PLYMOUTH, N.H. – The Castleton University women's basketball team dominated from start to finish on Wednesday night, coasting to a 69-39 win over Plymouth State at Foley Gymnasium in Little East Conference action.
 
The Spartans (10-4, 3-2 LEC) shot 36.6 percent in the game (26-of-71) while holding Plymouth (4-9, 0-7 LEC) to just 21.4 percent from the field (12-of-56). The Spartans hit 5-of-19 from three and 12-of-18 at the free-throw line, while Plymouth hit 4-of-16 from deep and 11-of-15 at the line. Rebounds were nearly even with Castleton holding a 48-46 advantage. The Spartans controlled the turnover battle, committing just 10 turnovers while Plymouth State coughed it up 25 times. Castleton outscored the Panthers 30-4 off turnovers.
 
Kelly Vuz scored a game-high 21 points and snagged five rebounds for Castleton, hitting 7-of-14 from the floor and 4-of-8 from three in the game. Elise Magro added 18 points along with seven steals, six assists and four rebounds. Liz Bailey amassed 12 points with five rebounds while Felicia Poirier had six points and six boards. Emily Adams scored five points with a game-high nine rebounds. Delaney Whitehead had seven rebounds.
 
Plymouth got nine points apiece from Lauren Keller and Jalen Cook, while Keller, Cook, Sophie George and Sabrina Vlahovic had six rebounds each. Allison Ingalls added six points for PSU.
 
The Panthers scored first in the contest on a jumper by Autumn Nelson, but Castleton bounced back with an 11-0 run that kept the Panthers off the board for more than five minutes. The string was broken by another jumper to make it 11-4, but back-to-back buckets by Vuz and Magro helped Castleton go into the second quarter with a healthy lead, 15-5, after a Panther free throw.
 
The second quarter began as the first one ended, with Castleton stringing together points in bunches. Vuz hit a three to start the scoring before Bailey made a free throw and Magro added a layup. After a lone Panther free throw, three different Spartans scored to push the lead to 27-6. Plymouth hit two unanswered three-pointers to make it 27-12, but a layup by Bailey and another three by Vuz snuffed out the Panthers' run and established a 32-12 edge for Castleton. The Panthers scored the final four points before halftime, making it 32-16 at the midway mark.
 
Castleton opened the second half on a 7-3 run, and a later 9-0 run in the third quarter pushed the gap to 48-21. A number of free throws by both teams the remainder of the quarter made it 52-27 Spartans through three quarters.
 
The final frame went in Castleton's favor as well, with the Spartans outscoring Plymouth 17-12 in the final 10 minutes. The Spartan bench had seven of the fourth-quarter points, with Maggie McKearin dropping in two layups for four points alone in the frame. McKearin's late layup and a final three by Adams gave the game its 30-point gap to end at 69-39.
 
Castleton is back at home on Saturday afternoon at 1 p.m. when it hosts UMass Dartmouth in Glenbrook Gym.