Grand Canyon 87, San Diego Christian 44
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PHOENIX - (GCU Media Relations) Grand Canyon continued its strong finish to the non-conference season with an 87-44 victory over San Diego Christian (5-10) at GCU Arena, Saturday.
The Lopes (6-7) have won four of their last five games, with the lone loss coming to nationally-ranked Louisville. GCU begins Western Athletic Conference play Jan. 10 at Bakersfield.
Against the Hawks, Grand Canyon led from start to finish. The final margin of 43 points was the largest lead of the game. The Lopes had 13 players score, led by Jessica Gajewski, who tied a career-high with 18 points. Casey Rarrick had 14 and August Touchard scored 13. Courtney Hayes had a career-best 11 rebounds to go with seven assists, four points and three steals. Hayes had all of her points, eight rebounds and six assists in the second half. Twelve different players had at least one rebound.
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UC Riverside 81, Missouri-Kansas City 38
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RIVERSIDE, Calif. - (UMKC Media Relations) The Missouri-Kansas City women’s basketball team fell in its opening game of 2015, 81-38 to UC Riverside on Saturday afternoon at the Student Recreation Center.
The loss drops UMKC to 2-12 on the season, while UC Riverside improves to 9-5 this year.
Calli White lead the ‘Roos with a season-high 20 points on 6-of-12 shooting from the field, including 2-of-5 from three-point range, and a perfect 6-of-6 at the line, while Lexis Hardiek also notched a season-high, scoring eight points on 3-of-6 shooting, including 2-of-3 from long range.
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Cal State Northridge 86, Seattle U 63
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SEATTLE - (SU Media Relations) Seattle University women’s basketball (3-11) trailed by double digits early and despite a late first half run, could not overcome the deficit as CSU Northridge (10-4) came away with a 86-63 win in non-conference action.
“They are a great three-point shooting team and our turnovers really hurt us early, so they took advantage of that,” said head coach Joan Bonvicini. “We weren’t able to really get on track until late in the first half and, unfortunately, we were playing catch up from there.”
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Cal Poly 71, Bakersfield 66
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SAN LUIS OBISBO, Calif. - (CSUB Media Relations) Tyonna Outland recorded her 24th 20+ scoring game of her career with 22 points, but Cal Poly (5-7) defeated CSU Bakersfield (10-4) 69-64 Saturday afternoon. Outland’s 20+ total is the most of any active Western Athletic Conference women’s basketball player.
‘Runner point guard Alyssa Shannon recorded her fourth consecutive double-digit scoring game with 14 points. Brooklynn Hinkens added 12 for the ‘Runners.