SEGUIN, Texas -- Texas Lutheran Women's Basketball matched the second-best start in school history with a 73-59 home victory Saturday over Schreiner University.
In TLU's Memorial Gymnasium, the Bulldogs improved to 9-3 overall and won in their first-ever Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference women's basketball game.
Schreiner dropped to 5-7 overall and to 0-1 with the loss in its SCAC opener. TLU and Schreiner are in their first seasons in the SCAC after moving from the American Southwest Conference.
TLU's 9-3 start ties the 1997-98 and 1984-85 teams for the second-best start in school history. TLU's best start in women's basketball came in 1973-74 when it posted an 11-1 start through 12 games.
The Bulldogs won for a sixth straight time in 2013-14. TLU's last six-game win streak came during the 1984-85 season.
Bulldog junior point guard
Karisa Cantu (San Antonio/MacArthur) notched a triple-double with 13 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists.
Freshman forward
Kristen Lye (San Antonio/Clark) led TLU in scoring with 14 points. She added three assists and four rebounds. In TLU's 20-4 run to end the first half, Lye made five shots, scoring 10 points.
TLU led 22-20 at the 8:52 mark of the first half and held a 42-24 at the break.
Savannah Hight (San Antonio/Brandeis) and
Taylor Dydalewicz (Dripping Springs/Lake Travis) each hit double figures with 12 and 10 points, respectively.
The Bulldogs opened an 18-point lead at the half and led by as many as 20 early in the second half. Schreiner cut the Bulldogs' lead down to nine, at 65-56, with 2:23 remaining.
TLU pushed the lead back to 15 with a pair of free throws from Cantu and jumpers from Lye and
Chelsey Stolle (Falls City/Falls City). Stolle's jumper found the bottom of the net with just under a minute to play.
The Bulldogs hit the road for their next contest, a SCAC game against Trinity University. The Bulldogs and Tigers meet at 8 p.m. Friday at Trinity's Sams Gymnasium in San Antonio.
TLU will have live video on tlubulldogs.com for the men's and women's games Friday at Trinity. Seguin radio station KWED will provide the audio call and broadcast the game on 1580 AM and on seguintoday.com.
