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Urrutia Nets Double-Double as Falcons Crush UAA for Ninth Straight Win
February 17, 2001

ANCHORAGE, Ak.-Stephanie Urrutia registered 15 points and had 10 rebounds as 19th-ranked Seattle Pacific University held Alaska Anchorage to the lowest opponent point total since 1992, crushing the Seawolves 62-37 in a Pacific West Conference women's basketball game Saturday night at the UAA Sports Center.

The Falcons (20-3, 15-3) need just four more wins to tie the record for consecutive victories held by the 1997 squad (13). That year, SPU advanced as far as the West Region championship game in NCAA playoffs.

Urrutia (So., Sunnyside, Wa.) assisted on a game high seven plays to go with her double-double, and Gus Balogh (Sr., Szombathely, Hungary) netted 14 points and in doing so, moved ahead of Linnea Jarvits (1994-'97) into the No. 5 spot on Seattle Pacific's career scoring chart.

Brianne Prescott (Jr., San Jose, Ca., Mitty/San Jose City College) canned a trio of treys and finished the night with 12 points. Prescott was four of nine from the field. Anchorage was led by Dana Bottoms' 12 points and 11 rebounds.

Liz Guppy (Sr., Beaverton, Or./Westview) yanked down 10 rebounds and had four blocks for the Falcons.

Seattle Pacific out rebounded the Seawolves 55-40, and connected on 38.5 percent (25 of 65) of its shots from the field to Anchorage's 19 percent (13 of 63).

SPU is currently ranked No. 2 in the West Region and is two games ahead of second place Western Washington, in the PacWest Conference. The winner of the conference and the top six teams in the region receive automatic berths to the NCAA tournament at the close of the regular season.

The Falcons play a pair of road games Thursday (Feb. 22) and Saturday (Feb. 24) nights against Saint Martin's and Central Washington before returning to Seattle to play two home contests to finish out the regular season. Tip-offs for the Saint Martin's and Central Washington games are scheduled for 5:00 both nights.

SPU:
Holme 7, Balogh 14, Guppy 4, Prescott 12, Urrutia 15, Beard, Daniel, Lukkes 4, Gustafson 6.

UAA:
Gardeline, Larrabee 5, Bottoms 12, Buchmann 2, Massey 4, Nizich 3, Carr, Gundersen 11, Wilhelm, Adams.


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