SEATTLE – Safiyyah Yasin scored 26 points on her way to MVP honors and fellow senior guard Yazmeen Goo added 13 points and three assists Saturday to power top-seeded Alaska Anchorage to an 89-68 victory over third-seeded Western Washington in the title game of the Great Northwest Athletic Conference Women's Basketball Championships at Royal Brougham Pavilion.

The nationally 5th-ranked Seawolves (31-2) also got a career-high-tying 11 points from reserve point guard Stephanie Jackson as they claimed their sixth GNAC postseason title in 10 years and earned the league's automatic NCAA Tournament bid.

Ranked No. 7 in the most recent NCAA Div. II West Region standings, the Vikings (22-9) were led by 14 points from forward Kelsey Rogers but were hurt by 23 turnovers. WWU will likely still earn an at-large bid to next week's NCAA West Regional Championships despite the loss.

"I thought in the first half we did a really good job of executing our defensive game plan, and we hit some big shots," said UAA's Ryan McCarthy, whose team shot a season-high .589 (33 of 56) from the field, including 8 of 17 from long range. "It was just kind of our night offensively. We hit some shots where it would be a busted play and we'd throw up a left-handed hook shot and it would go in for us. It was just one of those nights. I'm really, really pleased with everyone's performance tonight, up and down the lineup."

After splitting seven-point decisions with WWU during the regular season, UAA led from start to finish in the rubber match, taking control with a 10-0 run midway through the first quarter. Coming off a career-high 31 points in Friday's 79-77 semifinal win over Central Washington, Yasin connected on 6 of 8 shots in the opening 20 minutes as the Seawolves took a 43-27 lead into the locker room.

The Vikings sliced their deficit to 54-46 with 3:20 left the third quarter, but junior forward Sala Langi scored eight of her 10 points in the period and the Seawolves stretched to a 66-51 lead with 10 minutes remaining.

WWU never got closer in the fourth as UAA stretched its largest lead to 26 points on two occasions.

A first-team all-conference performer, Yasin finished 9 of 13 from the floor (2-2 3FG) and 6 of 7 at the foul stripe to account for her second-most points as a Seawolf.

"I was able to get into the lane and everything felt really smooth tonight," Yasin said in the postgame press conference.

Goo and Langi connected on an identical 5-of-8 clip from the field, while Jackson added three assists and two steals. Junior center Tennae Voliva finished with four points, three rebounds, two assists and five steals, coming one swipe shy of tying the tournament record.

Ranked No. 2 in the West Region, the Seawolves will learn their NCAA Tournament opponent Sunday at 6 p.m. AST when the national field is announced at ncaa.com.