Lynchburg, Va. -- The season wouldn't end on their home floor.

University of Lynchburg's women's basketball team made sure of that Monday night with an 84-32 drubbing of Hollins in the first round of the Old Dominion Athletic Conference tournament.

The eighth-seeded Hornets (13-13) leapt out to a 14-0 lead in the early going and never looked back. Lynchburg's win sets up a date with top-seeded Emory & Henry in the ODAC quarterfinals.

Six Lynchburg players scored in double figures in the rout.

"We just wanted to step on the court and make a point," Hornets senior Carolyn Noe, who scored 14 points and grabbed six rebounds Monday, said. "We wanted to make that statement of we aren't losing on our home court our last game here."

Sophomore Kate Kolb scored a game-best 16 points to go with seven rebounds, and Noe, Erin Green (12 points, nine rebounds, three steals), Abby Oguich (11 points), Maggie Quarles (11 points, three assists), and Lizzie Davis (10 points, eight assists, four rebounds) all joined her in double figures.

Lynchburg shot a scalding 10-for-16 (62.5 percent) from behind Wayne Proffitt Court's 3-point arc, and the Hornets were an efficient 33-for-54 (61.1 percent) overall from the field. The Hornets out-rebounded Hollins (11-15) by a 50-17 margin.

"We're really coming together," Noe said. "We're connecting off and on the floor. And I think our last five games show that."

Lynchburg is 4-1 in that stretch with an average margin of victory of 29.3 points in the four victories. The 32 points Hollins managed Monday was the second-fewest Lynchburg has allowed in a game this season.

The Hornets will now set their sights on E&H, which enters postseason play ranked sixth in the South Region in the NCAA's latest regional rankings. The Wasps (21-4) took the lone meeting between the two teams, 67-56, in Lynchburg Dec. 7.

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Lynchburg, however, has recent history on its side. Last season, for the first time in conference tournament history, a No. 8 seed (Shenandoah) won the conference title.

The teams will tip off ODAC quarterfinal play Thursday at 1 p.m. at the Salem Civic Center. Tickets for any conference tournament sessions can be purchased online through Ticket Spicket or at the Civic Center box office.

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