MALIBU, Calif. - Graduate Andjela Bigovic’s first double-double of the season and a new season high from freshman Jana Vesic was not enough to elevate Seattle University women’s basketball (5-16, 1-9 WCC) over the hot shooting Pepperdine Waves (13-9, 4-6 WCC) as the Redhawks fell 63-90 inside Firestone Fieldhouse on Thursday evening.
Vesic led the team in scoring, posting a new season high 19 points on 58.3 percent shooting from the field. Vesic matched her season best seven made field goals, while grabbing a new season high three makes from behind the arc. The freshman guard finished the night with three rebounds, two assists, a block and a steal.
Bigovic scored 13 points, matching Vesic with three makes from three point land, to secure her seventh double-digit scoring effort of the season. The graduate forward grabbed a season high ten rebounds, including three offensive boards, for her first double-double as a Redhawk. Bigovic led the Redhawks with three assists.
Sophomore Sydnie Rodriguez scored nine, going a perfect 4-for-4 from the free throw line. Rodriguez grabbed three rebounds, one block and two steals. Graduate Ella Brubaker and redshirt senior Tamia Stricklin combined for 16 points, with Brubaker also grabbing six rebounds in her return to Malibu. Freshman Chloe Emanga led SU on the defensive end, recording two blocks.
The Redhawks combined for 22 makes from the field, including seven triples while shooting 85.7 percent from the charity stripe. They forced 11 turnovers while keeping their turnovers to five, scoring 13 points off Pepperdine’s turnovers. SU led the Waves in blocks, four to none, and steals, five to two. The Waves shot a blistering 55.6 percent from the field and 52.4 percent from three on the night.
Bigovic led the Redhawks through the opening ten minutes, scoring six points, connecting twice from three point land. Both Brubaker and Bigovic grabbed two rebounds as SU trailed by eight after the first quarter.
Vesic took over in the second quarter, scoring nine points. She went three for five from the floor and perfect from the stripe. Bigovic aided with five points including her third triple of the night. Along with Bigovic, Vesic and Rodriguez connected from three before the break. SU trailed 32-50 at halftime.
Vesic and Stricklin combined for 11 points as Vesic went perfect on both shot attempts from the floor coming out of the break. Bigovic inched closer to her double-double, picking up three rebounds in the third. Rodriguez and Brubaker combined for seven points.
Bigovic accrued her tenth rebound in the fourth, grabbing four total in the final ten minutes. Vesic scored four points to lead the Redhawks in the fourth quarter, going two for three from the field. SU combined for 40 points through the second and third quarters, but the Waves maintained 50 percent shooting throughout the contest to down the Redhawks 90-63.
Seattle U remains in Southern California, traveling to Los Angeles for a meeting with LMU on Saturday afternoon. The Redhawks return to Seattle on February 5 to host San Francisco.
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