Box Score

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LAS VEGAS – It was seven years ago when the Seattle Pacific Falcons last swept their non-conference women's basketball schedule.
 
Thanks to some stiff defense on Wednesday night, they're on the verge of doing it again.
 
Aubree Callen scored 18 points, and Suzanna Ohlsen added 17 as 19^th-ranked SPU rolled past Dixie State in the Las Vegas Challenge, 91-63.
 
The Falcons (8-1) return to the Orleans Arena court on Thursday at 12 noon to face Holy Names. That will be their final game of the calendar year and their final non-conference game. SPU is 7-0 in those games so far. The last perfecto outside of Great Northwest Athletic Conference play was 9-0 in 2007-08.
                        
Senior guard Callen (Jerome, Idaho) also logged three rebounds and three assists. Fellow senior guard Ohlsen (Monroe, Wash. / Monroe HS) also had three rebounds and three assists, along with three steals.
 
Sophomore guard / forward Hannah Rodrigues (Eugene, Ore.) chipped in 12 points for SPU, pushing past 200 for her career. She now has 202.

 

Head coach Julie Heisey, who was in her third year at the helm during that last non-conference sweep and now is in her 10^th, said Wednesday's defensive effort was instrumental in putting the game out of reach.
 
"I was really happy. They're very capable of scoring and they're very good at rebounding and getting a lot of points on the offensive boards," Heisey said. "We only gave up two offensive boards in the first half, and we were able to mix up defenses and control the tempo of the game. It was a close game, then all of a sudden, it was 33-18."
 
Callen and Ohlsen each contributed four points during a decisive 12-2 first-half scoring run as the Falcons (8-1) extended a 13-12 edge to 25-14.
 
Dixie State (3-5) get four straight points from Haileigh Emerine to cut the margin back to seven at 25-18. But Seattle Pacific ran off the next 10 in a row on a traditional three-point play by sophomore guard Stacey Lukasiewicz, a 3-pointer from the top of the key by senior guard Betsy Kingma, two free throws by senior forward / center Maddey Pflaumer, and a scoop shot by Ohlsen to make it 35-18.
 
It never dropped below double digits the rest of the day. The Falcons had a 54-32 lead at the half. It was their first 50-point half since scoring 52 in the second half of a 97-79 victory against Central Washington on Jan. 12, 2012 in Brougham Pavilion.
 
"Any time, you want to take away what people do best," Heisey said. "We knew we didn't want to let them drive the middle, and we knew their No. 3 (Kaylah Miller, who finished with a game-high 20 points) was a good shooter. She still got her shots. But I think we were able to take away a lot of their points on transition. We didn't allow them to get points in the paint and not get second shots."
 
SPU's final score was its highest since a 97-59 victory at Notre Dame de Namur on Dec. 18, 2012. This season's previous high mark was 84 against San Francisco State on Nov. 26.
 
The Falcons were almost perfect from the free throw line on Wednesday. They hit their first 15 on the way to a 26-of-28 mark (92.9 percent)
 
Freshman guard Jordan McPhee grabbed a career-high eight of Seattle Pacific's 43 rebounds. That beat her previous best of six, set just last Saturday in a 79-58 victory against Northwest University.
 
 
NCAA WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
Las Vegas Challenge
Wednesday, December 17, 2014
Orleans Arena / Las Vegas, Nev.
 
(No. 19) Seattle Pacific 91, Dixie State 63
 
SEATTLE PACIFIC (8-1)
Aubree Callen 6-13 5-6 18, Suzanna Ohlsen 6-11 4-4 17, Hannah Rodrigues 5-9 0-0 12, Maddey Pflaumer 3-8 3-3 8, Betsy Kingma 3-8 0-0 9, Molly Grager 2-3 2-2 6, Jordan McPhee 2-5 2-2 6, Rachel Shim 0-2 5-6 5, Stacey Lukasiewicz 1-2 1-1 3, Lindsay Lee 0-0 2-2 2, Courtney Hollander 1-3 0-0 2, Erica Pagano 0-2 2-2 2, Caitlin Heinly 0-0-0 0. Totals 29-66 26-28 91.
 
DIXIE STATE (3-5)
Kaylah Miller 7-11 2-3 20, Nishiki Washington 4-7 0-1 8, Taylor Maynes 3-5 1-4 7, Brianna Jessop 2-2 2-2 6, Haileigh Emerine 3-6 0-0 6, Chermayne Moore 1-11 2-2 4, Taylor Mann 1-3 2-5 4, Gabrielle Cabanero 0-3 2-2 2, Ashlee Burge 1-1 0-0 2, Lesie Tademy 1-6 0-0 2, Sandria Bolden 0-1 1-2 1, Tianna Dougher 0-0 1-2 1, Shantel Roberts 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 23-56 13-23 63.
 
Seattle Pacific     54           37           -- 91
Dixie State           32           31           -- 63
 
3-point goals – SPU 7-17 (Kingma 3-7, Rodrigues 2-2, Ohlsen 1-3, Callen 1-2, Hollander 0-1, Pagano 0-1, McPHee 0-1), Dixie 4-17 (Miller 4-6, Maynes 0-1, Moore 0-5, Cabanero 0-3, Tademy 0-1, Bolden 0-1).  Fouled out – SPU: Pflaumer. Rebounds – SPU 43 (McPhee 6), Dixie 34 (Jessop 5, Maynes 5, Mann 5). Assists – SPU 17 (Ohlsen 3, Callen 3, Lukasiewicz 3), Dixie 12 (Maynes 4). Turnovers – SPU 18, Dixie 26. Total fouls – SPU 21, Dixie 24. Technical fouls – None. Attendance – 200.
 
Records – Seattle Pacific 8-1. Dixie State 3-5.
 
Next game – Seattle Pacific vs. Holy Names (at Las Vegas Challenge), Thursday, 12:00 noon.