Tigers Make it Five Straight with Win over Trinity

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GREENCASTLE, IND. - The 17th-ranked DePauw women's basketball team scored a season-high 39 points in the first half on the way to a 16-point lead at the break and held on for a 76-59 Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference win over visiting Trinity.

The Tigers (11-3, 6-1) remained in first place in the SCAC with their fifth straight win. Trinity fell to 10-3 overall and 4-2 in the conference and had their five-game wins streak snapped.

DePauw shot 58 percent from the floor in the first half as Meredith Miles scored 14 points and grabbed six boards over the first 20 minutes. The Tigers scored the game's first six points and led by as many as 21 at 36-15 with 3:43 left.

After Trinity opened the second half with a basket to close the margin to 39-25, DePauw scored the next nine points on two three-pointers from Sarah MacKay and one from Lindsey Rush. The lead reached its peak of 25 at 53-28 on a pair of Lindsey Blackman free throws with 15:21 left.

Trinity battled back with a 13-2 run over a 4:40 stretch to close the gap to 55-41 with 10:03 remaining. The visitors got to within 10 points in the final three minutes, but couldn't get the margin into single digits.

"Trinity really came back strong in the second half and we were lucky to have built the lead we did early in the game," DePauw coach Kris Huffman said.

Rush paced the Tigers with 21 points followed by MacKay and Miles with 16 apiece. Miles finished with nine rebounds as DePauw held a 39-29 advantage on the boards. Megan Selmon paced Trinity with 18 points, while Mollie Fitzgerald added 12.

DePauw hosts Southwestern University on Sunday at 2 p.m. The Pirates (5-8, 3-3) were 84-61 winners over Rose-Hulman last night.