Behind a career-high 27 points from Maddie Warren and a Breaunna Gillen near triple-double, Utah Tech women's basketball rolled to a 75-48 home victory over Tarleton on Saturday afternoon inside the Burns Arena.
 
With the win, the Trailblazers wrapped up a 3-1 homestand and improved to 11-9 overall, 5-4 in Western Athletic Conference play. 

How it happened 
Utah Tech led wire-to-wire, opening the game with an 11-3 spurt, with Warren accounting for seven of those points with makes on her first three field goal attempts. Meanwhile Gillen, who had missed the previous two games due to injury, got it going early with four quick points.
 
However Tarleton (5-13/2-7 WAC) managed to keep within striking distance, trailing 31-27 at the half and 33-30 in the early moments of the third quarter.
 
That would be as close as the Texans would get as the Trailblazers rattled off 14-straight points as part of a decisive 26-4 run that turned a one-possession game into a 59-34 Utah Tech lead at the end of the period.
 
Warren came out of the halftime break on fire, draining six of her seven shot attempts with three 3-pointers, and outscored the Texans 15-7 by herself in the frame.
 
Gillen, who tallied in eight points of her own in the third, poured in Utah Tech's first eight points of the fourth quarter to extend the Blazer lead to 31. Utah Tech put on cruise control from there to coast to the easy home win. 
                                                           
Numbers to know
Warren shot 11-of-16 from the floor, including a 5-of-9 clip from the perimeter. The redshirt sophomore guard also tallied seven rebounds, three assists, one steal and a career-high two blocks in just over 32 minutes of game action.
 
Warren's 27-point day tied for the most points scored by a Trailblazer player this season. Twin sister Macie Warren also tallied 27 points in a home win over Seattle U earlier this month (W, 81-65; 1/4/24). 
 
Meanwhile Gillen wound up three assists shy of her third career triple-double, finishing the afternoon with 20 points and game highs of 10 rebounds and seven assists. 
 
Gillen knocked down eight of her 13 shots and made all six of Utah Tech's total free throw attempts for the game.
 
Maggie McCord chipped 13 points on 5-of-11 shooting with three treys and grabbed four caroms, which vaulted her into sixth place on Utah Tech's career rebounding list (450).  
 
Bolstered by an 11-of-13 (.846) clip in their decisive third quarter, the Trailblazers shot 46.8 percent (29-of-62) for the game, which included an 11-of-36 (.306) effort from beyond the arc.
 
Utah Tech also outrebounded Tarleton 44-42 and finished with a WAC season-high seven blocked shots defensively. 
 
Teresa Da Silva led three Texan players in double figures with 13 points. Tarleton shot a paltry 18-of-72 (.250) from the floor and was just 7-of-37 (.189) from the perimeter.
 
Up next
Utah Tech will now begin a stretch that will see the team play six of its next eight games on the road, starting with a two-game trip to Texas next weekend. The Trailblazers head to Edinburg to face UTRGV on Thursday, Feb. 1, followed by a date at UT Arlington on Saturday, Feb. 3.