COLLEGE PLACE, Wash. – Alysse Ketner's game-high 12 points paced Whitman College's offense during Thursday night's 74-33 non-conference victory over host Walla Walla University, but Ketner was aided in the attack by five teammates who added at least eight points each during the runaway victory in the Wolves' Alumni Gymnasium.

The win is the Missionaries' fourth in a row and improves their season mark to 4-2 while WWU drops to 0-12.

A 15-0 run was the early driving force during Thursday's cross-town rivalry win, but the impetus of that stretch was a strong defensive performance. Walla Walla Univ.'s Emily Fields dropped in a jumper to pull the Wolves within five at 9-4 before Lauren McCoy sank the second of two free throws to trim the lead to just four.

A Whitman miss and defensive rebound the next time down the court put the ball back in the Wolves' hands but the first of six one-and-done's kept the home team without the opportunity for second-chance points while the Missionaries began lighting it up at the other end of the floor.

A Ketner jumper started the run after Katie Gray pulled down a defensive rebound of a Lauren Pernu miss. Whitman ripped down five more defensive rebounds and registered a pair of steals -- both by Casey Poe -- effectively limiting WWU's scoring chances to six shots in eight possessions. Meanwhile, Gray, Poe, Kendra Winchester and Ketner were pouring in jumpers for Whitman which closed the 15-point spurt emphatically with an Eve Goldman three-pointer.

Fields' jumper for Walla Walla came at the 15:05 mark of the first half and the Wolves' next basket from the floor didn't come until Michaela Garcia's field goal with 6:22 to play before the halftime break.

What had started as a tight, if not somewhat sloppy, contest opened up and cleaned up quickly for Whitman which took its 9-5 advantage and stretched it to a 40-16 lead at the half.

By game's end the Missionaries had recorded a powerful 47-32 edge in rebounding, limited Walla Walla to a 10-for-48 night (21 percent) from the floor and forced 20 turnovers. Offensively for Whitman it saw 11 players score, 10 come down with at least one rebound -- Ketner just missing the double-double with a team-best nine boards -- and it finished the night hitting 44 percent (27-of-62) from the floor including 11-of-24 (46 percent) from beyond the three-point arc.

Hailey McDonald and Hallie Buse were the leaders from long range with three trey's apiece but Goldman and Chelsi Brewer were right behind with two each.

Walla Walla was led by Garcia's 10 points and McCoy's game-high 10 rebounds during the loss.

Whitman continues non-conference action with its next outing, a 5 p.m. home contest Saturday at the Sherwood Athletics Center against Lewis-Clark State (Idaho) College from the NAIA.