CLARION, Pa. --- The Golden Eagles women's basketball team picked up their 10^th win of the season in convincing fashion on Thursday night, beating Point Park 79-63 in Tippin Gymnasium. Clarion enjoyed a comfortable offensive advantage over the Pioneers, limiting Point Park to a 37.1 field goal percentage, and the Golden Eagles controlled the glass en route to the win.
 
With the victory, the Golden Eagles continued what has been a remarkable turnaround from last season. After winning just one game during the 2023-24 season, Clarion has won 10 games in a season for the first time since the 2016-17 season, when they went 15-14 overall. It is the first time the Golden Eagles have won 10 games before the calendar flipped in program history.
 
Clarion won the battle on the glass, out-rebounding the Pioneers 47-36. Tearra Cook led all players on the floor with 11 boards on her way to a double-double, with the senior forward also contributing 10 points on 4-of-8 shooting. Freshman Zoe Guice was a do-it-all player for the Golden Eagles, scoring 17 points on 6-of-10 shooting and also contributing five rebounds, five steals and four assists. She even threw in a pair of blocked shots, contributing to seven total blocks for Clarion.
 
Siara Conley gave the Golden Eagles an 11-9 lead with 6:23 remaining in the first quarter, breaking a 9-9 tie, and as it turned out that was the final time the Pioneers threatened for the remainder of the game. The bucket kicked off an 8-0 run that included a bookends play by DayLynn Thornton, with her stealing the ball from Emma Pavelek and going the other way for a make that set the score at 17-9.
 
Conley scored again to make it 21-12, and Cook took a pass from Guice on the fast break and laid it in with 52 seconds left to increase the lead to double-digits in the first quarter. Guice finished off an and-one midway through the second quarter to make it a 34-24 lead, and the lead went as high as 20 points in the first half when Taylor pulled down a defensive rebound and drove for a score at the 3:18 mark. The Pioneers pulled to within eight points early in the third quarter, with Alexis Giles hitting a three-pointer at the 7:10 mark, but Clarion's advantage ballooned to 19 points by the end of the period after a jumper by Madison Palek.
 
Four total Golden Eagles finished in double figures in scoring. Besides Guice and Cook, Taylor (15 points) and Hannah Wilkerson (11) also cracked the 10-point mark.
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