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Newcomer Ariona Gill has great game in UTEP women's debut win over Western New Mexico

The UTEP Miners women's basketball team had a satisfying victory over WNMU on Saturday, Oct. 27, 2018. Bret Bloomquist/El Paso Times

A good sign in any exhibition scrimmage is when a team leans on someone old and someone new.

That was the formula for a retooled UTEP women's basketball team in a 66-45 win Saturday against Western New Mexico that marked the first time on the floor in a Miner uniform for six of UTEP's 10 players.

The old hand was the ever-reliable senior Jordan Alexander, as the power forward scored a workmanlike 17 points to go with six rebounds, two steals and a drawn charge.