Glendive -- It was a game which was decided before the fans could settle into their new seats at the opening of the Dawson Community College on-campus facility.

Thanks to a quick spurt early, the Miles Community College women's basketball team made all of that fanfare not settle too well on the nearly 1,200 in attendance.

Four Lady Pioneers, led by Region IX Player of the Year candidate Aga Lorenc, scored in double figures as MCC won going away, 80-41.

Roshon Nordlund scored 19 points, Carmen Fleming tossed in 12 and Gosha Debicka added 11 points for the Lady Pioneers, who jumped out to a 43-12 lead at the half, thanks in part to a quick 18-5 start, and in part to a stifling defense, which held the Lady Buccaneers to 21 percent shooting for the game, and a mere 9.2 percent in the first 20 minutes of play.

The beat went on in the second 20 minutes, where nearly every Lady Pioneer scored at least two points.

The news wasn't all good for MCC (5-1 Region IX North, 11-3 Mon-Dak, 22-7 overall), who learned that Sheridan College had beaten Northwest College to claim the sub-region's No. 1 seed. The Lady Pioneers will play their next game against the same team they will face in the Region IX Tournament on March 6 -- Casper. They will head to Lady T-Bird land on Thursday night.

"It'll probably be a really vanilla game," said head coach Dwight Gunnare about Thursday's trip to Casper. "I'm sure (Casper head coach) Angelo (Hill) won't show us anything he's planning on running, and we're certainly not going to, either."

The Region IX Women's Basketball Tournament will be held on March 6-9 on the campus of Otero Junior College in La Junta, CO.