HONOLULU – The Hawai'i Pacific University women finished the regular season with a wire-to-wire PacWest Conference clobbering of Notre Dame de Namur 86-45 on Saturday afternoon at the Moanalua High School Gymnasium.
 
The Sharks (20-8, 18-4) to tie for second in the PacWest, while the Argonauts (9-17, 8-14) finished the season with their five-game win streak snapped. HPU moved into second as Azusa Pacific defeated Dominican (Calif.) 94-70 on Saturday, but HPU will be the third seed in the PacWest Conference Tournament as Dominican held two wins over the Sharks.
 
The Sharks jumped out to a 9-2 lead on the Argos and never looked back.
 
Senior Samantha Lambrigtsen of Oregon, Ill./Oregon HS celebrated Senior Day by leading the Sharks with 25 points with seven rebounds, while senior Breanna Mackenzie of Melbourne, Australia/Box Hill double-doubled with 10 points and a season-high 13 rebounds to go with three steals. Sophomore Alysha Marcucci of Melbourne, Australia/Marist-Sion hit four 3-pointers on the way to 16 points with six boards and two steals, and junior Starr Rivera of Honolulu/Roosevelt added 11 points off the bench hitting all four of her shots from the floor including 3-of-3 from the arc.
 
Rachel Pau'u led the Argonauts with 12 points and five rebounds. Anaya Rodisha came off the bench with nine points and Jordan Rodrigues added eight points.
 
The Sharks shot 43 percent from the floor (28-of-65), hitting 10-of-26 (39 percent) from the 3-point arc. HPU also made 20-of-26 (77 percent) from the free throw line. NDNU was held to 13-of-37 (35 percent) from the field, and just 3-of-16 (19 percent) from the arc. The Argos made 16-of-32 (50 percent) from the foul line. HPU outrebounded NDNU 50-22 and turned the ball over just nine times to the Argos 19.
 
The Sharks and Argos played a slow scoring first quarter with HPU getting a pair of treys from Marcucci on the way to a 9-2 run, then held NDNU to just another Pau'u layup to close the period up 9-4.
 
But in the second, HPU started with an 8-2 run and finished the quarter with a 13-3 run that was capped with a Lambrigtsen 3-pointer at the halftime buzzer for a 43-19 lead.
 
The Sharks continued to add to their lead in the fourth quarter, building a 33 point lead on a Mackenzie layup before a pair of free throws closed the quarter with HPU doubling up NDNU 62-31.
 
HPU expanded its lead to 44 points three times in the fourth quarter as all 10 Sharks in uniform scored and HPU won by 41, 86-45.
 
The victory gave HPU its third straight 20-win season and sent the Sharks on a high note to the PacWest Conference Tournament at Dominican's Conlan Center in San Rafael, Calif. HPU will play in the quarterfinal on Thursday at 3 p.m. HST (5 p.m. PST) against sixth seeded Concordia Irvine. The winner of the Thursday quarterfinal meets second seeded Dominican in the semifinal on Friday at 3 p.m. HST (5 p.m. PST). The PacWest Conference Tournament Championship Game is slated for Saturday at 2:30 p.m. HST (4:30 p.m. PST).