IRVING, Texas – No. 2 Trinity University Women's Basketball dominated the first and final quarters Friday night for a 78-67 victory at University of Dallas in Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference play, collecting season-best scoring outputs from senior Maggie Shipley (Arlington, Va. / Yorktown) and sophomore Josie Napoli (Beaverton, Ore. / Valley Catholic).
 
The Tigers (14-0, 5-0 SCAC) collected a repeat of Shipley's strong off-the-bench scoring from Monday's 74-63 bout with Colorado College as she dropped 22 points on the Crusaders. Napoli collected the bulk of her 19 points in the first 10 minutes as she provided 13 of Trinity's 34 points in the first quarter.
 
Junior Maggie Robbins (Plano, Texas / Plano) provided seven steals—her second-best in the category this season—to go along with eight points, six assists and four rebounds.
 
Despite a slow night, senior Ashlyn Milton (Amarillo, Texas / Amarillo) was able to tie Trinity's all-time lead in career made three-pointers Friday night which came in the midst of a 21-2 first-quarter flurry for the Tigers.
 
No. 2 Trinity Women's Basketball remains in North Texas overnight to visit Austin College Saturday afternoon for a 4:00 p.m. tip-off.
 
The Rundown
 
The Tigers retaliated for an early 7-4 deficit Friday night with a 21-2 barrage of the Crusaders in less than three minutes, with 11 points poured in from Napoli including two of four made attempts from beyond the arc for Trinity during the stretch. Shipley and Milton accounted for the other two long-range makes, which put Milton in a tie for the program's all-time lead in career made three-pointers.
 
The 16-point spread, 25-9, at the end of the run was bested as the largest Tiger lead of the first half by a pair of makes at the charity stripe from first-year Skye O'Rourke (Austin, Texas / Vandegrift) for the 34-17 first-quarter tally.
 
Momentum faded for Trinity in the second period as Dallas slowly maneuvered its way back to a two-possession margin with a minute to play in the first half, 43-38, including a 12-2 run for the Crusaders that consumed nearly five minutes to start the quarter. A made three-pointer from senior Emily Nelson (Sugar Land, Texas / Saint Agnes) led the Tiger offense in the second as four others in maroon each added a pair.
 
The Crusaders continued their comeback all the way to a 45-44 margin with seven minutes to play in the third. Trinity immediately responded with eight unanswered points, split evenly between Robbins and senior Addie Putnam (Scottsdale, Ariz. / Xavier Prep), to put the matchup back on the brink of a double-digit advantage, 53-44. The pendulum swung again, however, as the quarter ended 59-57 in favor of the Tigers.
 
Trinity drew first blood in the fourth quarter—the only period it did so—and continued to draw for 13 unanswered points as the Tigers shut out their host for nearly all of the first five minutes of the closing period. The final bucket of the quarter-opening run marked Shipley's 20^th point as a pair of free throws finished her night's total in the closing moments.
 
Coach Speak
 
"Playing Dallas felt like being a Goonie," Head Coach Cameron Hill began. "It all started great: Chunck doing the truffle shuffle, Data using his gadgets, Mouth speaking in Spanish!"

"But then the Fratellis showed up," Hill pivoted. "Shortly after, we had to deal with the One-Eyed Willie and all of his traps!"

"But we stuck together. We knew, Goonies never say die! We found the rich stuff, saved the Goon Docks, and we can sail off to Sherman to meet the Roos!"

Up Next
 
The second-ranked Tigers will continue SCAC play Saturday afternoon at Austin College to complete the first half of their current four-game road trip in league play. Trinity will visit Texas Lutheran University (Jan. 13) and Southwestern University (Jan. 14) before returning to San Antonio.