GAMEDAY Womens Basketball
Arizona 63, California 56
Associated Press
BERKELEY, Calif. - Cate Reese scored six of her 13 points in the fourth quarter, Shaina Pellington added 12 points and No. 18 Arizona beat California 63-56 to win its fifth game in a row.
Kailyn Gilbert scored 10 points for Arizona (11-1, 2-0 Pac-12).
Jayda Curry led Cal (9-4, 0-2) with 13 points - eight in the fourth quarter - but was just 4-of-17 shooting. Leilani McIntosh scored 12 points, Kemery Martin 11 and Ugonne Onyiah added 10.
Curry made back-to-back layups 18 seconds apart in a 14-5 run that cut Cal's deficit to six points when Onyiah made two free throws with 3:35 left in the third quarter and Curry, McIntosh and Martin each hit a 3-pointer in an 13-4 run early in the fourth that made it 50-all when Curry hit two free throws with 6:20 to play. Cate Reese made a jumper, Esmery Martinez took a steal the other way for a layup with 5:36 remaining and the Wildcats led the rest of the way.
Martinez, Arizona's third-leading scorer (12.7 per game) and leading rebounder (9.8), fouled out with two points and four rebounds - both season lows - in 13 minutes.
Evelien Lutje Schipholt made a layup for Cal to open the scoring just 6 seconds in but Jade Loville made a 3-pointer 50 seconds later that gave the Wildcats the lead for good and sparked a 10-0 run the Golden Bears went scoreless for the next 5-plus minutes.
Lutje Schipholt made a layup to cap an 8-2 spurt that closed the first quarter and trimmed Cal's deficit to 12-10 going into the second. The Wildcats, who shot just 31.3% (5 of 16) in the first quarter, hit 10 of 14 from the field in the second, including nine consecutive made field goals to close the half 33-20 lead.
December 31, 2022
| Arizona | ||||||||||||
| Player | Pos | Min | FG-FGA | FT-FTA | 3P-3PA | OR-TR | Ast | Blk | Stl | TO | PF | Pts |
| C. Reese | F | 32 | 6-16 | 2-4 | 0-1 | 4-7 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 14 |
| E. Martinez | F | 13 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 1-4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 2 |
| S. Pellington | G | 33 | 5-9 | 2-8 | 0-0 | 0-3 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 12 |
| J. Loville | G | 31 | 3-10 | 2-2 | 1-3 | 0-3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 9 |
| L. Fields | G | 28 | 1-4 | 1-4 | 1-2 | 2-5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| H. Pueyo | 34 | 2-3 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-3 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | |
| K. Gilbert | 15 | 4-6 | 1-2 | 1-1 | 0-2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 10 | |
| M. Nnaji | 12 | 2-4 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | |
| M. Conner | 2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Totals | 200 | 24-55 (.436) |
12-24 (.500) |
3-8 (.375) |
8-37 | 12 | 1 | 10 | 13 | 17 | 63 | |
| California | ||||||||||||
| Player | Pos | Min | FG-FGA | FT-FTA | 3P-3PA | OR-TR | Ast | Blk | Stl | TO | PF | Pts |
| E. Lutje Schipholt | F | 26 | 3-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 4-9 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| J. Curry | G | 37 | 4-18 | 3-4 | 2-11 | 0-6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 13 |
| K. Martin | G | 35 | 4-12 | 1-2 | 2-7 | 0-6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 11 |
| L. McIntosh | G | 35 | 5-11 | 0-0 | 2-4 | 1-4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 12 |
| K. Ortiz | G | 24 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| U. Onyiah | 18 | 4-9 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 2-7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 10 | |
| C. Langarita | 11 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | |
| A. Bonner | 9 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
| M. Mastrov | 5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Totals | 200 | 22-61 (.361) |
6-9 (.667) |
6-24 (.250) |
10-41 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 18 | 20 | 56 | |
Officials: Melissa Barlow, Teresa Turner, Sydney Mott
