SALEM – The Southern Oregon women's basketball team secured its 20th win and dealt Corban its 20th loss with a 74-47 Cascade Conference rout Friday night at the C.E. Jeffers Sports Center.
Junior guard
Kalei Iwami erupted to score 13 in the first quarter, hitting all five of her attempts with a pair of 3-pointers and a three-point play, to give the Raiders an early 17-point lead. She finished with 15 points off the bench and sophomore forward
Kami Walk logged her seventh double-double with 16 points, 13 rebounds and three steals.
The win enabled SOU (20-4 overall, 13-3 CCC) to keep pace with the other top-four teams in the standings, which all came out victorious Friday and remained separated by just one game. The Raiders will see one of them, fourth-place Bushnell, in a pivotal contest at 3 p.m. Saturday in Eugene.
The Warriors (4-20, 3-14) dropped their fourth straight.
Senior forward
Syd'Nee Fryer – who'd missed the Raiders' past three games due to injury – was sharp in her return. She shot 6-of-10 from the field for 12 points, had four rebounds and three of SOU's 15 steals.
Mallory Heard added two 3-pointers and
Clara Robbins totaled five points and two steals.
The Raiders shot 43 percent from the field and held Corban to a 38-percent clip. The Warriors became the 15th SOU opponent to finish below 40 percent, and the third in a row.
Holly Golenor led them with 25 points on 11-of-18 shooting and 11 rebounds. Her teammates combined for seven field goals.
The Raiders have won 20-plus games in eight of their last nine seasons.