Box Score STOCKTON, Calif. - Despite four players in double-figures, the Pacific women's basketball team fell to Marquette Saturday at the Tiger Turkey Tip-Off Thanksgiving Tournament, 89-75.
Unique Coleman scored a season-high 11 points, while Chelsea Lidy hit double-figures for the fifth straight game with 20 points. Callie Owens and Emily Simons each added 10 points. Najah Queenland tallied seven points with seven rebounds, while Simons grabbed eight boards to go with her 10 points.
But Marquette shot 56 percent for the game (34-of-61), and the Tigers couldn't overcome a 20-4 run over 7:08 spanning the end of the first quarter and start of the second.
The Golden Eagles out-rebounded Pacific 45-36 and held a 50-28 advantage in points in the paint.
Chelsea Lidy answered a Danielle King lay-up with a lay-in of her own. And after a pair of Marquette buckets, Simons finished inside twice to pull Pacific within 8-6, but the Golden Eagles answered with a lay-up in transition from Shantelle Valentine. Finnie promptly drained a three-pointer, and Lidy converted an and-one for a 12-10 lead. Queenland scored inside but Natisha Hiedeman hit a three and then drove for a bucket to put Marquette back in front, 15-14. From there, Marquette rattled off the next 11 for a 13-0 run before Mauriana Clayton posted an inside bucket to end the run. Marquette hit 10-of-13 in the first quarter (77 percent) lead 23-16 after one period of play.
In the second, Finnie recorded a steal and took it to the rack, but McKayla Yentz hit a three for a 12-point Marquette lead. Unique Coleman responded back with a three from the corner. Lidy and Owens tallied back-to-back to bring the Tigers within 36-27 with 4:01 to go before half. Marquette reeled off the final six points of the half for a 44-27 lead at the break.
The Golden Eagles shot 55 percent in the first half (18-of-33), while Pacific shot 33 percent (12-of-36). Marquette held a 26-15 edge in rebounding for a 10-4 margin in second-chance points.
Lidy struck first in the third quarter, and Owens added a three-pointer and Coleman a lay-up as Pacific clawed with 50-36. Pacific went over four minutes without a field goal as the Marquette lead swelled to 20 before a Lidy three from the corner. Pacific pounded the offensive glass, with Simons and Owens getting to the line for four points as the Tigers pulled within 63-49.
In the fourth, Marquette hit three-straight jumpers, stretching the lead to 23 at 74-51. And from there the Tigers reeled off a 19-5 run to close within single digits. Coleman added a three-pointer, and Simons and Li added jumpers as the Tigers chipped away. Another and-one from Lidy and a triple from Owens brought the Tigers to within 79-70, but Amani Wilborn immediately answered with a jumper and Marquette hit a trio of free throws to restore a 14 point lead.
Queenland added a three with 1:20 to pal as the Tigers trailed by 11, but Pacific missed the next three attempts and the Golden Eagles extended the margin from the free throw line.
Coleman finished with her season-high 11 points on 4-of-4 shooting, including 2-of-2 from three-point range. In addition to her second 20-point game of her career, Lidy also handed out a season-best three assists, and remained perfect in her career on one-shot free throws following a made bucket, at 10-for-10.
The Tigers fall to 2-4 on the season. Marquette, which knocked off No. 16 Arizona and No. 15 Oregon State before this weekend'stournament, improved to 5-1 on the year.
Pacific is back in action at home on Sunday, Dec. 4, against CSU Bakersfield at 2 p.m.