REDLANDS, Calif. – The University of Redlands women's basketball team (15-5, 8-4) got back in the win column as they defeated the University of La Verne 57-48 in a game where both teams shot in the 30 percent range.
The Bulldogs had a great first quarter. Leila Hosn had two of her six points with a jumper in the paint with 34 seconds remaining as Redlands took a 20-9 lead into the second quarter.
Olivia McIntyre found Aliyah Anderson from behind the arc just over a minute after the initial inbound in the second. Teagan McIlroy then assisted McIntyre on a layup that helped keep the Bulldogs in front by double figures with 6:40 to play.
La Verne, however, would score 10 of the next 12 points as they closed to within two, 27-25, with 1:52 remaining. Redlands defense, though, clamped down and held them scoreless the rest of the half while Hosn made jump in the final 12 seconds to go into the break up by four, 29-25.
Across five minutes of play in the third, the Bulldogs had failed to score, but their defense again did a good job, holding the Leopards to only six points as they were only trailing by two, 31-29.
AJ Wick would then score four points during a 6-0 run that pushed them back into the lead, 35-31. A late La Verne rally had the advantage at only one, 37-36, after 30 minutes.
The Leopards scored first in the fourth which gave them the lead before McIlroy came right back and reclaimed the lead which they would hold the remainder of the game.
The lead ballooned to as many as 10, 50-40, at the 3:31 mark while they managed to do enough at the line, 5-of-8, the rest of the way to seal the win.
Hosn and Wick were the lone Bulldogs in double figures with 12 and 10 points each. McIlroy and Wick collected 10 and 11 rebounds.
The Bulldogs started and closed the game strong, outscoring the Leopards by 19 in the first and third quarters while they were outscored by 10 in the middle two.
Redlands has a bye this Saturday before traveling to Pasadena for a matchup with California Institute of Technology on Feb. 11 at 7 p.m.
