Jamie Pickens scored a career-high and Andrew Cook logged his second double-double of the season as Carroll swept Montana Western 77-62 (women) and 81-74 (men) on the road Thursday.
Pickens poured 10 points into a 23-8 Saints second quarter on her way to 32 points, a second 30-plus-point performance this season. Her 13 rebounds extended a double-double streak to six games and was her 13th of the 2023-24 campaign.
Maddie Geritz added 13 points, four rebounds, and three assists, while Willa Albrecht and Kyndall Keller each scored 11 points.
Western’s Shainy Mack knocked down a pair of 3-pointers and totaled a team-high 21 points.
Jordan Sweeney, the Frontier Conference’s leading scorer entering play, notched 16 points on 5-for-20 shooting.
Freshman Maddy Moy grabbed 10 rebounds to accompany six points.
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Carroll’s seventh-straight victory, paired with Rocky Mountain College’s 58-47 triumph over No. 16-ranked Providence, propelled the Saints (15-3, 6-0 Frontier) two games clear of the Argos in the Frontier standings.
Western (11-8, 3-3 Frontier) slipped into a third-place tie with MSU-Northern.
In the men’s game, Carroll’s Cook posted the seventh 20-plus-point game in his last eight with a game-high 27 points on 10-for-18 shooting, adding 12 rebounds, four assists, a steal, and a block.
Carroll (11-8, 5-1 Frontier) is 7-1 in those contests and kept pace with first place Montana Tech (15-4, 5-1 Frontier) on Thursday as the Orediggers beat Northern 89-54 in Butte.
Kendall Moore scored 15 points for Carroll, Zane Foster chipped in nine, and Shaheed Muhammad and Murat Guzelocak each contributed eight points off the bench.
Carroll redshirt sophomore James Lang did not play on Thursday night with an apparent injury. Freshman Josiah Cuaresma made his first career start instead, compiling two points, four rebounds, and an assist in 16 minutes.
Western’s Jalyn Stepney paced the Bulldogs (9-10, 2-4 Frontier) with 16 points, while Abi Adedo and Jacksen Burckley scored 11 points apiece.
Carroll shot 50.9 percent (29-for-57) from the field for the game and outrebounded Western 41-33 (11-9 on the offensive glass).
Carroll will be back in action on Saturday, in Helena, against Providence. Western travels to Havre to face the Lights and Skylights.