SAN DIEGO, Calif. – Northern Arizona women's basketball played its first road game since Nov. 15 but dropped a 78-63 decision to San Diego at the Jenny Craig Pavilion on Saturday.  Junior Caty Huntington scored 15 points in the loss.

NAU (4-6) fell for the third consecutive time on the road this season while San Diego improved to 7-3 on the year.  The Toreros shot 55.3 percent from the field for the game despite only two attempts from three-point range.  San Diego got it done at the line converting 26-of-31 attempts.

San Diego started the game on an 11-0 run and the Lumberjacks played catch up for the remainder of the game.  The women were down by as many as 13 points in the first half but cut the lead to single digits several times entering the break behind 39-29.

In the second half, NAU cut San Diego's lead to eight two times but could not get any closer, and the Toreros finished the game ahead by a 15-point margin.

The Lumberjacks improved their shooting in the second half hitting 46.7 percent of their shots compared to 42.9 percent in the first half.  San Diego shot 55 percent from the field in each half.

Huntington finished 5-of-10 from the field and 4-of-5 from the free throw line.  She also totaled three rebounds and two steals in 26 minutes.  San Diego's Dominique Conners led all players with 23 points.

The women travel to the Midwest next week with a pair of Big Ten matchups against Northwestern on Sunday, Dec. 19 at noon and Minnesota on Wednesday, Dec. 22 at 6 p.m.  Both games will be televised live on the Big Ten Network.

DID YOU KNOW…The Northern Arizona University athletics department recorded its highest cumulative grade point average since 1997, recording a 3.16 GPA among its more than 300 student-athletes at the completion 2009 fall semester.