GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - The Davenport women's basketball team welcomed No. 22 Olivet Nazarene to the DU Student Center on Tuesday night in what turned into a track meet. The Tigers feature the top scoring offense in NAIA Division II (107 points per game) and keep pressure on the ball for a full 40 minutes. The seventh-ranked Panthers (11-1) beat them at their own game in this one with a 121-88 win in non-conference action. The Panthers put up gaudy numbers and set school record for field goals (54), rebounds (79) and blocked shots (14) en route to the victory.

Davenport had their third highest scoring game in school history and shot 54 percent going 54-of-100 from the floor. The team defense by DU was also very good as ONU scored 29 points under their season average and shot just 31.1 percent from the floor (33-of-106). The specialty numbers were also lopsided in favor of Davenport. They had 88 points in the paint as they beat the full court press all night. The Panthers also had 42 second-chance points and 40 points on the fast break.

Freshman Jenna Falkenberg had a huge game setting the school record with 23 rebounds. She also scored a season-high 16 points and blocked six shots which was one shy of the school record. She did all of this in just 18 minutes and shot 8-of-13 from the floor. Junior Hannah Wilkerson shot 7-of-7 in the first half and finished with a career-high 18 points on 9-of-11 from the floor in 18 minutes. Senior Chri Carter set a career-high with seven field goals in 10 attempts and finished with 18 points and six assists. Senior Molly Babbs went 7-of-9 from the floor to finish with 15 points and also set a career-high with six assists. Senior Mallory Sewell also set a career-high with 14 rebounds and scored 13 points for her first double-double of the season.

Olivet Nazarene led 25-24 at the end of the first quarter and held a 16-6 lead with 5:18 left. DU went on a 10-2 run over the next three minutes capped off by a Sewell jumper in the paint. The Tigers took a 30-26 lead early in the second quarter after a triple by Amelia Denison at the 8:34 mark. ONU continued to lead 43-39 with 3:50 until halftime when the Panthers closed out the quarter with a 55-50 lead. There were four ties and three lead changes in the second quarter.

The first five minutes of the third quarter saw the Panthers build a 13-point lead at 67-54 on a Momo Neal fast-break bucket. The lead ballooned to 18 points at the end of the third quarter at 81-63 after a three-point play by Amanda Merz. Olivet Nazarene shot just 19.4 percent in the quarter while Davenport was 11-of-23 for 47.8 percent.

The fourth quarter saw Davenport pull away shooting 19-of-27 (70.4 percent) including 17-of-20 inside the arc. The biggest lead for DU was 36 points with 2:22 left in the contest. Davenport now leads the all-time series 3-2.