WBB: Coyotes extend streak to 20 consecutive league wins with sweep of Denver

VERMILLION, S.D. (GoYotes.com —Behind the Coyotes’ most efficient shooting performance of the season, South Dakota downed Denver 87-47 inside the Sanford Coyote Sports Center on Saturday afternoon.

The Coyotes (5-3, 1-0 Summit) put four players in double-figures for the second consecutive game. South Dakota extends its Summit League winning streak to 19 games.

Preseason Summit Player of the Year Hannah Sjerven put a stamp on her conference debut with her third double-double of the season. She scored 23 points on 8-of-10 shooting and pulled down 10 rebounds – five on the offensive glass. It was also her 10th career 20-point game. Senior Chloe Lamb, also a preseason first-team pick, had one of her most efficient games of the season with 18 points on 8-of-11 shooting. She added three rebounds, two steals and two assists. Senior Liv Korngable scored 16 first-half points to go with four assists and three rebounds.  Sophomore Macy Guebert had a season-best 11 points with three triples in 13 minutes of action.

Denver (2-7, 0-1 Summit) was led by Uju Ezeudu’s team-high 15 points and eight boards. She was the only Pioneer to reach double-digits in the scoring column.

Senior center Hannah Sjerven scored her 1,000th career point as the Coyotes downed Denver 89-74 inside the Sanford Coyote Sports Center on Sunday afternoon.

A 12-0 run by the Coyotes (6-3, 2-0 Summit) from the end of the third quarter into the start of the final frame put the Coyotes up by as many as 35 points. Denver (2-8, 0-2) closed off the game on a 28-8 run in the final eight minutes, but it was not enough to catch the Coyotes.

Sjerven finished just shy of back-to-back double-doubles with 25 points and nine boards in game two. She was 12-of-18 from the field. Sjerven’s 1,000th career point came on her final basket of the game with 6:05 to play in the fourth. She sits 37 points away from 1,000 in a Coyote jersey.

Senior guard Chloe Lamb added 24 points on 7-of-12 shooting and four 3-pointers. She grabbed six boards, handed out five assists and tallied one coast-to-coast steal.

Joining the pair in double-figures was classmate Liv Korngable with 13 points, four rebounds and three assists. Freshman Natalie Mazurek put away eight points on 4-of-5 shooting in less than nine minutes.

Denver’s Uju Ezeudu led the Pioneers for the second-straight game with 22 points with 16 of those points coming from the free-throw line. Meghan Boyd, who led DU in scoring during nonconference, added 18 points and five assists.

South Dakota’s winning streaks extend to 20 consecutive league wins, 16 consecutive home victories and 27 consecutive home league victories.

The Coyotes resume action at Kansas City next weekend, playing back-to-back nights on Friday and Saturday with tip-off at 2 p.m. both days.