GUNNISON, Colo. --- The Western Colorado women's basketball team avenged an earlier loss this year to Regis while setting a program record for RMAC victories in a season as the Mountaineers cruised past the Rangers 73-56 Friday night at Paul Wright Gym.

WCU (16-6 overall, 14-4 RMAC) stays in a tie for second place in the RMAC with Colorado School of Mines and is a win (or a Dixie State or MSU Denver loss) away from clinching a berth into the RMAC Tournament for the second consecutive year - which would mark the first time the program has reached postseason play in back-to-back seasons since 1990.

The 14 RMAC victories breaks the old Mountaineer record of 13 set by the 2006-07 team.

It was far from a sure thing to happen Friday as Regis (10-14, 8-10) defeated WCU 56-52 less than two weeks ago, but the Mountaineers jumped out to a 9-0 lead to start the game and never trailed the rest of the way.

The lead was 21-18 going into the second and cut to one point early in the period before a Hannah Cooper basket in the paint and a Taytem Coleman 3-pointer quickly increased the lead to six.

WCU led 40-32 at the half before a quick 6-0 run to start the third capped by a Jadyn Kanzler basket pushed the lead to 14 points. The lead wouldn't be less than 11 points the rest of the way and grew to as much as 21 as the Mountaineers won their ninth-straight home game - winning those games by an average of 15.2 points per game with all the victories by nine or more points.

Samantha Coleman and Cooper paced the Mountaineers with 13 points apiece with Coleman adding six rebounds. Kanzler had 10 points off the bench while Katie Dalton had nine points, four rebounds, three blocks and three steals.

As a team, the Mountaineers shot 54.2 percent from the field - including 5-for-12 (41.7 percent) from 3-point range. WCU held Regis to 35.6 percent shooting from the field.

The Mountaineers host Colorado Christian at 5 p.m. Saturday at Paul Wright Gym.