NEWARK, DE -- The University of Delaware rolled to its third straight 20-plus point victory as Tyresa Smith scored 20 points and Kyle DeHaven (at right; photo by Bob Burleigh) came off the bench to add a season-high 17 points to lead the Blue Hens to a 79-45 Colonial Athletic Association women’s basketball victory over Towson Sunday afternoon at the Bob Carpenter Center.

Smith, who hit of 15 shots from the field, posted her seventh 20-point game of the season while adding four rebounds, four assists, and six steals and DeHaven drained all four of her three-point attempts while adding four assists as the Blue Hens (14-2, 5-0 CAA) defeated Towson (11-4, 2-3) for the 13th time in the team’s last 14 meetings.

Smith moved into 10th place on the UD career assists list with 269 and now stands as the only player in school history to rank in the school’s top 10 for points, steals, and assists.

Delaware, coming off consecutive wins of 66-38 at UNC Wilmington last Sunday and 65-43 over Northeastern Thursday night, extended its winning streak to four games, won its ninth straight home game and 20th in the last 21 games since last season at the BCC, and captured its eighth straight regular season conference game.

Chrissy Fisher added 11 points and a team-high seven rebounds as Delaware shot 32 of 60 from the field (53.3 percent), knocked down 7 of 11 three-point attempts, and forced 29 Towson turnovers.

Towson (11-4, 2-3 CAA), which lost for third time in the last four games after starting 10-1, had a tough shooting night, converting just 16 of 49 shots from the field (32.7 percent), including 3 of 16 shooting from beyond the three-point line.

No Tiger reached double figures as Shanae Baker-Brice led the way with nine points while guard Holly Mahan added eight points and a team-high nine rebounds. Baker-Brice and fellow starter Kelly Robinson, who had seven points and five rebounds, both left the game in the second half with injuries.

Delaware has now held three straight opponents under 45 points for the first time since defeating St. John’s 59-44, Loyola 54-27, and Manhattan 63-42 in consecutive games in December, 2003.

The game was a hard-fought one early as the first half featured four ties in the first eight minutes of play. Delaware broke away for a 14-9 lead on a Smith layup with 12:34 left, but Erin Gaston and Baker-Brice converted a layups for Towson to cut the deficit to 14-13 with 11:17 remaining.

However, it was all Delaware after that as the Blue Hen outscored the Tigers 27-3 over the next eight minutes, including an incredible 20-0 run over a span of seven minutes of 25 seconds, to go up 41-16.

During the streak, Delaware converted seven of nine shots from the field while holding Towson to 0 for 8 shooting and forcing seven turnovers. Towson finally ended the drought on a layup by Robinson with 1:11 left in the half to send the game into intermission 41-18 in Delaware’s favor.

The Hens never led by less than 21 points the entire second half and upped the lead to as much as 40 points at 77-37 on a jumper by Kristina Gineitis with 1:01 left to play. The Hens led by at least 30 points the final 7:24 of the game to win it going away.

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