IOWA CITY, Iowa-- Visiting North Dakota threw a scare at 23rd-ranked Iowa as the Hawkeyes needed a game-ending 21-6 run to pull away for an 83-61 victory in the regular season opener for both teams Friday evening at Hawkeye-Carver Arena. Newcomers were the story for UND as freshman Fallyn Freije heated up quickly with all of UND's first eight points en route to a team-high 14 points.

Junior post Samantha Roscoe added a career-high 13 points off the bench, going 6-for-7 from the floor for North Dakota.

“It was a good game, we played a solid 35 minutes,” UND head coach Travis Brewster said. “That final run was tough but I'm encouraged by the growth some of our younger players have made and being able to compete at this level in Division I is something they have to get used to. We saw some good minutes from Samantha Roscoe and we just have to put together four full quarters.”

Freije book-ended threes with a long baseline jumper to provide all of the scoring in the first three-plus minutes. Iowa could not pull away from the upset-minded UND club, taking its largest lead of the first quarter in the final minute with one of its nine three-pointers in the contest.

UND would out-score the Hawkeyes in the second stanza, battling within a basket at the break, 33-31, on a final-possession triple from Roscoe, the first of her career. North Dakota tied the score at 37-all early in the third quarter on a Makailah Dyer jumper.

Again, Iowa turned to the long ball to counter the attack, building a lead as large as a dozen in the third quarter. Mia Loyd, who played in foul trouble for virtually the entire time she was on the floor, hit a baseline shot at the third-quarter buzzer to trim it to single digits as UND looked to have the momentum.

Roscoe scored on the first possession of the final stanza and had another jumper later in the quarter to make it a five-point game. Following a Freije fastbreak lay-in to make it 62-56, Iowa would embark on a 21-5 run to span the final 6:01 to pull away and run its home winning streak to 19 straight.

Dyer finished with 10 points and five rebounds while Lexi Klabo, despite not scoring, had a team-high six rebounds and a pair of blocks in 17 foul-plagued minutes. Twelve of 13 UND players in uniform played in the contest (Leah Szabla).

North Dakota (0-1) faces the University of Tennessee-Martin Saturday in a 3:30 p.m. tip in the Hawkeye Challenge.