ANCHORAGE (Feb. 8) – Freshman forward Ashlyn Rean had career highs of 22 points and 12 rebounds as the Alaska Anchorage women's basketball team rode a huge second-quarter surge to a 93-50 blowout of Alaska Fairbanks on Saturday at the Alaska Airlines Center.

Ranked No. 25 in both NCAA Div. II national polls, the Seawolves (20-3, 11-1 Great Northwest Athletic Conference) also got double-doubles from senior center Tori Hollingshead (19 points/10 rebounds) and senior point guard Emilia Long (13 points/10 assists) as they outshot the visitors .527 to .296 and outrebounded them 44-27.

The Nanooks (6-14, 1-11) were led by 12 points apiece from guard Emily Freeman and Tristian Martin as they lost for the 33rd time in the last 34 meetings against the Seawolves.

"We came out of the gates a little slow, but we made the proper adjustments and got back into our game plan in the second quarter," said UAA head coach Ryan McCarthy, whose team tied its program record against a fellow D-II opponent with 31 points in that quarter.

Freeman knocked down one of four first-quarter three-pointers for UAF to give her team a 13-10 lead at the 3:35 mark, before Long and Hollingshead scored twice each to reestablish a 17-16 advantage at the break.

Leading just 27-23 with four minutes left in the half, the Seawolves got a three-pointer from junior guard Elaina Mack to spark a huge surge. UAA scored on 10 straight possessions over the final 3:45, capping the rally with a feed from Mack to Hedda Koehne for a layup that made it 48-26 just before the buzzer.

Rean – a 6-2 forward from Rangiora, New Zealand – earned her second double-double on 9-of-13 shooting, along with two assists, two blocks and four steals.

Hollingshead shot 9 of 14 from the field, adding three assists, a career-high-tying five steals and three blocks. The Orem, Utah, native recorded her fifth double-double of the season and the eighth her career.

Meanwhile, Long shot 6 of 12 and tied her career high from last year at Cal Poly Humboldt with 10 assists, without committing a turnover. The NCAA Div. II steals leader added four more swipes to move within four of Kiki Robertson's single-season UAA- and GNAC-record 109 steals in 2016-17.

Mack finished with 15 points and three steals, Koehne had eight points and three blocks, and Jazzpher Evans chipped in seven points and five assists.

UAA – which became the first team to clinch a GNAC Tournament bid when Simon Fraser lost earlier Saturday – returns to the road next week to face Western Washington and Simon Fraser. Find links to live video and stats for both games at GoSeawolves.com.

NOTES: The Seawolves clinched the 18th 20-win season in program history (47 seasons) … UAA will continue its string of playing in every GNAC Tournament since the event started in 2011 … Rean broke into the top 10 on UAA's freshman scoring list, now with 231 points, as well as into the top 5 in blocks with 19; with 49 steals, she needs just one more to reach the top 5 on that rookie list.