SACRAMENTO, Calif. \u2014 Montana’s women’s basketball skid continued Thursday night with a 75-57 Big Sky Conference road loss at Sacramento State.<\/p>\n
It was the seventh straight loss for the Lady Griz, who are now 7-20 overall and 4-12 in the Big Sky. It marks just the second 20-loss season in program history and the first since UM went 7-23 in 2016-17.<\/p>\n
Sacramento State’s Natalie Picton, who transferred from Montana State after last season, scored 17 of her game high 24 points in the first half. In all, Picton shot 8 for 14 from the field, hit six 3-pointers and added seven rebounds and five assists.<\/p>\n
Benthe Versteeg had 21 points, 10 rebounds and six assists for the Hornets, who outrebounded Montana 42-25. Rubi Gray added 17 points for Sacramento State and teammate Fatoumata Jaiteh contributed 11 points and seven rebounds. <\/p>\n
The Lady Griz were led by Jocelyn Land, who scored 21 points while hitting five of UM’s 10 3-pointers. Avery Waddington finished with 12 points and Kennedy Gillette scored 10 points and pulled down a team-high five rebounds. <\/p>\n
With the regular season winding down, Montana looks to stop its skid on Saturday when it travels to face Portland State. Tipoff is at 3 p.m. Mountain time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SACRAMENTO, Calif. \u2014 Montana’s women’s basketball skid continued Thursday night with a 75-57 Big Sky Conference road loss…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[91456,4213,91457,12072,77319,121,123,122],"class_list":["post-196079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-big-sky-conference-basketball","tag-college-basketball","tag-montana-basketball","tag-montana-grizzlies","tag-montana-lady-griz","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}