Box Score The University of Regina's women's basketball team played a near-perfect second half to give the Cougars a 69-54 win over the Laval Rouge et Or on Friday night in the quarterfinals of the 2010 CIS Championship.

Laval led by as many as 10 in the first half, but the Cougars scored 11 consecutive points to start the second half and outscored the Rouge et Or by a 27-15 margin in the third quarter.

Regina clamped down on defence in the fourth, allowing just eight Laval points and coasting to a 15-point victory.

"We had a great second half when we needed to have a great second half," Regina head coach Dave Taylor said. "Our game plan was to rebound on defence and attack hard on offence, and we really executed after halftime."

Second-year guard Joanna Zalesiak was stellar for Regina, scoring a game-high 23 points and adding seven rebounds and four steals. Third-year post Brittany Read had the game's lone double-double, scoring 16 and pulling down 10 rebounds.

Elyse Jobin and Myriam Lamarre both led Laval with 12 points. Chanelle St-Amour was just 2-for-20 for the Rouge et Or, but scored eight points and had a team-high nine rebounds.

Gabrielle Gheyssen hit three key three-pointers for the Cougars in the second half, ending up with 11 points. Lindsay Ledingham scored 10 and added seven rebounds in a game-high 39 minutes on the floor.

The No. 4-seeded Cougars will now match up with No. 1 Simon Fraser in the second round. Tip-off is scheduled for 8 p.m. EST (7 p.m. CST) in Hamilton and will be broadcast live by both Access7 and SSN Canada (www.ssncanada.ca).

NOTES: The Cougars now have a 3-2 all-time record against Laval in the national tournament ... when asked what he said to the team to help spark the second-half turnaround, Taylor said, "Our staff played the good cop/bad cop routine with the girls at halftime. I drew the role of the bad cop and I played it pretty well."