CLARION, Pa. – The Clarion women's basketball team started fast on offense and clamped down on defense as the game went on, defeating Penn State-DuBois 83-36 at Tippin Gymnasium on Monday night.  The Golden Eagles (6-5, 1-4 PSAC) held the Nittany Lions to single digits in scoring in each of the last three quarters as they rolled their way to a 47-point victory at home.
 
Clarion held the Nittany Lions to just a 24.1 field goal percentage in the game, including a miniscule 5-of-27 mark in the second half of action.  The Golden Eagles forced 29 turnovers and turned them into 34 points, keeping PSU-DuBois at bay and never allowing them back into the game.
 
Amesha Harden-Pullium finished with a team-high 18 points on 6-of-11 shooting while also adding five steals.  Jordan Bekelja also went 6-of-11 with 15 points, five assists and five steals.  Tracy Wiehe had her third double-double with 13 points and 10 rebounds, while Yasmin Lewis had a team-high 11 rebounds on the night.
 
PSU-DuBois pulled within 5-4 early in the first quarter but that would be the closest they came to tying or taking the lead all night long.  Lewis scored in the paint to make at the 3:54 mark to make it 17-10 and Tynita White upped the lead to nine points on the next possession, taking a pass from Bekelja and laying it in.  Bekelja gave Clarion their first double-digit lead with 1:02 remaining in the first quarter, scoring in transition after a steal by Wiehe to make it 23-12. 
 
The Golden Eagles never stopped putting on pressure, though, and eventually the lead ballooned to more than 20 points.  Bekelja stripped Kristen Williams of the ball and laid it in on the fast break to make it 35-14 with 3:48 left in the second quarter, and the junior guard increased the lead to 29 points with 22 second left when she scored another transition bucket.  Harden-Pullium finally pushed the Golden Eagles' advantage to more than 30 points midway through the third quarter, taking a feed from Taylor Moltz and burying a three-pointer to make it 56-26.  Moltz herself gave Clarion a 40-point edge at the end of the period, making a three-pointer off a pass from Yndiah Bobo with 19 ticks of the clock remaining.
 
It was all academic the rest of the way as the Clarion bench got in on the fun as well.  Shelby Coughenour made a jumper from the elbow to make it 71-29, and added another J at the 6:20 mark to push the lead to 43 points.  Coughenour added two free throws at the end of the fourth to wrap up her six-point night as Clarion rolled to the finish.