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PULLMAN, Wash. – Finishing off their four-game homestand to begin the 2018-19 season the Washington State women's basketball team (1-3) dropped a 75-62 decision to UC Davis (1-3) Sunday at Beasley Coliseum. The Aggies were able to take advantage of a big second half to come away with their first road win in Pullman. For the Cougars, the damage was done at the end of the third and the start of the first when UCD put together a 12-2 run in just under two minutes to turn a tie game into a double-digit lead. With the shots refusing to fall for the Cougars, the Aggies extended their lead to as much as 17 points before coming to rest on the final difference. Throughout much of the early going of the game WSU had its chances to take control of the contest, pushing out front of the Aggies only to see UCD rally back including finishing the half with a banked in three-pointer from deep that sent the two teams into the locker room knotted at 31-31. As she has done throughout her career,
Borislava Hristova produced another scoring binge for the Cougars as the star forward scored 25 points while
Chanelle Molina supported with 15 points and four assists. However, the production at the top was not enough to overcome a 34-point outburst by Aggies' fifth-year senior Morgan Bertsch that was bolstered by a 14-point effort out of Nina Bessolo.
Head Coach Kamie Ethridge
"It's disappointing. I'm really disappointed in our effort. I was really impressed with UC Davis. Obviously Bertsch is an amazing player and we knew it on film. We thought it was going to be a hard matchup for us. We thought if she got 34 and we held the others down a little bit we might be ok. We didn't play as well as we should have. Its a disappointing feeling to go into the halftime tied at home and you have a chance to compete a little bit better in the second half and we really just didn't. We came out of halftime and we just did not compete in any way and we did not give ourselves even a remote chance to win in how we did that. That is from top to bottom, I obviously didn't have us ready."
Moments of the Game
Things You Need To Know
- The Cougs finished their homestand 1-3.
- The Aggies win in Pullman was their first in three attempts. UC Davis now leads the all-time series 3-2.
- WSu finished the game hitting just 3-of-17 from distance after making their first two three-point attempts to begin the game. Overall, WSU went 23-of-58 (39.7%) from the floor while the Aggies shot 29-of-61 (47.5%).
- Borislava Hristova has scored 20+ points in three of four games to start the year while going for double-figures in every game to date. The redshirt-junior moved into the Cougars' top-10 in all-time scoring when she hit a three midway through the third quarter, passing April Cooks (2008-12). Hristova finished the game with 1,198 career points with No. 9 Jazmine Perkins (2008-12) and her 1,288 career points in her sights on the scoring list.
- Chanelle Molina scored in double-figures for the third-consecutive contest. She also grabbed a team and career-high seven rebounds.
- Morgan Bertsch's 34 points were the most scored against the Cougars since Kristine Anigwe from Cal netted 30 on Feb. 23, 2018.
- Michaela Jones made her collegiate debut in the fourth quarter, playing the final 1:35 of the game.
- WSU hits the road for the first time on the year as the Cougars head to Northridge, Calif. to play in the Warner Center Marriot Thanksgiving Basketball Classic hosted by CSUN. WSU takes on the host Matadors to begin the tournament Friday, Nov. 23 at 7:30 p.m.
