KUTZTOWN, Pa. – The Holy Family University women's basketball team led wire-to-wire in a 70-57 win at Kutztown on Wednesday evening to extend its win streak to eight, matching the longest for the program since the beginning of the 2015-16 season. 
 
Individual Highlights

• Claire Dougherty (Lehman, Pa./Lake-Lehman) led the Tigers with her first career 20-point performance in just 22 minutes, while also tying a career-high with seven rebounds
• Taylor Hinkle (Chalfont, Pa./Central Bucks South) recorded her fourth double-double in seven games with a season-best 17 points on 8-of-12 shooting and a game and career-high 12 boards
  • She also set a career-best with four assists
• Skyler Searfoss (Jim Thorpe, Pa./Jim Thorpe Area) had four assists too, while approaching a double-double of her own with nine points and eight rebounds
• Carly Bolivar (Elmont, N.Y./Sewanhaka (Alliance)) matched Hinkle and Searfoss with four assists, while Ava Morrow (Morgantown, Pa./Twin Valley) contributed eight points and six boards

 
Inside the Box Score

• Holy Family dominated inside, outscoring KU 34-16 in points in the paint and outrebounding the Golden Bears 46-30

 
How it Happened
First Quarter

• Morrow opened the scoring with a 3-pointer and HFU led throughout, including by as many as seven, 12-5, when Hinkle tallied her sixth point with 6:18 left
• Kutztown cut the deficit to 14-12 three minutes later, but Bolivar closed out the period with two free throws for a four-point advantage 

Second Quarter

• Dougherty scored nine straight points early in the second for the first double-digit cushion, 25-14, three and a half minutes in
• The Golden Bears got as close as six three times, but Dougherty nailed a 3-pointer and this time it was Searfoss ending the quarter with foul shots to re-establish an 11-point lead, 39-28, at the break

Third Quarter

• Despite KU pulling within five early in the third, a Dougherty layup midway through the period pushed the advantage back to double-digits, 50-39
• The Golden Bears cut the deficit to five once more entering the final minute, 47-52, but again it was Bolivar knocking down two foul shots for a 54-47 score-line with 10 minutes to go

Fourth Quarter

• Holy Family tallied the first six points of the fourth for a game-high 13-point cushion, 60-47, on Lindsay Tretter's (Philadelphia, Pa./Archbishop Wood) 3-pointer two and a half minutes in, and KU could only get as close as eight

 
 
Up Next
The Tigers play one final PSAC opponent on Sunday, when it travels to face East Stroudsburg at 1 p.m.