No. 14 Arizona State holds Yale scoreless for 9 minutes in 82-46 win

No. 14 Arizona State routs Yale 82-46

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Becca Tobin scored 14 points and No. 14 Arizona State held Yale scoreless for more than 9 minutes in the first half en route to an 82-46 victory Thursday night.

With the game tied 2-all, Arizona State (2-0) scored the next 16 points as Yale missed 12 straight shots and had six turnovers. It could have been a lot worse, but the Sun Devils were nearly as sloppy with eight turnovers during the spurt.

Melissa Colborne finally ended the Bulldogs’ drought with 9:18 left in the first half when she hit a hook shot in the lane to make it 20-4. Yale came as close as 22-9 when Ericka von Kaeppler hit a jumper, but Arizona State scored the next eight points and led 34-20 at halftime.

The Sun Devils started the second half with an 11-3 run to put it away. Yale got no closer than 16 the rest of the way.

Megan Vasquez scored eight points to lead Yale (2-1).

Kimberly Brandon and Alex Earl each added 12 points, and freshman Janae Fulcher had a season-best 11 for the Sun Devils, who head to No. 9 Xavier on Saturday. Arizona State will have to do a much better job taking care of the basketball because the Sun Devils had 28 turnovers Thursday.

This was a far different Arizona State team than the one coach Charli Turner Thorne led to the Trenton regional finals last season. The Sun Devils lost six seniors and leading scorer Dymond Simon is out for the year as she rehabs a knee that she injured in March.

The game against Yale was a chance for Turner Thorne to coach against her mentor, Chris Gobrecht. Turner Thorne was a graduate assistant at Washington when Gobrecht was the head coach. Sun Devils associate head coach Meg Sanders played for Gobrecht while she was coaching at Cal State Fullerton.