Women's basketball: Dayton Flyers beat UMass for seventh straight victory

Erin Whalen scored 21 points to lead the Dayton Flyers to a 69-60 victory against Massachusetts on Wednesday at the Mullins Center in Amherst, Mass.

Dayton (13-3, 4-0) won its seventh straight game and remained alone in first place in the Atlantic 10 Conference.

Whalen made 8 of 17 shots from the field, including 4 of 11 3-pointers. She has scored 20 or more points two games in a row, three times in A-10 play and five times this season.»

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Tenin Magassa also had a big game for the second time in the last three games. She had 17 points on 8-of-11 shooting and added nine rebounds, four assists, two steals and two blocks. She scored a career-high 18 points a week earlier in a 65-57 victory at La Salle.

Dayton led throughout the game, but UMass (14-4, 2-2) got as close as six points, 57-51, halfway through the fourth quarter. A free throw by Jenna Giacone, who had nine points, a basket by Magassa and a free throw by Makira Cook put the game way.

Dayton returns home to play Fordham (12-4, 3-1) at noon Sunday.