PEORIA, Ill. – Five Bulldogs scored in double figures for the Drake University women's basketball team in a 93-60 victory over Bradley on Friday, Jan. 13 evening in Missouri Valley Conference play at Renaissance Coliseum.
 
Drake (12-4, 5-0 MVC) senior Lizzy Wendell (Blue Springs, Mo.) poured in a game-high 24 points and added a career-tying seven steals and three blocks along with five rebounds and three assists. Wendell has scored 20 or more points in five-straight games, all MVC games, and is averaging league-high 25.0 points per Valley game. Senior Caitlin Ingle (Runnells, Iowa) recorded her 14^th career points/assists double-double with 10 points and 12 assists.
 
Junior Paige Greiner (Williamsburg, Iowa) scored a career-high 13 points behind 5-of-6 shooting, including knocking down three three-pointers. Sophomore Sammie Bachrodt (Wichita, Kan.) also had 13 points while redshirt sophomore Becca Jonas (Independence, Mo.) finished with 12 points.
 
The Bulldogs shot a blistering 51.4 (36-of-70) percent from the floor and 47.8 percent (11-of-23) from behind the three-point line. As a team, they tallied 30 assists, nabbed 16 steals and forced Bradley (5-10, 1-3 MVC) to commit 23 turnovers. Drake won the rebounding battle at 42-37, scored 16 second-chance points and had 31 points off the Braves' turnovers. All 10 Bulldogs scored at least two points and played 10 minutes in the win.
 
At the start of the game, Bradley struck first with a three-pointer, but Jonas answered with her own three-ball as the teams traded baskets. Drake led by eight points at the end of one quarter after Ingle rebounded her own miss and put it back in at the buzzer to put Drake up 25-17.
 
Wendell scored just before the halftime buzzer to increase Drake's advantage to 44-30 at the break. In the first two quarters, the Bulldogs handed out 13 assists on 16 field goals. Ingle tallied a game-high six assists while Wendell nabbed five steals and the team finished with eight to help score 13 points off the Braves' miscues.
 
Bachrodt hit a three-pointer for Drake's first points in the third quarter. Later, the Bulldogs would lead by as many as 27 points in the quarter as the Braves got as close as 22 points with one minute left in the third. Drake, who scored the first nine points of the final quarter, held Bradley to just 12 field goals, including just two three-pointers, in the final two quarters.
 
Freshman Brenni Rose (Shawnee, Kan.) pulled down a career-best eight rebounds. Bachrodt and sophomore Nicole Miller (Walker, Iowa) each handed out four assists while Greiner added three assists and two rebounds. Bachrodt and Ingle each tallied five rebounds while Bachrodt nabbed four steals.
 
Following Friday's game, Drake closes the road trip at Illinois State on Sunday, Jan. 15 at 2 p.m. The game will be online via The Valley on ESPN3 and on the radio on Praise 940.