Dayton Flyers beat Indiana University of Pennsylvania in women's basketball exhibition game

Eleven players scored for the Dayton Flyers women’s basketball team in an 83-46 victory against Indiana University of Pennsylvania in an exhibition game Friday night at UD Arena.

The game took place four days before Dayton opens the regular season at 11 a.m. Tuesday against Alabama A&M at UD Arena. Dayton’s second game comes Friday. It plays Duke at UD Arena.

This was the second exhibition game against a Division I team for IUP, a Division II program which lost 93-44 to Villanova on Oct. 30.

Dayton outscored the Crimson Hawks 29-8 in the first quarter. The Flyers shot 61.2 percent from the field and 38.1 percent (8 of 19) from 3-point range in the game. They had 10 turnovers and forced 20.

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Erin Whalen, Dayton’s leading scorer last season with 13.6 points per game, led the Flyers with 16 points on 6-of-9 shooting.

Araion Bradshaw, Kyla Whitehead and Mariah Perez — three other returning starters — joined Whalen in the starting lineup. Bradshaw had five assists, five rebounds and two points. Perez had four points. Whitehead scored 10 points.

Makira Cook, who started one game last season, also started. She scored 11 points.

Jenna Giacone, the other returning starter, came off the bench and had 12 points. Maliya Perry had 10 points off the bench. Capria Brown scored eight. Tenin Magassa had four points, five rebounds and four blocks.