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Women's Basketball
vs Western Colorado (EXHIBITION)
Saturday, January 13
San Diego
7:00 PM PT
University of Utah
56
at
47
San Diego St
Women's Hoops Undefeated In MWC Play
1/13/2001 12:00 AM | Women's Basketball
Jan. 13, 2001
San Diego, Calif. - The University of Utah women's basketball team is still undefeated in MWC play, making a second-half comeback and defeating the San Diego State Aztecs, 56-47, on Sat., Jan. 13 at Cox Arena in San Diego, Calif. The Utes improve to 14-2 overall, 3-0 in the Mountain West Conference. San Diego State drops to 9-6 overall, 1-1 in MWC play.
Down at the break, 22-20, Utah managed to make a second-half comeback and win its third-straight Mountain West Conference match-up on the road. The Utes took advantage of points off turnovers, out-scoring the Aztecs, 15-6. Utah edged San Diego State 18-10, off points in the paint and notched 12 assists, 12 steals and three blocks.
Junior Lauren Beckman racked up a season high 19 points and tied a career-high 14 rebounds in a career-high 38 minutes of play to lead the Utes over the Aztecs. Beckman went 6-of-14 from the field, 7-of-8 from the free-throw line and added four assists, three steals and one block, respectively. Teammate Lindsay Herbert tallied 15 points, two blocks and two steals and freshman Kelsy Stireman posted 10 points. Herbert shot 5-of-10 from the field, 2-of-4 from behind the arc and 3-of-4 from the free-throw line. Stireman went 3-of-6 from the field and 4-of-5 from the free-throw line. Utah went 17-of-46 (37 percent) from the field, 2-of-8 (25 percent) from 3-point range and 83 percent (20-of-24) from the free-throw line.
Claire Swinbank and Jamey Cox combined for 20 of the Aztecs 47 points. Swinbank shot 4-of-11 from the field and tallied seven rebounds, while Cox went 5-of-9 from the field. The Aztecs shot 41 percent (19-of-46) from the field, 14 percent (1-of-7) from the 3-point line and 62 percent (8-of-13) from the free-throw line.
"San Diego State is very much an improved team this season," said Head Coach Elaine Elliott. "This was such a physical game. Sometimes we wait and see what its going to take and we didn't have that to start the game. I give credit to San Diego State, they were very good defensively, physically, they were motivated and it was a very tough game. I think the difference was that Beckman's game was great. She rose to the occasion of the physical play and that was what we needed tonight," said Elliott.
AFTER THIS: Utah hosts Colorado State on Thurs., Jan. 18, at 7:00 p.m. and Wyoming on Sat., Jan. 20, at 3:00 p.m. Utah will face Brigham Young at home on Sat., Jan. 27 at 3:07 p.m. On Sat., Feb. 3, the Utes will travel to Colorado Springs, Colo., to match-up with the Air Force Falcons at 2:00 p.m. Utah will host San Diego State on Thurs., Feb. 8, at 7:00 p.m. and UNLV on Sat., Feb. 10, at 3:00 p.m.
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