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Dec 1- Portland and Gonzaga were both in action on Friday night Gonzaga topped Portland State 69-60, as Ashley Anderson, Ashley Burke, and Shannon Mathews combined to score 48 points
lt;bgt;Pictured:lt;/bgt;lt;igt; Shannon Mathews scored a season-high 16 points in the Zags' win over Portland State.lt;/igt; lt;pgt; Dec 1- Portland and Gonzaga were both in action on Friday night. Gonzaga topped Portland State 69-60, as Ashley Anderson, Ashley Burke, and Shannon Mathews combined to score 48 points. Portland saw their three-game winning streak come to an end with a 68-6 loss to Montana State, despite Khalila O'Rielly-Williams recording her first double-double of the season. lt;pgt; lt;bgt;Gonzaga 69, Portland State 60lt;/bgt;lt;brgt; Ashley Anderson, Ashley Burke and Shannon Mathews combined for 48 points in Gonzaga University women's basketball team's 69-60 victory over Portland State University on Friday night. lt;pgt; The Bulldogs (4-) were led by Burke with a game-high 17 points while Anderson led the defensive game with 1 points and 1 defensive rebounds, 14 total boards, for her first double-double of the season. Guards Raeanna Jewell, Shannon Mathews and Rachel Kane each marked four assists for Gonzaga. lt;pgt; The Vikings (1-6) were led by Sarah Hedgepeth with 14 points and ten rebounds, followed by Carrie Mitchell with 11 and Jane Gowans with 10. lt;pgt; Portland State took an early lead over Gonzaga with a 0- run to start the game. The Bulldogs retaliated with a 19-6 run to bring the game within two at 6-4 with 4:0 in the first half. The Vikings kept the lead going into the second half with a score of 36-30 at the half. lt;pgt; Gonzaga narrowed the margin, tying the score 4-all at the 1:14 minute mark. The teams would exchange the lead several times until the Bulldogs pulled away with the lead from a jump shot by Anderson with :6 on the clock for a 63-60 advantage. Anderson scored four of the next six free throws for the final score, 69-60. lt;pgt; Gonzaga shot 39.3 per cent from the field (4-61) while Portland State shot 38.8 per cent (6-66). The Bulldogs went 40 per cent from beyond the arc (6-1) while the Vikings shot only 18 per cent (-11). lt;pgt; lt;bgt;Montana State 68, Portland 6lt;/bgt;lt;brgt; The Portland Pilots had their three-game winning streak snapped as the Montana State Bobcats hit 10 three-pointers en route to a 68-6 victory at the Chiles Center on Friday night. Bobcat forward Sheila Hutchison went -of-6 from downtown and finished with points. Pilot senior forward Khalila O146;Rielly-Williams notched her first double-double of the season, finishing with points and 1 rebounds. lt;pgt; The Pilots held a 9-4 lead at the break, despite MSU point guard Jaimey Tanner146;s four first half three-pointers. O146;Rielly-Williams came off the Pilot bench to score nine first half points. lt;pgt; There were four ties and three lead changes in a tight first 0 minutes. The Pilots grabbed a 4- edge on a pair of O146;Rielly-Williams free-throws at the 3:18 mark. She would go to the stripe four more times before the first half buzzer, making 3-of-4 to give Portland the five-point advantage. lt;pgt; Tanner cooled off in the second half, but Portland had no answer for Hutchison who nailed all five of her attempts from long range. Hutchison scored 3 of her game-high in the second half. The Bobcats finished 10-of- from beyond the arc as a team, while Portland could muster just five makes in 1 attempts.Despite holding a 39-38 rebounding edge, MSU seemed to get key rebounds and loose balls down the stretch, scoring 13 second chance points after the break. lt;pgt; The Bobcats took a 43-4 lead on a pair of Nina Sanford free-throws with 13:06 remaining, and never looked back. Hutchinson146;s final trey at 3: gave the Bobcats a double-digit lead with 3: remaining. Kati Burrows146; layup with under a minute to play was the dagger as MSU stole a road win from the Pilots. lt;pgt; Portland shot 36. percent (3-63) from the field, 7 percent (4-1) from three-point land and connected on only 63 percent (1-19) of their free-throw attempts. O146;Rielly-Williams was active for the Pilots, going to the stripe 1 times and making 10 free-throws. She was the only player in double figures for Portland. lt;pgt; Ashlee Orndorff finished with eight points and four rebounds, as she was relegated to minutes of action because of foul trouble. Freshman forward Rene146;e Evans gave an inspired performance off the bench, grabbing a career-high seven rebounds in 4 minutes. lt;pgt; Burrows finished with 14 points and eight boards for the Bobcats, while 146;7148; guard Jana Smith snagged a career-high 11 rebounds. Tanner finished the night with 1 points, but Hutchinson was the story with a 9-for-14 shooting performance.MSU shot 4 percent (-60) from the floor and 46 percent (10-) from beyond the arc, getting many open looks late in the game. lt;Pgt;
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