WESTVILLE, Ind. – Cassidy Deno (Otterbein, Ind./Benton Central) and Darien Thompson (Anderson, Ind./Anderson) led the way as the No. 15 Purdue University Northwest women's basketball team handled league foe Holy Cross College, 91-77, Tuesday at the James B. Dworkin Center.

Deno (Otterbein, Ind./Benton Central) netted a game-high 23 points on 9-of-13 from the field – including 5-of-8 from deep – and Thompson (Anderson, Ind./Anderson) added 22 points on 8-of-16 from field and 4-of-9 from 3-point land.

Purdue Northwest improved to 10-3 overall and remained perfect in Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference play with a 6-0 mark, while Holy Cross fell to 4-8 overall and 3-2 in the CCAC.

Senior Katie Wampler (Scottsburg, Ind./Scottsburg) (Scottsburg, Ind./Scottsburg) added 14 points on 4-of-7 from the field and 6-of-7 from the free-throw line, junior post Ellie Michalski (Mukwonago, Wis./Mukwonago) (Mukwonago, Wis./Mukwonago) added 12 points and seven boards and freshman Shae Rhonehouse (Fremont, Ind./Fremont) (Fremont, Ind./Fremont) had 11 points to round out the Pride leaders.

PNW led 17-13 at the end of the first quarter and then outscored the Saints by a 21-13 margin in the second to take a 38-26 lead at halftime. Wampler and Thompson led the way in the first half, each scoring nine points and Deno added seven.

The Pride would go up by as many 20, 57-37, after a three-point play the old-fashioned way by junior forward Jessica Kiser (Noblesville, Ind./Noblesville) (Noblesville, Ind./Noblesville) at the 4:35 mark in the third quarter. The Saints would make a charge, cutting that lead to nine, 66-57, early in the fourth quarter, but back-to-back 3s by Deno and Thompson sent PNW back to a 13-point lead with 7:57 left.

Rhonehouse would later join the 3-point party, draining her lone make from deep with 4:06 to play to put the lead back to 20, 83-63.

PNW shot 50.8 percent (31-of-61) from the field compared to 42.4 percent (28-of-66) for Holy Cross, and the Pride made 10-of-22 from 3-point land compared to 8-of-26 for HCC.

The Saints won the rebounding battle, 40-30, but the Pride capitalized on 14 HCC turnovers, scoring 22 points while committing just nine giveaways.

Tagin Schultheis led the Saints with 21 points and Keysha Streater had 19 in the loss.

Purdue Northwest returns to action Saturday, Dec. 10, when the Pride travel to Robert Morris Illinois for a CCAC contest in Arlington Heights, Ill.