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DETROIT (1/26/2013) -- On the strength of a 22-8 run to end the first half, the Detroit women's basketball team was able to cool off the UIC Flames, 74-68, on Saturday afternoon at Calihan Hall. The win was the 12th straight at home on Dick Vitale Court, tied for the 11th longest in the nation.

Senior Demeisha Fambro was the high scorer ending the game with a season-high 20 points. She was 6-of-10 from the field, tying her career high with four 3-pointers, while also pulling down six rebounds.

Sophomores Shareta Brown and Senee Shearer each had 15 apiece, with Brown adding eight rebounds and four assists and Shear draining three 3-pointers and corralling four boards. Brown also reached 1,000 career points early in the game, becoming just the 18th player in school history with 1,000 as well as the quickest Titan to do it recording the milestone in her 51st career game.

Senior Yar Shayok was also in double figures with 10 points, and junior Megan Hatter tied her career-best with nine boards and had seven points, all coming in a crucial time in the second half.

The game was tied at 68-all with 1:43 left when UDM (10-7, 3-2 HL) ended the contest with six-straight points, the last four on a pair of free throws by Fambro and one each from freshman Rosanna Reynolds and Shearer.

It got to that point as UIC (6-12, 2-3 HL) erased a one-time nine-point Titan lead, 46-37, with 16:40 left. The Flames started chipping away after that and closed to within three, 49-46, but a jumper by Shayok and a three by Shearer pushed the Titan lead back to eight, 54-46, with 11:36 left.

Detroit then had to hold off another charge as the Flames trimmed the advantage to just one, 56-55, but that is when Hatter scored seven-straight points to raise the lead back to eight, 63-55, at the 6:38 mark. UDM had to hold off one more UIC comeback attempt as the Flames tied the game at 66 and then again at 68 before the red, white and blue was able to deal the final knockout blow.

UDM shot 47.2% from the field and outrebounded the Flames, 36-25, although UIC did find a way to outscore the Titans in the paint, 30-26.

Detroit didn't get off to a slow start offensively, but UIC – who came into the game last in the HL in shooting – hit 10 of its first 18 from the field to take an eight-point advantage, 23-15.

That is when the Titans turned it on with a 15-2 spurt to regain the lead, 30-25, with 4:08 left in the first. Brown had seven in that run, while Fambro and Shearer with three and Shayok netted two.

The Flames would score six-straight points to once again pull ahead, but baskets by Fambro and Brown put the Titans up, 34-31. Fambro the ended the first-half scoring with a three as the red, white and blue took a 37-31 lead at the break, a half that saw Detroit shoot 65.2%.

Detroit will now look to sweep its three-game homestand on Thursday as the Titans look to avenge an early season loss to Cleveland State. Game time is set for 7:00 p.m. That game will be "Hometown Heroes Night" as all police, fire, military and emergency personnel will get in FREE with proper ID and their family receiving a special $3 ticket discount as part of the Wounded Warrior Project.

Game Notes:
Cassandra Pack (1983-87) – the Titans all-time leading scorer – reached 1,000 points in her 57th career game and as a junior...Prior to the game, the Titans honored Shayok for her 1,000th career point...Shayok moved past Katie Solner (2002-06) for 15th place on the Titan all-time scoring list with 1,044… Brown began the day second in the nation in scoring (24.1) and field-goal percentage (60.0%)… It is the first time since the 2006 (Solner and Lindsay Pasquinzo) season that Detroit has had a pair of 1,000-point scorers in its line-up…UDM outrebounded its opponent for the 15th time this season…Fambro posted her fourth-straight game in double figures and 10th time this season… Hatter tied her career high in rebounds for the third time... UDM was outscored in the paint for just the fourth time this season…Detroit had seven 3-pointers, the third-straight game with seven or more treys after going four straight game not hitting more than five.