For the sixth time in seven games, the Cyclone women’s basketball team faced a far outmatched opponent and easily throttled them.

Saturday’s victim was the Western Illinois Westerwinds, coached by former Missouri assistant Leslie Crane and led by standout forward Rhonda Gondringer.

The Westerwinds entered Hilton Coliseum with a 3-2 record and left with a painful 93-53 loss.

“I’m really pleased with our effort,” Cyclone head coach Bill Fennelly said. “I’m as hard as anybody on this team, but when it’s time to praise them, I’m ready, and today is one of those days.”

Western Illinois opened the game with a pair of quick three-pointers and trailed by only five at the 11-minute mark, but a 22-7 run by the Cyclones put the Westerwinds behind for good.

Beside a four-minute lull at the end of the first half, Iowa State was dominant offensively.

The team used a 44-11 run in the second half to build its lead to as much as 46 points.

“I saw it in the shootaround,” Fennelly said. “I knew they were ready to play today.”

As usual, Stacy Frese led all players with 19 points including a trio of monumental three-pointers.

Her first, just 2:07 into the game, tied Tara Gunderson’s all-time Cyclone career three-point record.

Her second, with 18:19 remaining in the game, broke the same record.

Finally, her third, with just over 15 minutes remaining, gave her exactly 200 for her fabled Cyclone career.

“It’s nice, I guess,” Frese said. “I didn’t even realize I was close.

“All along, it’s been my teammates throwing me the ball,” she said. “I just shoot it.”

Her coach didn’t beat around the bush in describing the effort of his point guard.

“Stacy Frese is the best perimeter shooter in the country,” Fennelly said. “To break that record is a great accomplishment for her.”

Despite Frese’s milestones, however, the game would belong to another Cyclone senior.

With her name plastered all over the many agronomy banners adorning the rafters, Monica Huelman took the court for the first time in 10 days and put on a clinic.

The powerful forward and team leader converted all three of her field goal attempts, including a pair of treys, hit on all three of her free throws and collected four rebounds, two steals, an assist and a blocked shot.

All of this without committing a turnover in the span of just 10 minutes.

“Mo shocked me,” Fennelly said. “And I mean that in a nice way. You’re talking about a kid that, literally, hasn’t done anything in 10 days.

“Everyone wants 10 days off now,” he said.

Huelman said she’s still experiencing pain and swelling in her knee from arthroscopic surgery performed prior to the season, but she’ll continue to try to play through it.

For most of her teammates, Huelman’s presence on the court was at least as important as her statistical contributions.

“For some reason, we haven’t been cohesive yet this year,” Frese said. “Something clicked today and we just played a lot better.”

Fennelly said, “What you saw today was part of the equation when Monica’s playing and not assistant coaching. Everything’s different when she’s out there.”

In addition to Frese and Huelman, the Cyclones got quality minutes out of just about everyone on their bench.

Taking advantage of a rare start, Desiree Francis collected 13 points and a pair of steals and joined teammate Megan Taylor to lead all players with seven rebounds.

Freshman Lindsey Wilson also performed admirably, scoring 13 points and dishing a game-high five assists, despite playing under 20 minutes.

The low post, which has been up and down so far this year, showed some improvement against the Westerwinds, as Angie Welle and Gintare Cipinyte each managed six rebounds and combined for 13 points.

“Angie bounced back a little bit today,” Fennelly said. “She’s had a couple of poor games, and I was impressed with her out there.”

Gondringer of Western Illinois was held to just 11 points and five rebounds in the game, with six of her points coming with the game well out of hand in the waning moments.

Her coach wasn’t happy with the performance but saw the Cyclone defense as a big reason for it.

“I was disappointed in several kids who didn’t fight as well as they needed to out there,” Crane said. “Rhonny [Gondringer] didn’t play nearly to her potential, and I credit Iowa State for that.”

ISU has just a couple days to catch its breath before a tough matchup at Drake on Wednesday and the much-anticipated clash with the Hawkeyes in Ames on Saturday.