EDMONTON – A stifling defensive performance by the University of Calgary Dinos women's basketball team finished with a 75-21 win over MacEwan Saturday afternoon at the David Atkinson Gymnasium.

Calgary frustrated MacEwan all day long, holding them off the scoreboard for the first 9:59 of this game. In fact, the Dinos conceded just two points in both the first and fourth quarters and the 21 points allowed fewest allowed by the Scarlet & Gold in a conference game since 1973.

The Dinos scored 42 points off 41 turnovers in Saturday's performance.
  
Unity Obasuyi and Sarah Burnell led the Griffins with five points each. Burnell recorded a season-high eight rebounds, as MacEwan shot just 16.3% (7-of-43) in the loss, dropping to 0-14 this season.
 
Kourtney Oss led Calgary with 25 points, 11 rebounds, three assists and three steals, while Storie Pollyanna (12 points) Amelie Collin (11 points) and Emma Yarwood (11 points) all scored in double figures.

Collin also had seven of Calgary's 20 steals in this one, bringing her career total to 291 - second most in Canada West history.

Yarwood and Storie also chipped in with seven and five rebounds. 

Calgary scored the first 13 points of the game before Samantha Hickey's bucket in the dying seconds of the opening quarter made it 13-2. From there, though, Calgary went on a 23-0 run to start the second quarter and blew the game wide open.
 
Burnell grabbed an offensive rebound and put back a bucket to make it 36-5, but the Griffins were ice-cold shooting in the first half, hitting just two shots from the field, and were outscored 25-5 in the second quarter.
MacEwan started to find some form of rhythm offensively in the third quarter, as they were outscored 18-12, but turnovers continued to plague them throughout the four quarters.
 
The Griffins were outscored 18-2 in fast break points, and were dominated in the paint 48-4, as the Dinos length and size up front gave MacEwan everything they could handle and more.
 
In Friday's loss to Calgary, the Griffins hung with Dinos, holding a 35-33 lead early in the third quarter, before Calgary was able to take over in the fourth — but MacEwan didn't have any answers for Calgary's relentless defence in Saturday's loss.
 
Despite the lopsided result on the scoreboard, the Dinos connected on just one three-pointer in this one, going 1-13 from behind the arc.
 
Calgary remains on the road next weekend, traveling to Saskatchewan for the latest top-10 showdown. The two-game weekend series starts Friday at 5 p.m. MT.

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