MERCED, Calif. - The University of California, Merced women's basketball team is 9-0 in California Pacific Conference play for the first time in program history after a dominant 101-31 win over Pacific Union College on Tuesday night inside the Joseph Edward Gallo Gymnasium.

The Bobcats (15-7, 9-0) ninth straight win in league play one-ups their previous record of eight straight originally set in the 2015-16 campaign. 

The Bobcats also set a program record for margin of victory with the 70 point win. UC Merced had a pair of 66-point wins (11/4/18 & 11/15/21) prior to tonight.

Adding to the milestones, head coach Sarah Hopkins-Chery earned her 100th career win.

Tuesday night marked the Bobcats second time in the last five games hitting the scoring century mark and fourth time overall this season. 

Andrea Rogers led five Bobcats in double figures with a career-high 22 points on an 85% (11-13) field goal percentage. Rogers is the fifth Bobcat ever to make at least eleven field goals in a game. She also grabbed eight rebounds and tied her career-high with six steals. 

Mikayla Mabie, like Rogers, delivered a stellar all-around performance. The senior upped her season-high with 20 points and broke her own program single-game record with 13 assists. Her one of a kind performance was capped off with eight rebounds and five steals.

Rainah Smith finished with 12 points, while Haylee Owen and Deyliana Lewis pitched in ten points each. Smith passed Aubrey Hayes for seventh in program history with her 37th career double figure scoring performance.

Owen, who added six steals and four assists to her scoring efforts, also moved up on the program's all-time record charts. Owen passed Mia Shannon for fifth all-time in scoring with 868 career points. She also passed Deja Jackson for fourth all-time with 203 career assists.

Damilola Sule finished with eight points and five rebounds prior to leaving with an injury early in the third quarter.

Other individual notables include six points from Marisse Jackson and four assists from Madison Hotchkiss.

The Bobcats shot 51% (44-86) as a team and 80% (8-10) from the foul line. The 44 made field goals is a program record, beating the 43 made shots against Northwest Indian College on October 23, 2021.

Hopkins-Chery's team scored 48 points off 37 PUC turnovers and had 31 second chance baskets off 25 offensive rebounds. The Bobcats outrebounded the Pioneers 44-20 on the night.

To no surprise, the Bobcats scored the game's first eight points off either a turnover or an offensive rebound. The Bobcats intensity only picked up from there and the home team led 25-2 at the end of the first quarter.

The Bobcats were quick to extend their lead to 30 points in the second frame and went into intermission up 47-13.

A 22-0 run spanning over the first five minutes of the third quarter pushed the lead north of 50 points. Mabie scored the first two baskets during the explosion. Smith had eight of her 12 total points over the duration. The run culminated in a 69-13 Bobcat lead. The Bobcats built their lead to as many as 64 points in the period.

The lead didn't extend beyond 64 points until the final two minutes of the night as Rogers continued to find herself all alone in the front court receiving the ball from Mabie. After Rogers, Owen then reaped the benefit of a Mabie pass and cashed in a triple for Mabie's record-breaking 13th assist. The three-pointer also pushed the Bobcats north of the century mark and was the final basket of the contest.

Owen has knocked down a three-point field goal in ten consecutive games.

UC Merced's average margin of victory in conference games this year is 37.2 points. With one game left, the Bobcats have essentially locked up the California Pacific Conference's all-time average margin of victory record.

The Bobcats final regular season game is Senior Night on Monday, February 21 against Simpson University. Tipoff inside the Joseph Edward Gallo Gymnasium is scheduled for 5:30pm.