Box Score MINOT, N.D. – Minot State University women's basketball picked a perfect night to have an offensive explosion.

The Beavers broke a modest two-game losing streak and ended a series of games shooting under 40 percent with Minot State's best offensive game of the season.

MSU hit 56.3 percent from the floor and blasted former Dakota Athletic Conference foe Jamestown College 96-74 in nonconference women's basketball in front of 1,002 fans Monday at the MSU Dome.

Sophomore Carly Boag (F, Tamworth, Australia) picked up her fifth double-double of the season with a solid 22-point, 11-rebound, 4-assist night for the Beavers who moved to within two wins of 500 as a program. MSU is 498-458 overall. The win also gave MSU head coach Sheila Green Gerding her 299th career win.

The Beavers (8-7 overall) pushed a seven-point halftime lead to nearly 20 with a 12-1 run to start the second half. MSU held Jamestown College to just six second-half field goals and only 19 for the contest. JC shot 30.6 percent from the floor.

MSU, meanwhile, hit a season-high 49 points in the second half, knocking down 19 field goals in the second stanza alone. MSU had 10 of 12 players score and four reach double figures. The Beavers had a big 48-35 rebounding advantage and finished with 12 steals in the game.

Minot State was sharp from the beginning as the Beavers jumped out to an 8-1 lead to start the game. MSU hit 17 of 28 shots in the first half and scored 47 points before halftime after averaging just 59.4 points in its past five games.

Jamestown College (13-2 overall), ranked No. 15 in the latest NAIA Division II Women's Basketball Coaches' Poll, used 3-point shooting to stay in the game in the first half, hitting 7 of 18 3s in the half – over half of the Jimmies' 40 points. But JC cooled off in the second, going just 1 for 10 and 8 for 28 overall.

Bridget Schuneman paced the Jimmies with 14 points and eight rebounds. She was as solid 10 for 13 from the free-throw line. Maggie Seter hit three 3-poitners for 11 points for JC.

Lauren Safranski (Jr., G, Burnsville, Minn.) joined Boag in double figures with 16 points, Katie Hardy (So., F, Fairview, N.D.) added 15 points and five rebounds and Morgan Klose (Fr., G, Fairview, N.D.) rounded out the double-figure scorers with 12. She added six rebounds, three assist and three steals to her point totals.

MSU has a long break as the Beavers don't play again until the first of a four-game homestand starting with South Dakota Mines Jan. 13 at the MSU Dome. The contest is Alumni Night at Minot State.