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UNIVERSITY CENTER, Mich.- In its first road game of the season, the 11th-ranked UIndy women's basketball team parlayed a big second half into a 77-59 victory versus Saginaw Valley State Saturday.  The win featured a rare double milestone as junior Samantha Meissel and senior Jessica Canary each surpassed 1,000 career points in the contest.

Canary and Meissel became the 17th and 18th Greyhounds, respectively, the join the 1,000-point club, with each accomplishing the feat in the Hounds' productive second half.  The duo is the fourth pair of UIndy teammates to reach the milestone in the same season but the first to do it in the same game.

UIndy led by just three at the break but out-scored the host Cardinals 44-29 in the final 20 minutes to earn the 18-point win.  Indianapolis shot better than 50% from the floor in the latter period -- sinking 12 of 23 second-half field goal attempts -- compared to just 33% from SVSU.

Late in the first, Saginaw Valley erased a nine-point UIndy lead by scoring ten straight to take a 26-25 advantage with four minutes to go.  The teams traded buckets the remainder of the half until a triple from senior Katie Dewey, who missed the opener due to injury, broke a 30-30 tie with 22 ticks left to give the Hounds the lead at halftime.

UIndy retained the momentum by scoring 11 points in less than three minutes out after the break, with six of those points coming on three-pointers from Dewey and Canary.  The Greyhound lead did not dip below six points the rest of the game and later peaked at 20 with 5:49 remaining.

Canary needed just five points to hit quadruple digits for her career, but the six-foot guard didn't score a point in the first half, doing all her 12 points of damage after intermission.  She offset a 2-for-13 night from the floor with 10 rebounds, six assists and three steals to notch her first double-double of the season and sixth of her career.

Meissel faced the taller task of needing 20 points to reach the milestone, but the all-region performer got more than enough with a game-high 28 points on 10-of-16 shooting.

Dewey finished with 11 points, seven assists, six boards and four steals, while junior Katie Lyons chipped in 10 points in just her fourth career start.

The Greyhounds have a busy holiday week with three home games on the slate.  The ladies face Central State Tuesday night at Nicoson Hall before playing host to the four-team UIndy Thanksgiving Classic Friday and Saturday.