TEMPE, Ariz. - The Southern Utah women's basketball team saw their five-game winning streak come to an end Monday night, as they fell to the Arizona State Sun Devils 44-55.

Darri Frandsen was the leading scorer for the Thunderbirds with 13 points. She also pulled down seven rebounds and had two blocks. Madelyn Eaton scored 11 points and Cherita Daugherty scored 10.

Both teams shot below 36 percent from the floor and they only had 19 bench points between the two of them.

It was a low scoring affair for both teams all the way through with neither of them scoring 20 or more points in any of the quarters. The Thunderbirds only scored 17 points in the first half, but found themselves down by just seven at the break as they were able to hold the Sun Devils to just 26.9 percent from the floor.

Southern Utah outscored ASU in the third quarter 13-12, closing the quarter on a 6-0 run to make it 30-36 heading into the final 10 minutes.

After the T-Birds cut the lead to just four, the Sun Devils' offense seemed to wake up as they shot 57.1 percent from the floor in just the fourth quarter. They used a 10-1 scoring run to make it 39-53 with 2:23 to go. Daugherty stemmed the bleeding with a bucket at the 1:20 mark, but Southern Utah would go on to lose 44-55.

The Thunderbirds will return to Big Sky play on February 18 against Sacramento State.

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