Women’s basketball continues to roll. Playing without senior forward Kari Daugherty, the Eagles have extended their record to 22-0 overall and 15-0 in the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.

In their last three games—wins over Ohio Dominican, Tiffin and Malone—the women have outscored their opponents by 117 points while only giving up an average of 45 points per game.

They have now won 47 consecutive regular season games and 37 straight GLIAC contests.

At ODU (4-12, 1-12)

After home blowouts of Findlay and Hillsdale the week before, Ashland took its act on the road Jan. 24 and defeated Ohio Dominican 83-46.

The Eagles blitzed the Panthers with 56.7 percent (34 of 60) shooting from the field and 47.1 percent (8 of 17) from 3-point territory.

Junior forward Daiva Gerbec led the team with 18 points and 10 rebounds.

After ODU cut Ashland’s lead to four with 14:26 to play in the first half, the Eagles went on a 17-0 run over the next five-plus minutes that made it 27-7. They carried a 42-23 advantage into halftime.

Junior guard Alyssa Miller, who was the only AU player to go all 20 minutes in the first half, had 13 points, eight rebounds and three assists at the break.

She finished with 15 points, eight rebounds and five assists.

Sophomore guard Taylor Woods also had a big first half with 10 points, four rebounds and four assists on her way to 15 points, four rebounds and eight assists in the game.

Gerbec, who scored just four points in the first half, had 14 points and nine rebounds in the second.

Also scoring in double figures was junior guard Noelle Yoder, who pumped in 13 points, grabbed seven rebounds and dished out three assists off the bench. She was a cool 3 of 5 from behind the arc.

Junior forward Ashley Dorner also added eight points and five rebounds.

Tiffin (9-8, 6-7)

Any hopes that Tiffin had of coming into Kates Gymnasium and knocking off the undefeated Eagles were pretty much dashed in the opening five minutes of an 87-47 blowout.

Ashland used stifling defense and precision offense to jump out to a 17-0 lead before the first media timeout.

“It’s the maturing and the preparation that our team does in the locker room as they get themselves ready to go,” head coach Sue Ramsey said.

Within the first minute, both Woods and senior guard Lindsay Tenyak hit 3-pointers and AU just kept piling it on from there.

During a stretch when the Dragons were forced into three turnovers, the Eagles showed off their nation leading assist-to-turnover ratio (1.54) with five assists and zero turnovers in the five minutes.

In fact, Ashland did not turn the ball over until the 10:43 mark of the first half.

“It’s all about the ball movement,” Ramsey said. “No one really cares who scores just so we get the best shot possible.”

After the initial surge, the Eagles went on another run—this time 9-0—that made it 28-4 with 10 minutes gone and not long after that Tenyak drained “3s” on back-to-back possessions to put AU up 34-8.

At halftime, Ashland led 45-20.

All five AU starters reached double figures in points, with Woods leading the way with 22 points thanks to 6 of 9 shooting from behind the arc. She also had seven rebounds and four assists.

“I could not be more proud of the play (Woods) gave us this week,” Ramsey said. “It was like one of those ‘ah-ha’ moments where all the sudden our sophomore point guard has grown up.”

Miller was spectacular, passing the ball on a rope for a game-high seven assists. She also added 13 points and four rebounds.

Gerbec came the closest to a double-double with 12 points, eight rebounds and three assists and Dorner had 10 points and six boards.

Gerbec also went over the 1,000-point mark for her Ashland career, an emotional moment for her after she sat out last season with an Achilles injury.

Rounding out the starters was Tenyak, who drained three treys and finished with 11 points.

Sophomore forward Melanie Poorman (eight points) and Yoder (six) combined for 14 points off the bench and senior guard Kaci Finfrock made her only shot for three points.

Lake Erie (3-15, 1-14)

Big runs have been a theme for Ashland this year, and Saturday was no different.

The Eagles found themselves up 19-2 over Lake Erie with 10:20 to play in the first half and kept extending their advantage all the way to the final buzzer, when they completed an 84-42 drubbing of the Storm.

“It always comes down to our defense,” Ramsey said. “We know that’s one thing that we will consistently be able to give every game.”

In the opening 9:40, AU turned the ball over just twice and had five assists. Once again, the team stayed sharp throughout, piling up 25 assists to 15 turnovers.

No one was sharper than Miller, who made 3 of her 4 3-point attempts on the way to 13 points, five assists, four rebounds and two steals in the first half.

Woods also continued her hot streak, scoring 14 of her 16 points in the opening period.

Dorner was also instrumental to building the large lead. She scored all eight of her points and grabbed nine of her 13 rebounds and four of her six assists in the first half.

By the end of the half the Eagles opened up a 44-18 lead and the Storm was just trying to stop the bleeding.

The second half started much like the first, with the Eagles going on a 17-3 run that lasted over nine minutes and made it 61-23.

Miller and Woods each finished with a game-high 16 points. Miller also had a game-high seven assists to go along with five rebounds, two steals and a block, and Woods had five rebounds.

The Eagles devastated the Storm on the boards, 57 to 30.

With six games remaining in the regular season, Ashland holds a three-game lead in the GLIAC over Findlay.

Wins over Walsh (7:30 p.m. tonight) and Malone (3 p.m. Saturday) would give the Eagles a chance to win at least a share of the conference title—and clinch home court advantage in the GLIAC tournament—at Findlay on Feb. 14.