COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – On a night when Allie Navarette's streak of seven straight 20-plus scoring nights came to an end, it just didn't matter.
 
Alex Carlton scored a career-high 18 points, Morgan Lewis had 14 points and eight rebounds, Tosjanae Bonds had 13 points and Peyton Taylor hit a crucial late 3-pointer as the MSU Denver women's basketball team held off UCCS 67-58 for its ninth win in its last 11 games.
 
"We just found a way to win," MSU Denver coach Tanya Haave said. "It was great to win even though Allie was having an off night. They really keyed on her, so we went away from and did some different things and other people really stepped up."
 
Navarette still wound up with a double-double of 13 points and 10 rebounds as MSU Denver improved to 10-5 overall and 9-4 in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference to inch its way into fifth in the league.
 
"They were doubling and tripling everybody inside, including Allie," Haave said. "Allie is competitive and is going to try to score. She made an adjustment to that in the second half."
 
Carlton hit 4 of 5 from 3-point range and is now at 42.1 percent (24 of 57) from deep for the season.
 
"Alex was just outstanding," Haave said. "We got her on some transition in the second half and we ran a sideline out-of-bounds play for her, but she's the kind of player who knows she needs to look to score more on a night when others aren't."
 
MSU Denver, continuing to play without multiple starters, jumped out to a 7-0 lead, but UCCS rallied for a 10-10 tie. The Roadrunners rebuilt the lead to 31-20, but didn't score for the final 7:02 of the first half as UCCS got within 31-28 at the break.
 
The Roadrunners pushed it back to 11, at 43-32, on a Navarette 3-pointer, but there was UCCS back within 57-55 with 3:32 to go.
 
The lead was 59-56 with 1:17 remaining, then Taylor hit the clutch 3 to double the lead with 40 seconds left.
 
"Shot clock running down, broken play, and she hit the 3 that sealed it," Haave said. "That was huge."
 
Carlton, Bonds and Lewis combined to make 5 of 6 free throws in the final 22 seconds to salt it away.