DALLAS, Texas – The Dallas Christian College women's basketball team picked up a convincing 64-46 victory on Monday evening over Southwestern Christian College out of Terrell, Texas. The Crusaders improved to 12-3 on the season and earned the win with dominate second and third quarters that saw them hold a 37-11 scoring advantage.
 
Mckayla Washington led the Crusaders with a game-high 15 points thanks to a perfect 5-for-5 effort at the free throw line. Keiarra Rivers was the other DCC player to reach double figures in points with 11. She added eight rebounds and dished a team-high four assists. Faith Salinas and Taylor Brokenberry combined for 21 rebounds with 11 and 10, respectively.
 
DCC shot 54 percent in the first quarter and were 4-for-6 at the free throw line, but only led by four (16-12), after Southwestern Christian scored eight of the final 10 points to reduce what had been a 10-point lead, 14-4, that peaked on a Naiya Brown jumper at 3:40.
 
A 10-0 run to start the first three minutes and change in the second quarter pushed the lead to 16. Leia Twine hit one of the DCC's two three-pointers to spark the run. Rivers tallied the next three points, and then Washington and Brokenberry got inside shots to cap the surge. The lead reached 19 twice, including the halftime score of 36-17.
 
In the third quarter, DCC continued to stack its lead that was highlighted by a 12-2 run with Courtnee Locke getting a jumper to make it 48-21 and 3:38 left. The team's other trey came from Ki'Onna Hilliard to open a 30-point spread at 53-23 to cap the third quarter score. The largest lead for DCC was 31 early in the fourth stanza.
 
Southwestern Christian sliced the deficit to 15 late in the game, but the game had been in-hand already.
 
The win at home was the ninth on the campaign. The team's 58 rebounds tie the third highest mark this season and is the 10^th game this year for the team to eclipse 50 rebounds. This is the fourth straight official contest to be north of that 50-rebound threshold.
 
Dallas Christian remains home the rest of the week to host the MCM Elegante New Year's Classic. They only have one game in that tournament, which will be against first-year NCCAA member Baptist Bible College on Friday at 4 p.m.
 
DCC then will spend the following week at Keene, Texas, for a couple of games in the Martin Luther King Classic. Details of that will be announced soon.
 
 "Dallas Christian educates and mentors students to be people of influence engaging in their calling to the work of Christ in the church and in the world."