ARLINGTON, TEXAS --- Despite a quick turnaround after Thursday's thrilling double overtime victory, the UT Arlington women's basketball team (13-14, 7-8 WAC) pushed its winning streak to three with an 82-73 win over Abilene Christian (12-14, 6-9 WAC) inside the College Park Center on Saturday afternoon.
 
Starr Jacobs, who eclipsed 1,000 career points in record-speed on Thursday, continued her dominant season in WAC play by registering a team-high 20 points, a game-high 13 rebounds, five assists and a game-high four steals. She also matched a career-best with eight offensive boards, which gives her 33 over the past six games.
 
"I'm so proud of our players to put back-to-back games together for us," UT Arlington head coach Shereka Wright said. "This was huge for us. This was the momentum we have been looking for. Obviously we've been dealing with a lot of adversity with injuries and trying to stay consistent with lineups, and our kids have done a remarkable job staying with the game plan."
 
Abilene Christian, a team that defeated the Lady Mavs 92-72 at their place on Jan. 7, was held in check defensively this time. Madi Miller, who had a game-high 29 points on 7-of-12 shooting from long distance in that game, was held to just five points while finishing 1-of-9 from long distance on Saturday.
 
In fact, Miller buried her lone triple with 5:13 left in the opening quarter to give the visiting Wildcats a 17-6 lead. Following a timeout, UTA went on a 9-0 run over the next 2:14, punctuated by a 3-pointer from De'Sha Benjamin, to pull within two. With just under a minute left, Jireh Washington buried a triple try from the right wing to tie the game at 23 apiece.
 
Abilene Christian regrouped to score the final four points of the quarter for a 27-23 lead as the two teams combined to shoot 20-of-39 from the field in the first 10 minutes. However, another 3-pointer from Benjamin capped a 5-0 start to the next quarter for the Lady Mavs, who got back-to-back layups on fast breaks from Kayla White moments later for a 32-29 lead. Her buckets kickstarted an 8-0 run that pushed the margin to seven, and White added another basket on a jumper with 18 seconds left for a nine-point margin - the largest of the half for UTA.
 
Maleeah Langstaff, who scored a game-high 25 points, trimmed her team's deficit to six with a buzzer-beating 3-pointer to close the half.
 
The teams went back-and-forth to open the second half, but with 2:14 left in the third, Jacobs picked up her fourth foul. Just 17 seconds later, Langstaff's production at the charity stripe pulled ACU within four. However, Taleyah Jones played above her age and scored five straight points over back-to-back possessions to make it 57-48 with 1:10 left. In fact, she scored 10 of her 14 points in the game after Jacobs went to the bench with her fourth.
 
"Taleyah always comes up big in crucial moments for us," Wright said. "This is a freshman doing that, and that is unbelievable. She plays within herself. Not flashy. Just does what she needs to for the team. She's really what we call our glue kid."
 
Benjamin added another triple with 41 seconds left in the quarter for the first double-digit lead of the game for UTA, but Abilene Christian responded with the game's next seven points, pulling within three on an old-fashioned three-point play from Aspen Thornton with 9:47 left in regulation.
 
On the other end, though, the Lady Mavs answered with an 8-0 run that featured scoring from four different players for a 68-57 lead. Another old-fashioned three-point play, this time from Nya Threatt, gave UT Arlington their first of two 13-point leads over the next two minutes, and they never led by fewer than seven the rest of the way.
 
Jones finished second on the team with 14 points on 6-of-7 shooting from the charity stripe. Benjamin chipped in 13 points and three rebounds on 3-of-3 shooting from 3-point range. Washington and White each added 12 while Washington nearly produced her second-straight double-double with a game-high eight assists.
 
Threatt, meanwhile, pestered ACU defensively before finishing with seven points, three rebounds, three assists and a pair of steals, the latter of which was second on the team behind the four from Jacobs. Kamaria Gipson rounded out UTA's scoring with four points and six rebounds over 16 minutes. Nicole Sanfilippo (one assist) and Alexsyah Goudeau (one rebound, one steal) also contributed to the victory.
 
With her production, Jacobs extended her WAC-best double-double total to eight over 15 conference games. It was her 22nd career game with at least 20 points, including her fourth in WAC play, and she notched her 14th career double-double. On top of that, she now has 1,050 career points as she moved past Allison Gray (1,044, 1980-84) and Maryann Abanobi (1,048, 2004-08) into 16th place on the program's all-time scoring list. Next up is Stacy Campbell, who had 1,083 points from 1985-89.
 
Jacobs, with her 13-rebound performance, is now averaging 18.9 points and 10 rebounds to make her the only player in the WAC averaging a double-double in conference play.
 
Another Lady Mav doing special things is White, who moved within 65 points of reaching 1,500 career points. Not too far behind her is Washington, who sits at 1,392 points. Both of those players are in their first and only seasons with UTA as graduate transfers.

UT Arlington improved to 9-7 all-time against Abilene Christian, snapping a three-game winning streak in the series by the Wildcats, who had also won six of the past eight.
 
Saturday's win also elevated the Lady Mavs into sole possession of eighth place in the WAC regular season standings, breaking a tie with Abilene Christian. Should New Mexico State lose to California Baptist later today, UTA could move into a tie for seventh with a win over the Aggies on the road Thursday in Las Cruces.
 
Abilene Christian was coached by Julie (Roewe) Goodenough, who was a guard for the UT Arlington women's basketball team from 1989-91. She averaged 11.6 points, 4.9 rebounds and 2.1 assists per game over 56 career contests, including a team-best 14.3 points per game as a senior. Following her final season, she started her coaching career as an assistant on UTA's staff in 1991-92, and the rest is history. 
 
NOTES

• The Lady Mavs improved to 4-2 in single-digit games in WAC play. They are also 8-2 now when leading at the half.
• With her eight assists, Washington reached 400 in her career. She is now eight points and eight steals away from 1,400 points, 400 assists and 200 steals in her NCAA career.
• Benjamin eclipsed 800 career points and 100 career 3-point field goals made with Saturday's effort.
• With the UT Arlington men's team's win over Stephen F. Austin on the road Saturday, both men's and women's basketball have wins on the same day for the third time this year, joining Nov. 12 and Jan. 14 sweeps.

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