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EDINBURG – The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Vaqueros women's basketball team completed the season sweep of the University of the Incarnate Word Cardinals with a 60-47 victory on Thursday at the UTRGV Fieldhouse.
 
Junior Shawnte' Goff led the Vaqueros (6-6) with 16 points and six assists. Freshman Bernesha Peters hit a career-high five three-pointers for a career-high tying 15 points. Senior Rickell Preston scored 12 points with 12 rebounds (seven offensive) and a season-high five steals for her second double-double of the season. In her first-career start, junior Anushka Maldonado scored seven points with five rebounds, four assists, three blocks and three steals.
 
The Vaqueros scored 18 points off of 20 Cardinals (3-7) turnovers. The Cardinals scored seven points off of nine Vaqueros turnovers.
 
Brianna Williams led the Cardinals with 15 points.
 
Peters hit a pair of threes as the Vaqueros jumped out to a 10-4 lead. Then, after a Celia Garcia Paunero three made it a one-possession game, Preston bookended an 11-0 run with jumpers to give the Vaqueros a 21-7 lead.
 
Williams responded with back-to-back threes to bring the Cardinals within eight, but a layup by Goff and a three by Maldonado allowed the Vaqueros to push their lead back out to 13. Williams followed with a layup to spark a 9-2 run as the Cardinals pulled within 28-22, but Preston and Goff hit layups to push the lead back into double-figures.
 
The Cardinals climbed to within 40-32 mid-way through the third quarter, but Peters hit two threes as part of an 11-3 run that saw the Vaqueros go up 51-35.
 
The Vaqueros took their largest lead early in the fourth quarter when Preston made a layup to make it a 19-point game at 58-39.
 
The Vaqueros are back in action on Sunday at 1 p.m. when they visit Houston.

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