DAVIS, Calif. — Ioanna Krimili logged her second 20-point game and Leilah Vigil posted her second double-double of the young season, but host UC Davis played its best game of the year, earning its first win with a 79-67 triump over the University of San Francisco women's basketball team Friday at ARC Pavilion.
 
HOW IT HAPPENED

• The teams traded big runs in the opening quarter. UC Davis (1-4) started hot, making seven of its first eight shots to jump out to a 15-6 lead. The Dons (2-3) called a timeout four minutes in to slow down the Aggies, and it worked. Back came USF with a 12-2 run that featured seven points from Krimili – who would finish with 25 – while holding UCD to 1-for-5 shooting and two turnovers. But the Aggies answered with back-to-back 3-pointers and seven consecutive points to lead 24-20 after one.
   
• The Aggies shot even better in the second quarter, making 64.3% of their shots to shoot 56.3% in the first half overall. Early treys from Krimili and Dolapo Balogun tied the game at 26-26, but again UC Davis responded with a big run, making four consecutive buckets for a 10-0 stretch that, like the Dons' first quarter run, featured seven points from the Aggies' own 25-point scorer in Katie Toole.
   
• UC Davis made seven 3-pointers in the first half – one short of its season-high for an entire game entering Friday. And it also outscored San Francisco 22-12 in the paint during the first two quarters. It seemed as if they couldn't miss from anywhere (also going 4 for 5 from the free-throw line before halftime). It wasn't as if San Francisco went completely cold in the first half. The Dons had one of their better shooting performances of the season in the first 20 minutes, shooting 44.1%. But they still trailed by 10, 47-37, at the break.
   
• The Dons slowed down the Aggies significantly in the third quarter, holding them to a 38.5% shooting clip – nearly 20% worse than the first half. But the Dons also cooled down, only shooting 36.4%, and later 21.4% in the fourth. That allowed the Aggies to stay ahead, increasing their lead to 12 through the third and building as much as a 17-point lead in the fourth. San Francisco whittled down its deficit to 10 with less than two minutes to play but couldn't break into single digits.

NOTABLE NUMBERS

• 5: Abby Rathbun grabbed a career-high five steals, mostly on intercepted passes. Krimili also made five 3-pointers, the most she's made in a game to date.
• 34: The Dons were held to their least amount of rebounds in a game this season with 34, but they also held UC Davis to 34 boards. USF has outrebounded or tied its opponent on the glass in four of five games.
• 51.7%: UC Davis' 51.7% field-goal shooting percentage for the game is the highest by a USF opponent since Saint Mary's shot 53.2% against the Dons on Feb. 16 last season.

COMING UP

• San Francisco travels across the 49th parallel and into Canada next week for the Victoria Invitational at the University of Victoria in Victoria, British Columbia, over Thanksgiving Weekend. Fans can find all live coverage links on USFDons.com.