GREELEY, Colo. - Northern Arizona women's basketball lost to Northern Colorado, 72-58, in the Butler-Hancock Center on Thursday.  The Lumberjacks' Tyler Stephens-Jenkins scored a season-high 22 points in the defeat.

NAU (7-13, 2-5 BSC) found itself down 16 points at halftime after Northern Colorado came out shooting 58 percent.  The Lumberjacks opened the game hitting 27 percent of their first half shots.  The women entered the half down, 38-22.

NAU outscored the Bears in the second half, 36-34, aided by 5-of-12 shooting from three-point range and converted 9-of-12 free throws.  The Lumberjacks hit 80 percent from the charity stripe for the game improving on their 61 percent season average.

Stephens-Jenkins hit five three point shots and finished 8-of-18 from the field.  The sophomore from Goodyear, Ariz., totaled her best scoring output of the season and was a point removed from her career high.

Freshman Trinidee Trice scored 12 points off the bench.  It was her second double digit scoring performance in the last three games.  Sophomore Amy Patton also added 10 points off the bench.

Northern Colorado finished with four players in double figures led by Lauren Oosdyke's 17 points.

The Lumberjacks are off the rest of the week and resume play next week at Montana and Montana State.  The women play at Montana State on Thursday, Feb. 3 at 7:05 p.m. followed by a matchup with Montana on Saturday, Feb. 5 at 2:00 p.m.

DID YOU KNOW…The Lumberjacks had 11 of the 15 intercollegiate teams record a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher led by women's soccer at 3.42. Women's basketball was close behind at 3.39, followed by women's cross country (3.35), women's golf (3.29), swimming and diving (3.25) volleyball (3.22) and men's cross country (3.19).