Women's Basketball Can't Stop No. 10 Bruins
January 27, 2000 | Women's Basketball
Jan. 27, 2000
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Maylana Martin scored 16 points and four teammates finished in double figures as No. 10 UCLA overcame a slow start to defeat Oregon State 83-60 on Thursday night, its seventh consecutive victory.
LaCresha Flannigan and Carly Funicello each had 11 points off the bench while Erica Gomez and Marie Philman added 10 each for the Bruins (12-4, 6-0 Pac-10).
Reda Petraitis scored 15 points, Chassie Wiersma 13 and Felicia Ragland 10 for the Beavers (7-11, 3-3), who have lost their last eight games against UCLA and trail the series 24-10.
Leading 41-37 at the intermission, the Bruins put the game away with 9-0 and 8-0 second-half runs. Martin began the first with a three-point play and another basket, and Philman netted the next two baskets. Flannigan, Funicello and Martin had baskets during the second run, while Nicole Kaczmarksi sank two free throws.
Oregon State scored the game's first six points and led by as many as seven.
UCLA took the lead for the first time at 19-18 with 9:44 left in the half as Funicello's three-point play capped an 8-0 run.