Box Score SAN FRANCISCO — Kezar Pavilion was not kind to the young Dominican University of California women's basketball team on Monday.

The cold-shooting Lady Penguins went one 15-minute stretch with only three goals field goals and first-place Academy of Art University didn't stop firing in taking 97 shots in a 90-46 Pacific West Conference win.

Sophomore Kayla Valentine led Dominican (3-16/2-7) with 16 points, 10 in the second half. Senior Te Manu Whakataki "Taki" Te Koi added seven points and five rebounds – all in the first half – when the Urban Knights (12-6/8-2) amassed a 30-point lead. Alisa Griggs had 15 of her 23 points in the first half and 11 of her school-record 23 rebounds in the second half for ArtU.

"That's a very talented team LaNay Larson has assembled," said Dominican Director of Athletics Terry Tumey. "They play hard and it wouldn't surprise me if they ended up champions of the PacWest."

A game after Head Coach Brianna Chambers' team scored a season-high 43 points in the first half, Dominican surrendered a season-worst 50 points against the more aggressive, fast-breaking Urban Knights. They launched 49 shots in the first half in great part by grabbing 19 of their school record 37 offensive rebounds, six more than Dominican had total rebounds in the game.

After Te Koi netted a pair of free throws to open the game, ArtU hit its first five shots and reeled off 11 straight points in the span of 2:36. Yet Dominican battled back, putting together an 8-1 run of its own on back-to-back Valentine 3-pointers and a driving lay-up by Te Koi, knifing the Knights' lead to six, 18-12, with 11:53 to go in the half.

However, ArtU had another big more offensive spurt before intermission. After freshman Ariana Flynn converted the Lady Penguins' first offensive rebound of the game into a three-point with 6:57 to go, the Knights scored 11 points in the next 2:41. At one point, ArtU tallied 18 consecutive points before a Te Koi basket, the team's first in five minutes, ended the half with Dominican trailing by 30 points.

TeKoi had five of Dominican's 12 rebounds in the first half. She also had two of her team-high four assists. She was 2-for-4 from the floor in the first 20 minutes. Melissa Wise contributed six points and five rebounds for Dominican.

The Lady Penguins' next game is Saturday in Belmont against Notre Dame Namur University, whom Dominican defeat 66-48 last Saturday in the Conlan Center. Game time is 5:30 p.m. followed by the men at 7:30 p.m.