SAN ANTONIO – For the first time in over 10 years, No. 1/2 Trinity University Women's Basketball saw a triple-double in the stat sheet Saturday night as junior Maggie Robbins (Plano, Texas / Plano) posted a new career mark for assists (12), matched her career-high in steals (10) and posted 12 points in a 96-38 rout of University of St. Thomas in Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference play.
 
The Tigers (19-0, 10-0 SCAC) sailed away to another unanswered 20-plus point start with a 21-0 lead over the Celts (3-14, 2-8 SCAC) over eight minutes in. In last night's matchup with Centenary College, Trinity jumped out to a 24-0 lead over seven minutes in.
 
Robbins reached her 10th assist with nearly 15 minutes to play in the contest, her 10th point with 6:32 remaining in the fourth quarter then her historic 10th steal just 35 seconds later.

Update: She is the first player at Trinity with a triple-double since Danielle Hubenak had 18 points, 10 rebounds, and 11 assists against Hardin-Simmons University on 11/20/09. Jenna Smith is the only other player in the last 20 years to record such a feat - doing so twice: against Oglethorpe University on 2/16/03 with 13 points, 13 rebounds, and 10 steals; and against Texas Lutheran University on 12/7/04 with 11 points, 13 rebounds, and 10 steals.
 
Led by senior Maggie Shipley (Arlington, Va. / Yorktown) with 19 points off the bench, six Tigers in total landed in double-figures in the scoring column. Senior Ashlyn Milton (Amarillo, Texas / Amarillo) posted 15 points with a team-high eight rebounds, followed by sophomore Josie Napoli (Beaverton, Ore. / Valley Catholic) with 14 points as the duo combined for seven made attempts from beyond the arc.
 
Senior Claire Hale (San Antonio, Texas / Brandeis) posted 10 points and five rebounds while sophomore A'Nnika Saenz (Edinburg, Texas / Edinburg) marked the final double-digit performance with 10 more points in just six minutes on the floor.
 
No. 1/2 Trinity Women's Basketball takes to the road one more time in the 2022-23 regular season with visits to Schreiner University (Jan. 31) and Colorado College (Feb. 5). The Tigers will return for the duration of the current schedule with the final four regular-season SCAC contests, followed by the 2023 SCAC Women's Basketball Championship tournament.
 
The Rundown
 
Trinity jumped out to its second 20-plus point shutout over the course of the first 8:12 of Saturday's contest powered in large part by nine Napoli points and five of Robbins's career-high 12 assists.
 
A lone St. Thomas free throw with roughly 90 seconds left in the first quarter broke up the shutout, though the Tigers were able to fight off the Celts' first made field goal until the team's 13^th attempt fell in with less than a minute to go in the opening frame.
 
St. Thomas dug back into a 14-point deficit with an 11-3 run in three minutes broken up by the quarter break. The margin rode in the mid-teens over the next four minutes until a successful pair from the free line from Robbins kickstarted a 15-0 Trinity stretch to end the half.
 
Saenz produced six of the final seven points of the second period with a pair from downtown while Shipley posted five points herself during the run to match Hale's eight points at the half, one back of the nine first-quarter points from Napoli that carried to intermission.
 
The second unanswered scoring stretch for Trinity came to an end after Robbins drove inside for the first bucket of the second half for a 50-16 margin. The first 40-point lead appeared over a full minute ahead of the halfway point of the third, courtesy of a quick finish inside by senior Addie Putnam (Scottsdale, Ariz. / Xavier) fed by Milton's third assist.
 
Shipley's seventh of 11 third-quarter points marked the first 50-point advantage, 73-22, less than four minutes after Putnam's bucket, to cap a 22-2 run in just under five minutes of the quarter. Robbins pushed into double-figures in assists during this stretch on Shipley's second field goal of the third. The senior capped her 19-point eruption from the bench in the final seconds to match the largest lead to that point, 81-26, the final tally of the third period.
 
The largest lead of the contest came less than two minutes later on Napoli's final basket of the night, and her game-high fourth three-pointer, at the end of a modest 9-0 Tiger run early in the fourth quarter.
 
As the rotation deepened into the final frame, Robbins remained on the court to reach her 10th point from the free throw line ahead of the final media timeout. Two possessions later, the junior point guard forced her way into a tie-up with a friendly possession arrow notch her 10th steal.
 
Coach Speak
 
"Yesterday was Colleen's birthday," Head Coach Cameron Hill offered, "but I knew we had a back-to-back. So, to include her in the recap before we completed the weekend would have been a little like Farmer Ted's serenade of Sam in the shop garage."
 
"Now that we have completed the job," Hill continued, "and Ship emerged as tonight's leading scorer, I can say with a full heart, 'happy 44 baby.'"
 
"From all of us," Hill concluded, "Together Tigers."
 
Up Next
 
No. 1/2 Trinity Women's Basketball will look to obtain unanimous top-ranked status next week ahead of its final scheduled pair of road contests for the 2022-23 campaign at Schreiner (Jan. 31) and Colorado College (Feb. 5).
 
The Tigers will return to Calgaard Gym February 10 to host their remaining four regular-season league matchups over the following two weekends, then prepare to host the 2023 Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Women's Basketball Championship tournament February 24-26.