Box Score
ARCATA — Three players scored in double figures for Cal State San Bernardino in an 87-65 loss to Humboldt State, Saturday night.
The loss drops the Coyotes (12-11, 8-10 CCAA) to a seventh place tie with Sonoma State and Cal State Dominguez Hills in the CCAA. The conference tournament only accepts the top eight in the conference tournament, meaning one of those three teams may not make it. San Francisco State is just a game ahead of the tie in sixth at 9-9.
Amanda Ragains scored a team-high 18 points, hitting 4-for-7 from beyond the arc. The junior scored 14 of those points in first half.
Kymberly Ooten also added 14 points while
Shannon Gholar scored 12.
Ragains also pulled down six rebounds. Ooten grabbed nine boards, one short of a double-double, and added three assists and two steals.
Humboldt State's Brittney Taylor scored a game-high 26 points on 11-of-14 shooting from the field and was 4-for-7 from the charity stripe. Four other Lumberjacks scored in double figures as 64 points came from Taylor and company.
Andrea Bobic was just a rebound and three assists shy of a double-double with11 points, nine boards and seven assists.
The Jacks shot lights out from the field in the first half, going 17-for-31 (.548), 6-for-9 from downtown (.667). HSU finished at 48.3 percent from the field after going 0-for-6 from 3-point range in the second half.
Humboldt dominated in the paint scoring almost half of their points in the lane with 42, with 18 coming off second chances. The Coyotes scored just 16 points in the key.
CSUSB led for a majority of the first half after using a 13-4 run, to lead 13-8, early in the game. The Coyotes took their biggest lead of the game at the 12:46 mark at 19-13 and led up until 8:09 in the half when HSU took a 22-21 lead on an 8-2 run.
CSUSB retook the lead, at 23-22 with on an
Ashlee Ford layup, but the Jacks ran away with it by closing out the half with a 27-5 run. It was all HSU from that point on.
The road trip is just half way over for the Coyotes as they now head to Carson, Friday, to play Cal State Dominguez Hills before traveling to Cal State L.A. Saturday.