Multitude of errors doom Utes girls in Bruins’ blowout win at house

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LOS ANGELES — The trifecta was not accomplished at Pauley Pavilion Thursday evening.

Over the weekend, each the Runnin’ Utes and the Purple Rocks secured comeback wins in opposition to UCLA. Lynne Roberts’ squad was the newest to try the comeback in Pauley Pavilion over per week’s time, however that hope ended pretty early.

The Bruins opened up the sport on a 12-0 run to take a commanding lead at house earlier than Alissa Pili lastly acquired Utah’s first bucket of the sport — and her 2,000th level — to cease the bleeding. And although Utah made a number of makes an attempt to battle again, the comeback by no means got here.

Utah reduce the result in 8 late within the second quarter, however UCLA reeled off a 6-0 run amid a virtually three-minute scoring drought by the Utes to closeout the quarter and take a 39-25 halftime lead.

UCLA maintained a double-digit lead and by no means let Utah significantly threaten after constructing the lead as much as a 24 factors halfway by means of the third quarter. Utah by no means discovered a constant reply and misplaced 82-52 Thursday evening.

The Utes shot a dismal 32% for the sport, however turnovers and poor capturing from behind the 3-point line doomed the guests. Utah (19-8, 9-6 Pac-12) completed the evening with 20 turnovers, which result in 26 factors for the Bruins, and was solely 1-of-6 on the halftime break and 3-of-15 for the sport from behind the arc.

Utah was with out the service of Issy Palmer (pregame harm) and Jenna Johnson for a time. Johnson left the sport early after struggling a head harm on an inadvertent elbow on a rebound try. The hit to the top left a big gash that required the junior ahead to get stitches through the recreation.

Johnson ultimately returned with about two minutes left within the third quarter, sporting a No. 50 jersey after her authentic No. 22 jersey had an excessive amount of blood from the “2-inch gash,” in accordance with ESPN’s Holly Rowe.

Although a lot of Utah’s issues had been self-inflicted, UCLA’s Lauren Betts additionally made the evening tough for the Utes. Almost each shot try across the rim was swatted away or threatened by Betts, and rebounds had been simply collected by the proficient large.

Betts completed with 14 factors on 6-of-10 capturing, and picked up six rebounds and three blocks within the win.

Although Betts was a menace within the submit, Londynn Jones was deadly from behind the perimeter. The Bruins (21-5, 10-5 Pac-12) guard was 7-of-10 from deep to complete with a team-high 23 factors.

Utah was led in scoring by Pili, who completed with 20 factors on 5-of-13 capturing and an ideal 10-of-10 from the free-throw line. Kennady McQueen, who additionally suffered an elbow harm within the second half, completed with 11 factors within the loss.

Utah’s highway check would not get any simpler because it now stays in Los Angeles to tackle USC Sunday.

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