Box Score ANCHORAGE, Alaska – For the first 15 or so minutes of its non-league game against the No. 12 ranked NCAA Division II team in the country Friday night, the Dominican University of California women's basketball team hung around.

But then host University of Anchorage Alaska showed why they were a near unanimous preseason pick to win the Great Northwest Athletic Conference while the Lady Penguins showed their youth. The Seawolves (3-0) outscored Dominican 42-14 in the second half en route to a 91-36 victory and their 67th consecutive week in the national rankings.

Kimi Nakamura topped the Lady Penguins (0-3) with eight points on Friday but she and her teammates had another off night shooting. Nakamura was aggressively attacking the Anchorage defense but she was 2-for-14 from the floor and Dominican as a team shot only .204. UAA connected on 49 percent of its attempts.

“The first half was great,” said Dominican Head Coach Brianna Chambers. “I was very happy with the intensity. We were better. But we didn't come out with the same intensity in the second half. It was a learning experience for us.”

After redshirt freshman Lauren Hyatt scored to make the score 4-2 two minutes into the game, the Lady Penguins went cold as the Seawolves scored 14 straight points. Dominican trailed 18-4 when Hyatt scored again with 13:12 left in the first half.

The Lady Penguins played catch-up at that point and stayed relatively close. A 3-pointer by sophomore Kayla Valentine with 4:22 remaining in the first half closed Dominican to within 13 points, 35-22, but Anchorage Alaska reeled off another streak of 14 unanswered points to seize a 49-22 advantage at halftime.

It didn't get better for the Lady Penguins in the second half either. They missed 18 consecutive shots at one point and Anchorage scored 21 points in a row during Dominican's cold streak.

Valentine and freshman Ariana Flynn had five points apiece for the Lady Penguins at half, but didn't score in the second half. Freshman Danielle Yamauchi and Hyatt also had five points for Dominican while Hyatt and Jasmine Green both grabbed seven rebounds. Sarah Nelson, a 6-foot-4 freshman, blocked a game-high three shots for the Lady Penguins, one more than Hyatt.

The two teams play again late Saturday night in Anchorage.