The Dayton women's basketball team delivered a dominant performance in dismantling conference opponent Richmond 83-31.

The Flyers won with a great team effort, as 13 of their players scored in the game. They were led by senior Kendel Ross, who had 16 points.

The teams came into the game Saturday with matching 14-4 records, but UD played at a different level than the Spiders. The Flyers had the game in hand from the start, opening up a 23-10 lead by the under 12 minute timeout on the strength of eight early points by Ross.

"I was so proud of us on both ends of the floor," Head Coach Jim Jabir said. "I thought our intensity was great, our execution was great and we just beat up a really good team."

After that the game could be summed up as a series of runs by Dayton. Between each media timeout, the Flyers increased their lead until the game was out of hand.

Dayton went on an 8-3 run to make the score 31-13 when the ball went dead under eight minutes. By the end of the half, the score was 45-15, giving UD a 14-2 run to close.

Nine different Dayton players scored in the first half. The most damage was done inside by Ross and sophomore Casey Nance, who combined to go 10-11 from the field for 12 and 10 points, respectively.

Ross and Nance's 10 field goals were more than the entire Richmond team was able to score in the half. Richmond went an abysmal 6-35 from the field, good for 17 percent.

"I think we've got a lot of talent," Jabir said. "When we're playing hard it's a weapon that we can really use; we have a lot of tools, and that's how I want us to play."

The second half started the same way. Dayton jumped all over the Spiders early with a 9-1 run to make it 54-16 and forced a Richmond timeout. Junior Kristin Daugherty and sophomore Justine Raterman made their presence felt early in the second half, each scoring six points in the first six minutes.

Meanwhile, Dayton's defense stayed strong and Richmond's shooting woes continued. Dayton's defense on inbounds plays was especially impressive. The Flyers forced three five second violations and Richmond called a timeout on another inbounds play to keep from turning the ball over.

The runs kept coming from the Flyers, who went on a 14-7 spurt to go up 68-23 with 9:32 remaining. The game was well in hand and Dayton began to take more time up on its possessions to finish the game more quickly. Still, by the under eight minute timeout, the score was 72-24.

Richmond could not find the basket on the offensive end and had no answer to what UD was doing on offense, which was a deadly combination.

It was a truly dominant performance by the Flyers, who out did the Spiders in every statistical category kept in basketball. They shot better from the field, the three point line and the foul line, had more rebounds, more steals, more assists, more blocks and less turnovers.

The win was an important one for the team, which had suffered a disappointing loss to St. Joe's during the week.

"We were really unhappy with our performance on Wednesday at St. Joe's," Jabir said. "I think we corrected some things and that's what it is supposed to look like."