EUGENE, Ore. – The Bushnell University women's basketball team led from start to finish to record a 74-62 victory over Warner Pacific University in Saturday's Cascade Collegiate Conference contest in the Morse Center.   
 
Head Coach Chad Meadors said, "We played a really solid first quarter tonight. It was an ugly second half and of course you want to finish it off strong, but we still found a way to get it done. We shot the ball well all night long and that's going to win you a lot of games. It's great to be sitting at 3-0 in conference play with a week to prepare for our next opponents."
 
Bushnell (6-2, 3-0 CCC) led 19-5 after the first quarter, holding the Knights (0-6, 0-4) to 2-for-11 shooting in the period. The Beacons extended their advantage to 47-27 at the break after putting up nearly 30 points in the second quarter.
 
Warner Pacific outscored Bushnell in the second half but the Beacons did not allow the Knights to get within single digits. The Knights were held to 37.5% shooting on the contest, including 24% from beyond the arc.
 
The Beacons shot 50.9% from the floor as a team, making 28.6% from three-point range. Bella Pedrojetti led Bushnell in scoring for the second straight night, recording 21 points with four threes.
 
Aspen Slifka and Libby Mathis finished with 11 points apiece with Slifka adding six rebounds. Aly Mirabile had a balanced night, posting five points, six rebounds, five assists and three steals.
 
As a team, the Beacons forced 27 turnovers but committed 23 of their own. The Knights finished with a 36-31 advantage in rebounds. McKeeley Tonkin led WPU with 18 points, while Bobbi Clark and Paityn Rhode added 13 points each.
 
The Beacons have a week off before hosting Walla Walla University (Dec. 17) and No. 13 Lewis-Clark State College (Dec. 18).