So Tuesday night’s win was no ordinary victory for Weber State women’s basketball, who cruised past Westminster College 61-47 at the Dee Events Center.

After defeating Nevada and Utah Tech last week, topping Westminster gave the WSU women their third consecutive victory. That’s what constitutes a winning streak, according to fictional baseball manager Lou Brown.

It has happened before, but not for some time. The Wildcats (3-7) delivered a three-game winning streak for first-year head coach Jenteal Jackson, the program’s first such streak in 2,111 days — or just more than five years and nine months — the first time since Bethann Ord’s Wildcats finished the 2017-18 regular season on a three-game spree.

“It’s been a delicate balance, I would say, of realizing that reality and what they have experienced for several years, and then trying to shift that mindset, get them to believe they can win and put them in situations daily in practice where they are successful,” Jackson said. “Then trying to build on that to not only win, but to continue and be more dominant each day so they feel what that’s like.”

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Senior forward Daryn Hickok, the reigning Big Sky player of the week for her performances last week, led WSU with 18 points on 4-of-6 shooting from behind the arc.

Hickok has scored 60 points in her last three contests and is 9 of 15 from the 3-point line in the last two — equaling in two contests the number of triples she made last season.

Visiting Westminster — where Jackson graduated and coached for years — had an edge, energy-wise, in the first five minutes of the contest, taking an 8-6 lead and drawing a WSU timeout.

The Wildcats didn’t allow the Griffins to score for the next eight minutes and held the visitors without a field goal for the next 13 minutes.

Senior wing Laura Taylor assisted a Hickok 3-pointer and a Jadyn Matthews cutting layup on consecutive possessions to open the second quarter to cap a 14-0 run for a 20-8 lead.

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Taylor kept the rally going with a 3 of her own, Matthews scored in the post and Kaiija Lesane made two free throws to end a 21-2 extended run late in the second frame.

Ashton Adamson knocked down a wing 3-pointer in the final minute for the final points of the first half, sending Weber State to the locker room with a 32-14 lead.

WSU held Westminster to 6-of-22 shooting in the half.

“We were in the right spots, we were doing the right things and we were really sold out to the game plan,” Jackson said. “I thought we could’ve been better on the defensive end tonight, we definitely gave up some stuff and had some mental lapses — maybe that’s because it’s finals week.”

The Griffins twice found pushes to keep Weber State honest in the second half.

Westminster opened the third quarter with a 13-9 advantage to make it 41-27 before WSU answered with two Matthews buckets and a Lesane drive to quickly get the margin to 48-27.

After Weber stretched its lead to 23 points on two Kennedy Eskelson drives, the Griffins put together a 10-2 run in the fourth quarter to bring the score to 56-41. But WSU’s two star forwards put the game to bed, with Hickok dropping home a 3-pointer and Matthews scoring inside again to restore a 20-point margin with 3:30 left.

WSU subbed out its starters from there.

Matthews finished with 16 points and nine rebounds for Weber State. Lesane added six points, three rebounds and four steals, and Taylor dished three assists.

For Westminster, Jaycee Lichtie and Maunayia Harrigfeld each scored 10 points.

Winning three straight to stop a seven-game, road-heavy skid, Weber State returns to the road with a Saturday trip to Air Force (6-4).

“Seven straight is tough for anybody, but they showed up every day, they worked hard and I’ve just been really proud of our group’s response overall with that rough stretch we had,” Jackson said. “My group’s really honed in and we’ve just been extremely specialized and detailed in practice.”