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The Saint Vincent women's basketball team rolled to a Presidents' Athletic Conference win over the visiting Thiel Tomcats, 82-37.
 
Saint Vincent opened the game on a 10-0 run during the opening minutes of the game. Madison Kollar keyed the run with the opening basket, a spinning lay up at the 9:20 mark, and an and one basket and free throw with 7:42 left in the quarter. Thiel got on the board with a short jumper just under the 7-minute mark, but the Bearcats answered with eight more points of their own. Steals on back to back possessions led to fast break lay ups by Kayla Slovenc put SVC up 16-2 and forced a Tomcat timeout. The timeout did little to stop Saint Vincent's momentum as they closed the first stanza up 26-3.
 
A sloppy start to the second quarter saw only one basket in the first four minutes of play, a Kollar layup two minutes into the action, putting SVC up 28-3. Madison Weber sparked some offense with a layup just over four minutes into the quarter. From there Erin Giancola corralled an errant Tomcat pass and laid it in at the 4:15 mark before securing an offensive rebound and bucket the very next possession to put SVC up 34-3. The Bearcat defense stood tall the rest of the frame allowing only two points, entering half time with a 39-5 lead.
 
Thiel split a pair of free throws to open the half before a Jenna Lafko pass found a wide open Kollar for three giving Saint Vincent a 42-6 lead. Giancola converted on an 18-foot jumper then found a cutting Kollar to open widen the margin to 40 in favor of SVC.  Bri Van Volkenburg drove to the hole and finish through contact to cap the 13-point run with the Bearcats up 52-6. Thiel scored on their next four possessions, but Saint Vincent kept pace and entered the final quarter leading 57-14.
 
The Tomcats came out swinging in the fourth opening with a three pointer and splitting a pair at the line to trim the Saint Vincent lead to 39. The Bearcats answered with baskets on three straight trips down the court to keep Thiel at bay, 63-18. With the game in hand a barrage of bench scoring, including back-to-back threes from Anna Betz and Megan Kallock, had the Bearcat lead up to 50 with 2:22 remaining in the game. From there the teams traded blows to the final score, 82-37.
 
Madison Kollar paced the offense with 18 points while shooting 70% from the field. Erin Giancola grabbed 8 boards and Kayla Slovenec snatched 5 steals to lead the Bearcat on the defensive end.
 
With the win SVC improves to 14-6 (10-1 PAC) on the year. The Bearcats will be back in action Saturday, February 8 when they take on Westminster College at home in the Robert S. Carey Center. Tip-off is scheduled for 4:00 pm.