Pac-12 women: USC beats Cougars; UCLA rolls past Huskies

Aliya Mazyck scored 27 points, Minyon Moore had 21 and USC beat Washington State 81-73 on Sunday in Los Angeles.

Kayla Overbeck added 12 points and Asiah Jones 10 for the Trojans (13-8, 3-7). USC shot 52 percent, though it was only 2 of 13 from 3-point range. The Trojans scored 22 points off 15 WSU turnovers and dominated points in the paint 58-24.

Borislava Hristova scored 24 points and had 10 rebounds and five assists for the Cougars (7-15, 2-9), who have lost six straight games and have lost four in a row to USC.

Hristova finished the day with 1,559 career points, passing Tia Presley (2011-15) on the all-time WSU list.

Alexys Swedlund added 18 points and Chanelle Molina 17 with the Cougars shooting 51 percent and making 11 of 27 from the arc.

Trailing by one at halftime, USC took a 64-59 lead after finishing the third quarter on a 7-0 surge. Molina’s fifth 3-pointer got WSU within four with 3:34 left in the game before Jones scored four points in a 7-0 surge to lead by nine with 40 seconds left.

The Cougars scored 30 points – hitting 5 of 7 3-point tries, four by Molina – in the first quarter but went without a field goal for the first 8 1/2 minutes of the second and clung to a 40-39 halftime lead.

UCLA 76, Washington 60: Michaela Onyenwere scored 10 of her 12 points in the first half when UCLA (13-9, 6-4 Pac-12) rolled to a 24-point lead that carried the Bruins to a win over the Huskies in Los Angeles.

Lindsey Corsaro scored 14 points, Japreece Dean added 13 points and seven assists, Kennedy Burke scored 12 points and Lajahna Drummer added 10 with a game-high seven rebounds as all five Bruins starters scored in double figures. UCLA shot 57 percent in winning its fourth in a row.

The Bruins shot 76 percent in the first quarter in taking a 30-11 lead which they extended to 43-19 at halftime. The lead reached 28 points early in the third quarter and was 22 entering the final period. The Huskies didn’t get closer than 15 in the fourth.

Amber Meldoza scored 23 points for Washington (8-15, 1-10), which has lost seven straight. Darcy Rees and Missy Peterson added 10 points each.