(ASHLAND, Ohio) – Walsh had little trouble as it handled Urbana by a score of 89-60 in the Holiday Inn Express Classic hosted by Ashland University Saturday. The Cavaliers (6-2) is scheduled to play St. Joseph's College in the event tomorrow. The Pumas fell to Ashland, who plays the Blue Knights (3-4) tomorrow.

This was the first meeting between the two schools since the 2011-12 season when Maria Marchesano was at Urbana as the head coach and Ciara Geiger was a star player for the Blue Knights.

A total of 12 players reached the scoring column and all 14 recorded at least rebound for the Cavaliers. Offensively Alex Hochstedler and Sarah Stephenson scored a game-high 14 points. Emily Westphal added 12 points off the bench for her best game of her young career.

Stephenson was 5-of-6 from the field and 4-of-5 from behind the arc. Hochstedler was 6-of-8 with a pair of treys.

The normally high-octane Urbana offense didn't have an answer for a stout Walsh defense tonight. The Blue Knights, who came in with an average of 80.5 points per game, were well below that mark as Walsh forced them into the majority of their 24 turnovers.

Urbana did give Walsh a scare early on in the first quarter as it jumped out to a 14-9 lead after a tip-in by Danie Shafer. That's about the time the Cavs heated up as it closed the first frame on a 20-8 run capped by a Kelsey Funderburgh trey which gave her 1,000 points in her Walsh career. She originally passed the mark at Clarion, but that included 57 points at Morehead state her freshman year.

That momentum surge at the end of the first quarter carried into the second as Allison Butler gave the Cavs their first double-digit lead of the game with a 3-pointer at the 8:04 mark. Urbana didn't come within eight points the rest of the way and trailed by 21 at halftime.

The Cavs' 89 points broke the previous season best by 10 points which came last week against Northwood. Walsh also set season highs in 3-pointers made with 11 and rebounds with 52. The Cavs edged Urbana by a 52-38 margin on the glass and pulled down 20 offensive caroms which led to 22 points.

Tomorrow's game against the Pumas is set for a 2 p.m. tip-off. It'll be the Cavaliers final game before New Year's.