ALPINE, Texas – A week long road trip didn't end the way East Texas Baptist University wanted it to playing their third game in five days as they fell in West Texas to Sul Ross State University, 71-58. The loss ends the Tigers six-game winning streak and now are 11-3 overall and 5-2 in the American Southwest Conference.
 
Bridget Upton was the lone player in double figures with 15 points. Michaela James added nine points and led the team with seven rebounds. Kaia Williams also had seven rebounds. SRSU had four players in double figures as Marley Rokas led with 20 points.
 
The difference in the game came as SRSU scored 24 points off of ETBU's 25 turnovers and out rebounding the Tigers, 43-37. ETBU shot just 31 percent overall making just 25 percent from the arc and 73 percent from the line. SRSU made 36 percent from the floor, 38 percent from three-point land, and 61 percent on the line.
 
ETBU came out with an eight-point lead after the first quarter, 21-13, but then scored just seven points in the second quarter. In that second quarter, SRSU scored 26 points. With ETBU up, 25-23, with 6:25 to go, SRSU went on a 16-0 run over six minutes for a 39-25 lead. Upton converted a three-point play just before the half to cut the Lobos lead to 11, 39-28.
 
Scoring 16 points in the third quarter, ETBU came within eight points, twice. The final time was 49-41 at 2:38 on two free throws by Jamara Levy. ETBU was down 10 points, 54-4, at the end of the quarter. James banked in a layup at 4:10 left in the game as ETBU was within seven, 62-55, but that is as close as they would come in the final five minutes as they fell, 71-58.
 
ETBU will be home on Thursday, January 12, when they host Texas Dallas at 5:30 p.m.