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EDINBURG –The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) women's basketball team closed the game on an 18-3 run to beat Seattle U 69-56 on Saturday at the UTRGV Fieldhouse.
 
Senior Quynne Huggins led UTRGV (9-9, 3-2 WAC) with 20 points while hitting four three-pointers, grabbing five rebounds and dishing out four assists.Senior Idil Türk and sophomore Amara Graham each scored 11 points. Graduate student Madison Northcutt finished with 10 points and five rebounds.
 
Joana Alves led Seattle U (0-18, 0-5 WAC) with 12 points. Courtney Murphy scored 11 points. Carla Bieg finished with 10 points.
 
Seattle U led 53-51 early in the fourth quarter. Northcutt responded with back-to-back layups, Graham hit a pair of free throws and Huggins nailed a three to give UTRGV a 60-53 lead.
 
Then, with the lead cut to 60-56 with a minute and a half to go, Graham buried a three to spark a 9-0 run to end the game.
 
Graham hit a three and Johnson made a jumper as UTRGV scored the first five points en route to an 8-3 lead.
 
UTRGV led by as much as six in the first half at 12-6 on a Northcutt layup late in the first quarter. Seattle U responded by scoring the next nine points to build a lead that they held for the rest of the half.
 
UTRGV tied the game at 33 on a Northcutt layup at the start of the third quarter and regained the lead at 39-38 on another Northcutt layup.
 
UTRGV is back in action on Saturday at 3 p.m. at defending WAC Champion New Mexico State.

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