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IMMACULATA, Pa.- The Immaculata women's basketball team won their fourth consecutive game for the first time since the 2014-15 season on Saturday afternoon as they led wire-to-wire and defeated the Keystone College Giants (5-14, 4-7 CSAC) by a score of 59-48 in a Colonial States Athletic Conference (CSAC) tilt.  The Mighty Macs improved to 7-12 overall and now 7-3 in CSAC play, which places them in a tie for fifth with Gwynedd Mercy.
 
Senior Tamyra Laws had a huge game for the Macs as she scored 23 points and pulled down a career-high 27 rebounds for the massive double-double.  Sophomore Amber Ballinger also reached double figures with 13 points and five boards.  Junior Theresa Walsh had a solid game overall with nine points, eight rebounds, and three steals, and freshman Annie Kohutka scored seven.
 
The Mighty Macs went to the free throw line a season-high 34 times and made 23 attempts (67.6%), while holding Keystone to 22% (13-for-59) from the field, a season-best defensive effort for IU after holding the Cabrini to 17-of-77 shooting in Wednesday's win.
 
IU started the game very well as they scored 11 of the first 13 points and held a nine-point advantage just over four minutes into the game.  Laws scored the first six points of the game for the Macs before Walsh hit a lay-up and Kohutka buried a three-pointer from the corner off an inbounds play.
 
Keystone whittled the lead down to four points at 11-7, but the Macs locked the Giants down defensively and did not allow another point the final 3:45 of the first quarter.  Ballinger, junior Mamako Johnson (2 points, 2 rebounds), and Kohutka all hit a pair of free throws at the charity stripe, and Kohutka had a great take to the bucket to get another two for IU and put them in front 19-7 at the end of a strong first quarter.
 
The Giants scored the first two points of the second quarter, but the Macs went right back to work as Walsh converted a lay-up and senior Tess Kieffer (2 points, 1 rebound) hit a pair of free throws to grow the advantage to 14 points at 23-9, the largest of the game.
 
However, IU would get just four points the rest of the half, all from Laws and Keystone battled to get within five points at 27-22 as the teams went to the locker room.
 
The Mighty Macs did a great job of managing the lead the entire second half as the Giants never got closer than five, but Keystone kept battling and IU's lead never got larger than 12.
 
With Keystone threatening to make a push with seven minutes to go and IU holding a 30-24 lead, Ballinger hit a big three-pointer to grow the lead to nine.  Minutes later, a fast break lay-up by Laws put the lead back into double digits at 37-26.
 
Keystone got it back to six again at 37-31, but Walsh scored four straight and sophomore Bailey Krewson (1 point, 2 steals) hit a free throw and the Macs took a 42-33 lead to the fourth quarter.
 
In the fourth, Laws made sure right away that a Keystone comeback wouldn't happen as she scored on back-to-back possessions to push the lead up to 13 points.  The Giants would get no closer than seven points and the Macs iced the game away at the line for the 11-point CSAC victory.
 
Laws now stands at 994 rebounds for her career and will likely eclipse 1,000 boards on Wednesday at Neumann at 6 p.m.