The Eastern Washington University women's basketball team is in the win column after a 101-38 throttling of Evergreen State College today (Nov. 21) at Reese Court. The point total is the third-most in program history, and the Eagles also made 17 three-pointers to tie the single-game school record.
 
The victory marked the first of head coach Joddie Gleason's career, as the Eagles improve to 1-3 overall on the young season. The Geoducks, who play in the Cascade Collegiate Conference at the NAIA level, drop to 0-3.
 
It was the most amount of points scored in a single game since March 2, 2018 and 17 three-pointers tie the school record set back on Jan. 18, 2020.
 
Both Jordyn Boesel and Jaydia Martin made five three-pointers each, finishing with 17 points apiece to lead the team. Nuria Cunill, in her first start of the season, earned the first double-double of her career with 12 points and a team-high 14 rebounds. Jaleesa Lawrence finished with a career-high 14 points while Andie Zylak added 10 for a new career-high as well.
 
"Today was awesome and I'm happy for our team, they've been working really hard and they deserve the reward of a win after all of their hard work. It was special to celebrate this with all of these great people," said head coach Joddie Gleason. "It's easy to not play at your best in these situations, but I feel like our team did a nice job of doing the things we asked. We asked them to share the ball and to set others up, that was something we'd been driving home this week. We needed to take uncontested shots versus instead of settling for contested shots, and getting over 20 assists showed that we were doing that. Making the shots helped, but setting people up was a big goal. Defensively, we had different team goals that we wanted to lock down and I loved that it occurred over all four quarters."
 
Eastern Washington made seven three-pointers in the first quarter, making its first four attempts from behind the arc to take a 12-3 lead. Evergreen State College then used a 7-0 run to threaten Eastern's lead 13-10, forcing the Eagles to take a timeout. Out of the break, EWU pulled back ahead with a 7-0 run for its largest lead of the game. Jordyn Boesel would hit consecutive triples with under 40 seconds left and the Eagles held a comfortable 26-11 lead after the first.
 
The Eagles outscored the Geoducks 27-9 in the second quarter after shooting 52.4 percent (11-21) from the field and 50 percent (4-8) from the free throw line. Boesel and Martin each had two three-pointers in the second half, while Zylak added six. Defensively, the Eagles held the Geoducks to 4-of-17 (23.5%) from the field. After two quarters of play, the Eagles led 53-20, scoring 50 points in a half for the first time since Feb. 21, 2019 against Southern Utah.
 
The success continued into the second half as the Eagles opened play on a 9-0 run and didn't allow Evergreen to score until the 5:17 mark and held them without a field goal until there were 27 second left in the quarter, outscoring ESC 27-8 to lead 80-28 with a quarter to go. Eastern's largest run of 15-0 came in the third quarter as well.
 
The Eagles cruised to victory, shooting 56.3 percent from the field in the fourth quarter and outscored the Geoducks once again, 21-10, en route to the 101-38 win.
 
TOP PERFORMANCES: Five Eagles scored in double figures this afternoon. Jaydia Martin scored 17 points on 6-of-13 from the field and 5-of-9 from the three-point line.
 
Jordyn Boesel saw just 18 minutes of action and scored 17 points for a new career-high. She was 6-of-9 from the field and 5-of-8 from three-point range while adding four rebounds, two assists and a steal.
 
Nuria Cunill earned her first career double-double, scoring a career-high 12 points and a career-best 14 rebounds for the team lead. She also led the team with three blocks and grabbed two steals plus an assist.
 
Both Andie Zylak and Jaleesa Lawrence scored in double figures for the first time in their young careers. Lawrence added 14 points and led the team with four assists. She had two steals, a block and four rebounds and was 6-of-9 from the field. Zylak also dished four assists and added 10 points on 5-of-10 from the field to go with five rebounds.
 
Britt Van Buren made her season debut and grabbed a career-best seven boards. Megan Fossen added six points for a new career-high, all from behind the arc. Kallie Schaplow also added a three-pointer in the effort, along with Bria Rice who had two three-pointers for eight points total plus three assists.
 
KEY STATISTICS: In all, Eastern Washington was 40-for-76 (52.6%) from the field. The 40 field goals are the sixth-most in program history. In the school record three-point effort, the Eagles were 17-of-34 (50%) and made four of their six free throw attempts.
 
Defensively, they held the Geoducks to 21.1 percent (12-57) from the field, 11.1 percent (2-18) from three-point range, and Evergreen made 12-of-16 at the free throw line.
 
Eastern Washington scored 42 points in the paint and held the Geoducks to 14. They out-rebounded Evergreen 56 to 26, the most rebounds in a game since Feb. 22, 2018 and eighth-most in program history.
 
UP NEXT: Following the Thanksgiving break, Eastern Washington will be back at home to host Multnomah on Saturday, Nov. 27 at 2 p.m. at Reese Court.