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Cyclone women wallop North Dakota

Bridget Carleton

AMES — An eight-point surge to start the game and an 11-0 run to end the opening quarter was the start the Cyclones needed to finish this one early.

The Iowa State women’s basketball team scored 26 points in both the first and second quarters and led from wire-to-wire in an 87-35 drubbing of North Dakota on Sunday at Hilton Coliseum.

Bridget Carleton scored a game-high 18 points to lead four players in double figures for the Cyclones (7-2), who bounced back from a narrow loss to in-state rival Iowa in convincing fashion. Ashley Joens scored 11 points in limited minutes because of a knee injury, while reserves Ines Nezerwa (11 points) and Kristin Scott (10 points and a team-high eight rebounds) helped contribute to the victory.

Eleven of the 12 Cyclones saw at least 10 minutes of playing time and scored.

“It’s fun to get everyone into the game,” said Iowa State head coach Bill Fennelly. “We don’t have many more of those, if any, left on the schedule, so to get everyone a lot of minutes and everyone get 6-8 shots is nice and balanced. It’s nice for kids to have that moment here, especially going into finals week.”

Carleton tallied seven rebounds and a career-high seven steals, helping the Cyclones turn 22 North Dakota turnovers into 26 points.

“Credit Iowa State, they trapped us early a couple times and we got a little hesitant because we turned it over a couple times,” said UND head coach Travis Brewster. “We’ve got to get in the gym and shoot the ball a lot and see it go through the hoop.”

The Fighting Hawks (2-7) shot just 25 percent (15-for-60) from the field for the game, going 3-for-11 in the first quarter and 2-for-14 in the second. Julia Fleecs scored a career-best nine points off the bench for UND.

Joens sat the entire second half for Iowa State because of her team’s comfortable 52-13 lead and some nagging knee pain Fennelly hopes to alleviate before next Sunday’s home game against No. 21 Drake.

The Cyclones are 6-0 at home, 0-2 on the road and 1-0 on neutral courts so far this season. Last year’s 7-8 home mark still hangs over the ISU head coach and his players.

“Last year was really an odd year of we did not play well at home,” Fennelly said. “We’ve always taken great pride in playing here. … It’s very important to this group. We’ve talked about it at length. It’s probably the first thing we addressed when we got together in August that we wanted to be a team that we wanted to be a team like we used to be that was worthy of the support of our fans and that other teams didn’t want to come here.

“Hopefully we’re making progress, we’ve played really well here, but obviously Drake is probably the best team that’s come into our building this year.”

North Dakota wasn’t. The Fighting Hawks shot just 3-for-24 from 3-point range, got outrebounded 50-37 and totaled just three assists.

Iowa State’s home game next Sunday against Drake tips off at noon and will be televised by Cyclones.TV. Iowa entertains Northern Iowa in at 2 p.m. game in Iowa City.

IOWA ST. 87, NORTH DAKOTA 35

At Ames

N. DAKOTA (2-7) — Morton 0-5 0-0 0, Dooley 1-2 0-2 2, Reinke 0-5 0-0 0, Strand 2-5 0-0 4, Klabo 3-5 0-0 6, J. Jarnot 1-8 0-0 3, Dailey 2-11 0-0 5, Leet 0-3 0-0 0, Orth 0-5 0-0 0, A. Jarnot 2-4 0-0 4, Fleecs 3-6 2-3 9, Gordon 1-1 0-0 2. TOTALS 15-60 2-5 35.

IOWA ST. (7-2) — Wise 2-6 0-0 4, Carleton 6-9 3-4 18, Joens 4-7 1-2 11, Burkhall 4-6 1-1 9, Middleton 1-6 1-1 3, Johnson 2-4 0-0 5, Washington 1-1 0-0 2, Thurmon 2-5 2-2 6, Camber 3-8 0-0 8, Mills 0-1 0-0 0, Nezerwa 3-6 5-6 11, Scott 3-8 3-5 10. TOTALS 31-67 16-21 87.

N. DAKOTA 9 4 13 9 — 35

IOWA ST. 26 26 22 13 — 87

3-Point Goals–North Dakota 3-24 (Fleecs 1-2, J. Jarnot 1-4, Dailey 1-5, Orth 0-1, A. Jarnot 0-2, Leet 0-2, Reinke 0-2, Morton 0-3, Strand 0-3), ISU 9-25 (Carleton 3-5, Joens 2-5, Camber 2-6, Johnson 1-2, Scott 1-3, Wise 0-2, Middleton 0-2). Rebounds–North Dakota 37 (Klabo 6), ISU 50 (Scott 8). Assists–North Dakota 3 (A. Jarnot 3), ISU 19 (Washington 4). Total Fouls–North Dakota 18, Iowa St. 10. Fouled Out–none. A–9,701.

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