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EDINBURG, Texas – The University of Texas-Pan American Broncs women's basketball team tied their fourth-highest scoring total in program history with a 94-51 victory over the Huston-Tillotson University Rams on Wednesday at the UTPA Fieldhouse.
 
The 94 points are the most the Broncs (4-8) have scored in a game since they scored 97 in a win over Texas Lutheran on November 20, 2008. It is the 12^th time in program history that the Broncs broke the 90-point plateau. It is the second time the Broncs have scored more than 90 points against the Rams (2-6), with the other time occurring during the 1984-85 season, a 91-90 Broncs win.
 
Up 39-18 at halftime, the Broncs scored 55 second half points while hitting 20-of-35 shots  (57.1%). Overall, the Broncs hit 34-of-66 shots (51.5%), including 6-of-18 from behind the arc (33.3%) in addition to 20-of-25 from the foul line (80%).
 
LaQuita Garner and Keandra Goodson were two of a season-high five Broncs in double-figures, scoring a team-high 16 points. It was a career-high in scoring for Goodson, who also added a career-high nine rebounds. Adanna Opara scored 15 points with nine rebounds and two blocks, Donna Jackson scored 15 points with seven rebounds and four steals while Franchesca Simon scored a season-high 10 points.
 
Opara hit a pair of lay-ups as the Broncs opened the game on an 8-2 run. The Rams hit back-to-back baskets to make it a two-point game, but the Broncs scored six-straight points to go up 14-6 with 12:42 remaining in the first half.
 
Up 21-15 mid-way through the half, the Broncs scored seven-straight points, capped by a Jackson steal that led to a Garner three to put the Broncs up by 13. After Lakeva Castillo hit a pair of free throws, the Broncs scored nine points in a row and 11 of the final 12 of the half to make it an 18-3 run, punctuated by an Opara lay-up to make it 39-17 with 39 seconds remaining.
 
Edinburg-native and freshman guard Laura Torres scored her first-career points on a basket with less then five minutes to play to make it 85-46. Freshman guard TaQuiyyah Boyles collected a career-high three rebounds.
 
Bianca Torre hit two field goals to break a tie with Bobbie Cole (1993-97) for seventh place on the all-time UTPA list and catch former-teammate Aleeya Grigsby (2006-10) for sixth place with 325 made field goals.
 
The Broncs start a three-game road trip on Sunday at 2:00 p.m. when they visit Oklahoma State University.
 
The University of Texas-Pan American Department of Intercollegiate Athletics competes at the NCAA Division I classification. UTPA, formerly known as Pan American College and Pan American University, is a part of the University of Texas System of Schools. The Broncs compete in 14 varsity sports; men's and women's basketball, golf, tennis, track and field, and cross country, along with women's volleyball and men's baseball. In 1963, then known as Pan American College, the Broncs men's basketball program won the NAIA National Championship with a 73-62 victory over Western Carolina. In 2008 UTPA joined the new all-sports division of the Great West Conference.