NAMPA, Idaho - The Northwest Nazarene University women's basketball team held Western Oregon to just two second-half field goals as the Crusaders defeated the Wolves 70-46 in a Great Northwest Athletic Conference game tonight at the Johnson Sports Center in Nampa.
Game Boxscore
Trailing by three points late in the first half, Northwest Nazarene outscored Western Oregon 46-3 over the next 17 minutes.
NNU scored the final four points of the first half to go ahead 30-29 at the break, then started the second half with a 15-0 run before a three-pointer by WOU's Jamie Richardson momentarily stopped the bleeding.
The Crusaders, however, then ran off 27 more points to go ahead 72-32 inside the four-minute mark.
Lindsay Brady led the second-half onslaught scoring 12 of her game-high 16 points in the final 20 minutes. NNU was also led by Kristin Hein with 14 points and Kat Schulte to Buhne with 13 points.
Katie Torland had 11 points and 12 rebounds for WOU, while Shayla Corder had 10, including six of the Wolves' 11 second-half points when it was outscored 46-11. WOU was just two of 18 in the period, while the Crusaders made 17 of 28.
For the game, NNU had a 40-31 rebound advantage and 15 fewer turnovers (31-16). Hein had nine rebounds, five at the offensive end, and Brady had five of her team's 21 steals.