SEATTLE - Out scoring Gonzaga (11-5, 3-0) through two quarters, Seattle University women’s basketball (4-10, 0-3 WCC) fell to its cross state foe 85-59 inside the Redhawk Center on Friday evening.
Three registered double-digit scoring efforts with graduate Ella Brubaker leading the team with 15 points, matching her career high with three triples on five attempts. Brubaker finished the night shooting 45.5 from the floor while picking up two rebounds and two steals on the defensive end.
Freshman Jana Vesic scored 13 coming off the bench shooting 55.6 percent from the field. She connected on her lone attempt from three point land, combining for five made field goals.
Redshirt senior Tamia Stricklin scored 10 points on four made field goals, including one three. She grabbed four rebounds, two steals and handed out three assists in 29 minutes of action.
Junior Lucija Milkovic scored eight points, going perfect on her two attempts from behind the arc. Sophomore Sydnie Rodriguez led the team with six rebounds, including three offensive boards, and four assists, one assist shy of her career high.
The Redhawks connected for 22 field goals, and shot 40.9 percent from three to go for nine makes from three point land. They forced 16 turnovers, scoring 15 points off of the Zag miscues. SU’s defense led Gonzaga with 10 steals to the Zags seven, while picking up four blocks to GU’s three.
Rodriguez led the Redhawks in the opening ten minutes of action with her, shooting fifty percent from three, but Gonzaga opened up with the early lead scoring 28 points through the first quarter. Seattle U pivoted the momentum in the second quarter, holding the Zags to 33.3 percent shooting from the floor and 25 percent from three while they shot 47.1 percent from the floor and 42.9 percent from three.
Vesic guided the scoring surge in the second quarter, scoring five. Stricklin scored four while both Vesic and Milkovic went perfect from three. The Redhawks forced four steals before the half to only trail the Bulldogs by ten into the break.
The third quarter mimicked the first, with Gonzaga building an early lead scoring 27 to SU’s 10. Once more the Redhawks would out score the Zags over the course of ten minutes with Brubaker scoring 10 points in the fourth quarter. Vesic assisted, scoring four points and shooting 50 percent from the floor. SU shot 50 percent from three but could not overcome the deficit, falling to Gonzaga 85-59.
The Redhawks return to action on Sunday, hosting the WCC’s other Washington resident, Washington State on Sunday at the Redhawk Center at 1 PM.
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