win season in her 10 year career. She holds the most wins out of any female coach in Eastern Oregon University history.