SPOKANE, Wash. --- The No. 21 Gonzaga Bulldogs took advantage of a slow start by the Portland Pilots to build an early lead before prevailing 75-43 in a West Coast Conference women's basketball game played on Saturday afternoon at the McCarthey Athletic Center. Alex Fowler led the Pilots with 11 points.
The Bulldogs (10-2, 5-0 WCC) scored the game's first 11 points to surge ahead. Portland's Maddie Muhlheim ended the run with a three-pointer, which briefly cut the deficit to single digits, but it was still an 11-point game after the first quarter. Fowler tried to keep the Pilots within reach with a lay-up down low early in the second, and the Pilots were still within 14 points when Haylee Andrews cut across the lane for a lay-in moments later.