Box Score

SEATTLE (Feb. 12) -- Senior Luv Rattler (Riverside, Calif./Kentlake HS) came off the bench to score a team-high 13 points, but the Central Washington University women's basketball team was unable to keep up with Seattle Pacific University in a 79-58 loss to the host Falcons on Saturday night at Brougham Pavilion.

The Wildcats lost their second consecutive game and fell to 7-14 overall (2-12 Great Northwest Athletic Conference). The Falcons improved to 15-7 overall and 9-5 in conference play.

Central scored the game's first two points and led or was tied with the Falcons for most of the first two and a half minutes before Seattle Pacific went on a 14-0 run that turned the Wildcats' final lead (4-2) into a 12-point cushion. CWU chipped away at its deficit, closing to within four points at the 5:54 mark of the first half, but was then outscored 8-3 the rest of the way before halftime.

That late-half run by the Falcons was the start of a 30-8 run that spanned 14 minutes between the end of the first half and the beginning of the second. The Wildcats trailed 57-31 just after the second media timeout of the final period, and the margin was no closer than 17 points the rest of the way.

Rattler, who came off the bench in her fourth consecutive appearance, made 5 of 12 shots including 3 of 8 from three-point range. She and freshman Daisy Burke (Spokane/Lewis and Clark HS) both made three treys on the night, as nine of the Wildcats' 16 made field goals were from behind the three-point arc. Burke connected on all three of her long-range attempts to finish with nine points, while sophomore Stacy Albrecht (Federal Way/Thomas Jefferson HS) also totaled nine counters.

Nine of the 11 CWU players to appear in the game Saturday scored, but the Wildcats shot a season-low 28.6 percent from the floor. They did convert on 17 of 22 free throw attempts in the contest.

Seattle Pacific had five players reach double figures in the scoring column, and 14 players appeared in the contest for the Falcons. McKayla Gorman led all scorers with 14 for SPU, while Nyesha Sims had a game-high 11 rebounds as the hosts outrebounded CWU by a 43-32 count. Each team committed 19 turnovers on the night.

Central Washington will wrap up a stretch of three games in a five-day span as it hosts Simon Fraser University (5-13, 2-11 GNAC) in a pivotal game with postseason implications on the line. Game time from Nicholson Pavilion is set for 7 p.m.