The golden bears held the mountain lions to 4-30 (13.3%) shooting and just 12 points in the first half on their way to their 12th-straight victory. #8 concordia university (12-0) remained unbeaten with a 68-47 win over uc-colorado springs (5-8) at the auraria events center in denver, colo. At the metro state christmas classic.

prior to building a 21 point, 33-12 halftime lead, the golden bears found themselves trailing 5-2 four and a half minutes into play.

but a 15-1 run behind six points by senior point guard katie laviolette (manitowoc, wis.) and four from junior forward jessica tewes (hudson, wis.) sparked the run that was capped off by a three-pointer by sophomore guard kali olstad (elgin, minn.).

laviolette went on to record her fourth double-double of the season, finishing with 13 points and 12 assists after scoring 10 in the first half on 5-6 shooting.

k.olstad would drain 3-5 from three-point range, scoring nine points off the bench for cu.

concordia opened up the score to 27-9, making it a 25-4 run that spanned just over 12 minutes of the first half.

the lead didn't fall below 17 points the rest of the way as the golden bears even stretched the lead as high as 28, 45-17 and 48-20 midway through the second half.

the only other player who scored in double-figures was junior forward candace olstad (elgin, minn.), who scored 10 points and had five rebounds. She was 5-9 from the floor.

concordia finished the game shooting 50.0% from the floor (28-56) while limiting uccs to 22.5% (16-71) shooting. Concordia made as many shots (16) in the first half as the mountain lions made in the entire game.

while the golden bears dominated to the tune of a 32-10 advantage in the paint, they were outscored 18-2 in second chance scoring.

concordia outrebounded uccs 49-45 despite losing 19-7 on the offensive glass. Senior center amanda behnke (eagan, minn.) led the rebounding effort with 11. Four others had five rebounds each.

concordia forced 19 turnovers while allowing only eight mountain lion assists.

the mountain lions had just one player in double-figures, emily jenkins with 13 points. Jenkins was also the only uccs player to have more than one assist, with two. She posted a game-high five steals and had seven rebounds.

the golden bears look to continue to build on their best start in school history as they close out the final two games of their seven game road stand at northern state and u-mary in northern sun action on jan. 4-5 in aberdeen, s.d. And bismarck, n.d., respectively.

box score - cu 68, uc-colo. Springs 47