[Women's Basketball] Hawks Win Season Finale against Life Pacific

SAN DIMAS, Calif. — Playing in their last game of the year, the SDC women's basketball team went off the right way.

The Hawks were able to defeat Life Pacific 54-40 Saturday night.

Kaitlyn McKinney scored a team-high 15 points. Erica McCarter was next with 12 and Shayleen Toehe rounded out the double-digit scorers with 11 points.

SDC forced 16 turnovers on nine steals.

Toehe scored the first points of the game, a triple 50 seconds in for the 3-0 lead. SDC scored the first eight points and led 15-3 with 2:58 remaining. The Warriors were able to respond in the last two minutes going on a small 6-0 run of their own to end the quarter.

They kept their momentum and took their first lead of the game as Alyssa Salgado hit a triple for the 16-15 lead. The quarter was heavily contested by both teams as no team had a lead higher than three points the rest of the half. McCarter hit her free throws to give SDC a 26-24 lead at the break.

Tied 29-29, the Hawks went on another big run, this time 7-0. Leading 42-35 with 8:20 to play, the Hawks put the game away. Toehe scored five consecutive points and McCarter hit another jumper to extend their lead to 14 points. The lead never fell below double digits.

The Hawks finished their season with a record of 8-22 overall and 2-16 in conference play.