Davis, Calif. - UC Davis sent its seniors out on a high note on Saturday afternoon and created a bit of history for its head coach, defeating Cal State Fullerton 70-42 to put an emphatic bow on the 2021-22 regular season.
Cierra Hall,
Kayla Konrad and
Sage Stobbart each made their final appearance in University Credit Union Center and the three seniors combined to lead the Aggies and help head coach
Jennifer Gross to her 200th career win.
Hall had 19 points and eight rebounds, Stobbart 13 points and nine rebounds, and Konrad 11 points and three steals. Stobbart also had two blocks, bringing her season total to 52 and moving her into sole posession of second place on the program all-time list with 152. In all 10 Aggies scored on Saturday and though the 11th
Campbell Gray did not, she had five assists, two rebounds and a steal to finish plus-nine over 24 minutes.
The Aggies led wire-to-wire, jumping out to an 11-0 lead and not allowing Cal State Fullerton to score until 1:59 left in the first quarter. Leading 17-6 after one, UC Davis started the second quarter on a 12-0 run to balloon the lead to 29-6. UC Davis increased that lead to as much as 36 on a three by
Makaila Sanders with 7:38 to go in the fourth that made it a 64-28 game.
UC Davis allowed the Titans to shoot a season-low 23 percent from the field and forced 17 turnovers, 11 of which came on steals.
For the Aggies' head coach, the win put Gross in rarified air in the Big West Conference. She's only the fifth head coach in conference history to reach the 200 win mark, with 115 of those coming during conference play.
The Aggies finish the regular season at 14-12 and 8-8 in the conference, the seventh straight winning record for the program. Saturday's games had not yet concluded to clear up the Aggies' schedule next week at the Big West Conference Tournament.