Women of Troy defeat Santa Clara 81-46 at home


Career night · Redshirt junior guard Jordan Adams led the Women of Troy with a career-high 21 points and 12 rebounds in USC’s 81-46 win over Santa Clara on Monday night. The Trojans are 2-0. - Mariya Dondonyan | Daily Trojan

Career night · Redshirt junior guard Jordan Adams led the Women of Troy with a career-high 21 points and 12 rebounds in USC’s 81-46 win over Santa Clara on Monday night. The Trojans are 2-0. – Mariya Dondonyan | Daily Trojan

In their second game of the season, the Women of Troy beat Santa Clara by a score of  81-46 Monday night at the Galen Center.

The team never fell behind the Gaels, and at one point boasted a 45-point lead over a team that could not stop the Trojans’ offensive onslaught.

Redshirt junior guard Jordan Adams led the team in both scoring and rebounds, hitting eight of her 13 shots to score 21 points. Adams also hit three three-pointers in a game that she dominated in scoring and rebounding.

Adams secured 12 rebounds on her way to the double-double. The game was Adams’s second straight double-double of the season. She also tied her career high in points.

Three other Trojans notched double digits in scoring during Monday night’s matchup. Harvard graduate transfer Temi Fagbenle recorded her first double-digit scoring as a Trojan with 17 points.

Freshman Aliyah Mazyck put another 14 points in the book for USC, and sophomore Kristen Simon added 11 points to go along with seven rebounds.

The Trojans’ offense was unstoppable in part because of how many players were able to find the basket for USC. Both Adams and Mazyck were in double digits before the first half was over.

The flow of the game was severely affected by the number of foul calls in a game in which each team was called for 27 fouls. The Trojans scored more points from the freethrow line than the field in the first quarter, and the team’s final nine points of the half also came from the stripe.

By halftime, the Women of Troy were leading 48-17 behind 7-0 and 11-0 runs in the first and second quarters respectively.

The offensive firepower did not stop for the Women of Troy after halftime, however, and the team opened with a 15-0 run. USC maintained their lead with the third period closing on a 67-31 score in favor of the Trojans.

USC was outscored in the fourth quarter giving up 15 points while only scoring 14.

The team will have nearly a week to rest and prepare for their next matchups as part of the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame Challenge in Spokane, Washington. To open the holiday season, the team will have a Sunday afternoon game against Grand Canyon, a Monday night game against West Virginia, and a Tuesday night game against Gonzaga.