Gabriela Jaquez scores a career-high 30 in UCLA’s blowout win over Bellarmine

Gabriela Jaquez had career highs of 30 points and 12 rebounds for her first double-double, Lauren Betts and Charisma Osborne also had double-doubles and No. 4 UCLA rolled to a 113-64 win over Bellarmine on Sunday at Pauley Pavilion.

Betts, a 6-foot-7 sophomore transfer from Stanford, added 22 points, a career high, and 11 rebounds and Osborne had six three-pointers for 24 points plus 10 rebounds. The Bruins (3-0) had a dominating 56-24 rebounding advantage.

Londynn Jones had five threes and 21 points for UCLA. Kiki Rice, the fifth starter, had eight points and 11 assists.

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Gabriela Jaquez and Kiki Rice scored 18 points as No. 4 UCLA turned a fast start into an easy 90-52 victory over UC Riverside to improve to 2-0.

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Claire Knies scored 23 points for the Knights (0-2) and Cam Browning had 13.

UCLA scored the first 13 points and with Osborne hitting two threes in the final 30 seconds it was 26-9 after one quarter.

“We have unlimited ceiling,” UCLA coach Cori Close said. “... The gap between our potential and our habits keeps closing. We obviously have a lot of talent but let’s get tighter.”

Bellarmine matched the Bruins with a 24-point second quarter, which didn’t please Close.

“Our defense, we have a ways to go,” she said. “We have got to be able to be more consistent. ... I just believe so much in what they can become but right now our consistency, our habits, have something to be desired.

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“We’re going to have to learn into that. I told them, ‘Look, we can either have the discipline to get it done or I can make you really uncomfortable until we get it done. One of the two.’ ”

UCLA responded by outscoring Bellarmine 33-17 in the third quarter and 30-14 in the fourth.

The Bruins finish their four-game homestand against Princeton on Friday before going to the Cayman Islands to play Connecticut a week later.