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MONMOUTH, Ore. – Those shots that weren't going in two nights ago in Portland found the bottom of the net on Saturday in Monmouth.

 

Jordan McPhee poured in 20 points, Lindsay Lee added a career-high 17, and Courtney Hollander logged her third double-double of the season as 13^th-ranked Seattle Pacific bolted to a 16-0 lead and never looked back in an 87-52 Great Northwest Athletic Conference women's basketball rout of previously undefeated Western Oregon.
 
The Falcons (6-1, 1-1 GNAC) bounced back from Thursday's 59-57 loss at Concordia, having shot just 30.6 percent from the field in that one.
 
"I pretty much praised their effort on Thursday," head coach Julie Heisey said. "We had good shots, we played good defense and held (Concordia) to 59 points at their place – we just couldn't score."
 
 

In contrast, Saturday's shooting performance was SPU's second-best of the season at 48.3 percent (29 of 60). Senior guard McPhee (Normandy Park, Wash. / Mount Rainier HS) had much to do with that, draining 9 of 12. Senior guard Lee (Spokane, Wash. / Lewis & Clark HS) buried 6 of 12, with 5 of 9 from behind the 3-point arc. On Thursday, SPU had just two field goals as a team from downtown.
 
"In some ways, you have to have a short-term memory," Heisey said. "You just have to go in with the same defensive effort and be confident."
 
That defense kept Western Oregon (5-1, 1-1 GNAC) scoreless for nearly the first seven minutes of the game, while the offense put 16 points on the board. That opening run included a pair of 3-pointers from Lee, four points each from McPhee and senior guard Rachel Shim, and one free throw apiece from Julia Haining and Hailee Bennett.
 
The Wolves finally got on the board with 3:16 to go in the opening quarter after missing their first seven shots. But they never got the margin back into the single-digit range, was SPU was up 23-6 at the end of the first quarter and 45-18 at halftime.
 
"I was just happy that defensively we did such a good job," Heisey said of the opening 20 minutes. "They have a lot of good shooters, and they're hard to guard. And we kept them off the line."
 
Indeed, while the Falcons hit 21 of 26 free throws for the game, Western Oregon went just four times, hitting only one.
 
Taken together, it proved Heisey correct when she said on Thursday that her team would have much better nights.
 
"It has to hurt, but we learned from it," she said. "Sometimes, you think about the five things you did wrong, and forget about the 15 things you did right.
 
"It's just nice that we were able to bounce back."
 
BY THE NUMBERS
-- Hollander's double-double was 12 points and 12 rebounds. Her previous two this season were 11 and 11 against Humboldt State, 10 and 10 against Fresno Pacific. She now has 17 career double-doubles.
-- Lee now has two career highs in just 11 days. Her previous one was 16 points in a 78-52 victory against Biola on Nov. 22.
-- Senior forward Erica Pagano scored 10 points to reach exactly 400 for her career.
-- McPhee's 20 points pushed her past the 800 mark. She now has 811. Hollander tallied her 800^th on Thursday at Concordia, and now has 812.
-- Shim tied her career high with five assists.
 
UP NEXT
The Falcons have most of this coming week off for academic finals. They will return to action next Saturday at 2:00 p.m. in Brougham Pavilion with a GNAC game against Saint Martin's.

 
NCAA WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
Saturday, Dec. 2, 2017
New P.E. Building / Monmouth, Ore.
 
(No. 13) Seattle Pacific 87, Western Oregon 52
 
SEATTLE PACIFIC (6-1, 1-1 GNAC)
Jordan McPhee 9-12 0-0 20, Lindsay Lee 6-12 0-0 17, Courtney Hollander 3-9 5-6 12, Erica Pagano 3-5 4-4 10, Rachel Shim 3-5 2-2 8, Julia Haining 2-4 3-4 7, Carly Rataushk 3-5 1-2 7, Hailee Bennett 0-2 4-6 4, Jaylee Albert 0-3 2-2 2, Jane Grisley 0-1 0-0 0, Riley Evans 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 29-60 21-26 87.
 
WESTERN OREGON (5-1, 1-1 GNAC)
Ssavannag Heugly 5-15 0-0 10, Sydney Azorr 4-8 0-0 10, Kaylie Boschma 4-11 0-1 8, Kennedy Corrigan 3-3 1-3 8, Keyonna Jones 2-5 0-0 6, Jasmine Miller 2-4 0-0 4, Maddy Page 1-2 0-0 2, Taisha Thomas 1-3 0-0 2, Shelby Snook 1-7 0-0 2, Natalie DeLonge 0-3 0-0 0, Olivia Denton 0-4 0-0 0. Totals 23-65 1-4 52.
 
Seattle Pacific     23           22           23           19           -- 87
Western Oregon    6           12           21           13           -- 52
 
3-point goals – SPU 8-21 (Lee 5-9; McPhee 2-3; Hollander 1-2; Bennett 0-1; Albert 0-2; Evans 0-2; Shim 0-1; Pagano 0-1), WOU. 5-13 (Jones 2-2; Azorr 2-2; Corrigan 1-1; Snook 0-4; Denton 0-1; Boschma 0-3). Fouled out – None. Rebounds – SPU 48 (Hollander 12), WOU 31 (Boschma 7). Assists – SPU 16 (Shim 5), WOU 9 (Snook 3). Turnovers – SPU 15, WOU 18. Total fouls – SPU 15, WOU 20. Technical fouls – None.. Attendance – 171
 
Next game
Saint Martin's at Seattle Pacific
Saturday, Dec. 9        2:00 p.m.
Brougham Pavilion