Taylor Herd's 16 Points Leads QU Women's Basketball to 74-38 Win Over Iona

Saturday, January 6

New Rochelle, NY / Hynes Athletic Center

1:00 PM

Quinnipiac University

10-5, 4-0MAAC

Iona

0-15, 0-4MAAC

Quinnipiac

Iona College

Taylor Herd's 16 Points Leads QU Women's Basketball to 74-38 Win Over Iona

1/6/2018 3:10:00 PM | Women's Basketball

Box Score

By: QU Athletic Communications

NEW ROCHELLE, New York - After scoring a career-high 16 points in Thursday's win over Niagara, Taylor Herd matched that performance with another 16-point outing as the Quinnipiac women's basketball team defeated the Iona College Gaels, 74-38, on Saturday afternoon at the Hynes Athletic Center.

The win was Quinnipiac's fifth in a row as the Bobcats move to 4-0 in MAAC play with a win before heading home to play host to Marist on Thursday at 10 a.m. It was a total team effort as four Bobcat players scored in double figures.

SCORE
Quinnipiac 74 / Iona 38
RECORDS
Quinnipiac (10-5) (4-0 MAAC) | Iona (0-15) (0-4 MAAC)
LOCATION
Hynes Athletic Center / New Rochelle, New York

BOBCATS STATISTICAL LEADERS

Points: Herd 16, Thornton 12, Fay 12, Fabbri 10, Strautmane 8
Rebounds: McClure 9, Fay 10, Warfel 6
Assists: McClure 5, Fabbri 4, Struatmane 4
Steals: Strautmane 5, Herd 3, Fabbri 3
Blocks: Strautmane 1, Fay 1

NOTES

The victory is Quinnipiac's fifth-consecutive.
The victory was the Bobcats' fifth road win of the season, Quinnipiac finished last season with 11 home victories.
The victory over Iona was Quinnipiac's 14th-straight win against a MAAC opponent dating back to last season.
Taylor Herd (Quakertown, Pennsylvania) scored 16 points in the victory, tying her career-high.
Herd scored 16 points in Thursday's win over Niagara.
Both Edel Thorton (Guarranabraher, Ireland) and Jen Fay (Lynbrook, New York) contributed 12 points apiece.
Paula Strautmane (Riga, Latvia) contributed eight points and tied her career-high with five steals.
Carly Fabbri (Stratford, Connecticut) added 10 points and seven assists.
Quinnipiac led from beginning to end, as the Bobcats never looked back after Herd knocked down a three-pointer in the first 15 seconds of the contest.
The Bobcats opened the game with a 12-4 run in the first eight minutes of play.
Herd came out on fire, scoring nine of the 12 Quinnipiac points during the run.
Herd scored 12 of Quinnipiac's 15 first quarter points.
Herd outscored Iona 12-9 in the first quarter, knocking down four three-pointers in the process.
The Bobcats used a 7-0 run in the second quarter to take a 13-point lead (28-15), its largest of the first half.
After taking a 33-22 lead into halftime, Quinnipiac came out in the second half with a 13-2 run to take an early third quarter 46-24 lead.
Six different Bobcats scored on the run.
Quinnipiac went up 37, its largest lead of the game, after Paige Warfel (Chester Springs, Pennsylvania) knocked down a free throw with 5:46 to go in the fourth quarter to take a 66-29 lead.
The Bovcats outscored Iona 41-16 in the second half.
Quinnipiac scored 24 points off 27 Iona turnovers.
Quinnipiac knocked down 13 three-pointers, the Bobcats have made at least 10 in their four MAAC contests.