Box Score
Stockton, Calif. - Hailie Eackles scored 17 points in the second half, including a pair of clutch threes late as the Pacific women's basketball team won its seventh-straight at home, 71-69, over Portland. Eackles drained five threes to finish with 18 points, while Kendall Kenyon added her eighth double-double of the year with 11 points and 14 rebounds. Unique Coleman added 14 points on 7-of-11 shooting.
Madison Parrish handed out seven assists while Kristina Johnson added four helpers.
Pacific shot 55 percent in the second half (18-of-33), hitting 10 of their first 13 to turn an eight-point halftime deficit into a 12-point lead. But the Pilots answered Pacific's 33-13 run with a 14-3 run of their own to take the lead with 2:40 to go.
But in the final 2:20, Pacific posted eight points on two Eackles' threes and a Kenyon put-back to improve to 14-5 overall and 6-2 in West Coast Conference play.
Portland falls to 4-15 overall, 2-6 in WCC action. The Pilots were led by Cassandra Brown's 23 points while Cassandra Thompson added 20 and Kari Luttinen 15.
Kenyon and Johnson answered lay-ups from Cassandra Thompson with lay-ups of their own, before a three from Madison Parrish gave Pacific a 9-6 lead. Kenyon added a lay-up before Portland received a three from Hannah Mattson and a jumper from Kari Luttinen to tie the game at 16-16.
Mattson added a three as the Pilots stretched their run to 10-0. GeAnna Luaulu-Summers stopped the bleeding with a pair of free throws. Desire Finnie knocked down a jumper, but Luttinen added another trey.
Luaulu-Summers finished while being fouled, but Luttinen matched with an and-one on the other end as Portland led 29-23 with four minutes to go in the half.
Unique Coleman scored on a floater and then added a put-back inside, but the Pilots hit four straight free throws to carry a 36-28 lead into halftime.
Kenyon led Pacific with nine points and nine rebounds at the break, while Luttinen and Cassandra Brown each posted 12 in the first half.
Hailie Eackles opened the second half with a triple, and after a three-pointer from Claire Conricode and a rebound by Kenyon, Eackles struck again as the Tigers knotted the score at 39-39.
Wooton and Eackles traded three-pointers, giving Pacific a 44-42 lead, and Coleman scored on the fast break after a steal, capping a 15-5 Pacific run. Pacific hit 10 of their first 13 shots in the second half, taking a 52-47 lead by the 12 minute mark.
Parrish added an and-one and Coleman drove to the rim to stretch Pacific's lead to nine, at 58-49, and Conricode knocked down another triple for a 9-0 Pacific run.
Portland scored nine-straight points to cut the Tigers' lead to one, at 63-62 with just over four minutes to play. After a charge call on the Tigers, Kaylie Van Loo drove to the rim and finished to put Portland back in front and Thompson's jumper capped a 13-2 run by the Pilots.
Trailing 66-63 with 2:40 to play, Kenyon grabbed an offensive board, posted a put-back and grabbed a steal. In transition, Eackles knocked down a three-pointer from the wing with 1:38 to go putting Pacific in front, 68-66 lead. Brown drove and scored amid contact, tying the score, and the and-one free throw put Portland up 69-68 with 35 seconds left.
Eackles took the hand off from Johnson and canned her fifth three-pointer of the game with 22 seconds remaining for her second game-winning three of the season. Kenyon posted a block inside on Brown with over three seconds to go, but the Tigers missed the front-end of a one-and-one. Parrish intercepted the full-court pass attempt with 0.8 seconds on the clock as the Tigers came away with their seventh straight win at the Alex G. Spanos Center dating back to November.
Pacific connected on 7-of-11 from three in the second half (64 percent), with Eackles hitting 5-of-7 in the second period and Conricode draining 2-of-2. Conricode finished with six points on her only two shots of the game in under three minutes of playing time.
Kenyon's 11-point, 14-rebound performance was her 43rd career double-double, one shy of tying Pacific's career record. She also moved within six rebounds of 1,000 in her career, extending her own program record.
The Tigers are back in action on Saturday, at home against Gonzaga (15-4, 8-0 WCC) at 2 p.m.