The women\u2019s basketball teams from San Diego State and UC San Diego each won road games Saturday afternoon to protect their respective conference leads.<\/p>\n
The Tritons scored a 79-68 win at UC Riverside behind the efforts of guards Makayla Rose (24 points) and freshman reserve Lev Feiman (20 points, three assists and four steals).<\/p>\n
San Diego State scored a 78-64 win at Nevada after leading by 34 points after three quarters to maintain a two-game lead in the Mountain West Conference.<\/p>\n
The Aztecs reached the 20-win plateau for a fourth straight season, tying a program record set from 1994-97. The Aztecs are now 20-4 overall, 14-1 in conference play and 8-1 in road games.<\/p>\n
The Aztecs led by as many as 37 points and entered the fourth quarter with a 69-35 lead. But Nevada (8-17, 4-11) finished the game on a 16-1 run.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m proud of our ability to win on the road,\u201d said Aztec coach Stacie Terry-Hutson. \u201cWe played really good basketball for about 30 minutes. We had a good start to the game and kind of put them away. We\u2019re a young group, but we\u2019re mature. We still need to learn how to finish.\u201d<\/p>\n
Maria Konstantinidou came off the bench to score 12 points on 6-for-6 shooting. Kennedy Lee also had 12 points, while Naomi Panganiban, Nala Williams and Kaelyn Hamilton all finished with 10.<\/p>\n
Nine Aztecs scored and 10 played more than 10 minutes.<\/p>\n
San Diego State maintained its two-game lead over UNLV (17-8, 12-3) heading into Wednesday night\u2019s meeting between the Mountain West leaders at Viejas Arena.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, UCSD improved to 18-7 overall and 13-2 in Big West Conference play with their win over the Highlanders (8-17, 6-9). The victory came two nights after a triple-overtime loss to UC Davis.<\/p>\n
Playing every minute for the 10th time this season, Rose went 8 for 16 from the field and connected on all three of her 3-point attempts. Feiman scored a season-high 20 points in just 20 minutes.<\/p>\n
UCSD\u2019s full-court pressure defense forced the Highlanders into 23 turnovers, leading to 21 points.<\/p>\n
UCSD led by as many as 17 (65-48) in the wire-to-wire victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The women\u2019s basketball teams from San Diego State and UC San Diego each won road games Saturday afternoon…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1327,181,74,76,75,305,127],"class_list":{"0":"post-178619","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-college-sports","9":"tag-latest-headlines","10":"tag-san-diego","11":"tag-san-diego-headlines","12":"tag-san-diego-news","13":"tag-sdsu-aztecs","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}