FAIRBANKS ? Senior Dasha Basova scored all 22 of her points in the first half and set a school record for three-point accuracy Saturday to power the 2nd-ranked Alaska Anchorage women's basketball team to a 74-46 blowout of Alaska Fairbanks at the Patty Center.
Junior guard Kiki Taylor had 11 points, seven rebounds and five assists for the Seawolves (16-1, 3-0 GNAC), who won their 14th straight.
Forward Nicole Bozek led UAF (5-8, 0-4) with 10 points and nine rebounds, but UAA held the Nanooks to 26.7 percent shooting and forced 20 turnovers.
After Taylor started the game with a short jumper, Basova drained three-pointers on the next five Seawolf possessions, and Taylor followed with three from the corner to make it 20-4 after just four minutes.
Basova nailed another trey before the end of the half and added a pair of interior buckets as UAA took a 39-22 lead into the locker room.
The 6-2 forward from Moscow, Russia, didn't take a shot in the second half as UAA also got contributions from senior guard Jackie Thiel (9 pts, 3-6 3FG), senior center Rebecca Kielpinski (9 pts, 4-6 FG, 7 rebounds, 2 blocks) and junior forward Nicci Miller (6 rebounds, 4 assists).
The 28-point margin of victory was UAA's second-biggest over UAF at the Patty Center, trailing only a 103-64 win on Jan. 21, 1995.
Basova's 6-for-6 three-point accuracy was the best ever for a Seawolf attempting six or fewer in a game. Former teammate Maria Nilsson went 6-for-7 in the 2006 Carrs/Safeway Great Alaska Shootout against UC Riverside.
UAA shot a season-best 11 of 18 (.611) from three-point range, tying for the ninth-most makes in program history.
As for Kielpinski, the two-time Great Northwest Athletic Conference Player of the Year surpassed a few more career milestones in the victory, including breaking the GNAC mark for minutes played (3,266) and tying the league record for most starts (108, Danielle Dwello, NW Nazarene, 2003-07). Kielpinski also dished a pair of assists to move into 10th place (232) on UAA's career list.
The 3-0 GNAC start ties last year's team for the best in UAA's eight years of league membership.
Up next, the Seawolves can tie the school record for consecutive victories ? 15 by the 1987-88 squad ? when they make their GNAC home debut Thursday against Northwest Nazarene (10-5, 3-1). That game tips off at 7 p.m. at the Wells Fargo Sports Complex.
