Senior guard Katie Stone scored 16 points and the No. 8-ranked Tommies took over sole possession of the MIAC women's basketball lead with Wednesday night's 67-45 home win over Augsburg.

The Tommies (19-3 overall, 13-2 MIAC), who ran their win streak to nine, lead St. Mary's by one game with three to play in the 18-game conference schedule. St. Thomas closes the last eight days of the regular season with games Feb. 13 at Bethel, and home tests with St. Olaf on Feb. 17 and St. Mary's on Feb. 20.

St. Thomas raced to a 31-6 lead in the first 13:31 of the game and went on to spoil a homecoming for first-season Auggie head coach Ted Riverso. A St. Thomas Athletics Hall of Fame coach and later an eight-year Minnesota Gopher assistant, Riverso was working his first game on the UST campus since he retired after a highly-successful 15-year run as Tommie coach from 1984-99 marked by a 337-80 record.

Hannah Steinhaus led with 10 points for the Auggies (12-10, 7-8).

For UST, Kaitlin Langer had 14 points, 10 rebounds and three blocks, and Lauren Fischer added 11 points. The Toms shot 51 percent from the field, made 10 treys, and had a 32-21 rebounding edge.