Macie Warren led four Trailblazers in double figures with 20 points as Utah Tech women's basketball routed UTRGV, 91-55, on Thursday afternoon inside the UTRGV Fieldhouse.
 
The Trailblazers pushed their win streak to three-straight and moved to 12-9 overall, 6-4 in Western Athletic Conference play. 

How it happened 
Behind the early hot shooting of Maggie McCord, Utah Tech broke an early 9-9 tie with a 12-2 run en route to a 23-16 lead after one quarter of play. McCord accounted for 10 of the Blazers' first 23 points on a perfect 4-of-4 shooting with a pair of 3-pointers.
 
UTRGV (4-15/3-7 WAC) tried to keep close after the Vaqueros tallied six-straight to make it a one-point game at 23-22 to start the second period. 
 
However Utah Tech quelled any hopes of a Vaquero home win as the Blazers rattled off a 16-2 rally to race out to a commanding 39-24 advantage with 3:45 to play in the first half.
 
Breaunna Gillen, who scored 11 points in the frame, knocked down consecutive 3-pointers as part of a personal 8-0 run to kick-start the run. Meanwhile Warren drained a pair of perimeter jumpers of her own as Utah Tech outscored UTRGV 23-7 over the final eight-plus minutes of the half to take a comfortable 46-29 lead into the halftime break.
 
The Trailblazers kept that vibe going out of the locker room, opening the second half with a 21-5 spurt to break the game wide open at 67-34 at the 6:30 mark of the third quarter. 
 
Utah Tech hit seven of its first eight shots with five more 3-pointers over that three-plus minute span. The Blazers would extend their lead to as many as 40 points in the fourth quarter before settling for the 36-point road victory. 
                                                           
Numbers to know
Warren hit on 6-of-14 from the floor with four 3-pointers and finished with five rebounds, three assists and two steals.
 
Meanwhile, twin sister Maddie Warren tallied 16 points on 6-of-10 shooting with four treys of her own to go with a co-team high six boards and four assists.
 
Gillen enjoyed one of her better shooting performances of the season as she wound up with 19 points on 8-of-12 from the field, including a perfect 3-of-3 from the perimeter. Gillen also collected six caroms, four assists and two steals, which moved her into a tie for third place on Utah Tech's career steals list (120). Gillen (1,406 pts), who is the program's all-time leading scorer, surpassed the 1,400-point plateau on a lay-in late in the second quarter. 
 
McCord finished with 15 points on 6-of-7 shooting with three 3-pointers. The fifth-year guard was also one of three Blazers to pull down six rebounds and she dished out three dimes for good measure. 
 
Utah Tech shot better than 50 percent for the second time in its last three games as the Blazers went 34-of-66 (.515) from the field with a WAC season-high 16 made 3-pointers (16-of-35; .457).
 
While the Trailblazers scored 48 of their 91 points from beyond the arc, they also recorded 36 points in the paint (18-of-31 2FG), and went 7-of-9 (.778) at the foul line. 
 
Utah Tech outrebounded UTRGV 45-32 and collected 18 assists on its 34 made field goals with only eight total turnovers.  
 
Tierra Trotter, Charlotte O'Keefe and Kade Hackerott each had 10 points to pace UTRGV. The Vaqueros shot an even 30.0 percent (18-of-60) from the floor and was just 7-of-28 (.250) from beyond the arc.
 
Up next
Utah Tech wraps up its current two-game trip to Texas with a Saturday matinee at UT Arlington. Tip-off at the UTA Teague Center is slated for 2:30 p.m. (CT).