SAN FRANCISCO — Senior psychology major Kourtney Eaton and junior biological sciences major Sophia Song shared team-high honors with 15 points apiece to lead four UC Davis players in double figures and the Aggies withstood a fourth-quarter rally by host San Francisco to post a, 70-68, victory over the Dons on Saturday night at War Memorial Gym.

The Aggies moved above the .500 mark for the first time this season thanks to their third consecutive victory, improving to 6-5 overall with the win heading into a home contest against rival Saint Mary's on Monday night (Dec. 17) at 6 p.m. at The Pavilion.

Paced by a game-high 18 points from Shannon Powell, the Dons fell to 3-6 overall despite shooting 47 percent in the second half — including a 50 percent clip in the fourth quarter.

All five of Song's buckets came from beyond the arc — helping UC Davis shoot 44 percent from three-point range — to set new career highs with her 15 points and five three's, while Kourtney Eaton hit 6-of-9 from the floor, including a trio of three-pointers, en route to matching her career best, adding five rebounds, and four assists.

Now with 463 career assists, Eaton needs just four more to match Angelo Rivers — a four-year letter winner for the Aggies' men's team from 1982-86 — for the most assists in a career by a UC Davis player.

Song's previous career best of 13 points came in back-to-back games in 2016 — the second of which  also came against the Dons in San Francisco back on Dec. 21, 2016.

Sophomore cell biology major Cierra Hall posted her first career double-double — and her fifth career double-digit rebounding performance — with a season-high 13 points and 12 rebounds, the latter falling one shy of her career high set at Sacramento State on Dec. 7.

Senior biomedical engineering major Morgan Bertsch added 14 points and seven rebounds to give her 1,926 career points, putting her just one shy of matching Pacific's Julie Szukalski for ninth on the Big West Conference career scoring list.

UC Davis led by seven at the break and was up by as many as 10 points with under a minute to play in the third quarter before the Dons made their run, whittling the advantage down to just two points with 5:42 to play on a drive by Powell.

The Aggies tried to pull away from that point, scoring nine of the next 12 points to make it an eight-point contest at 64-56 with 3:13 to play, and led by seven on a three-pointer by Kourtney Eaton with 1:25 to go that seemingly put the game on ice.

San Francisco, however, began to chip away once again, going 6-for-6 from the line down the stretch and cutting the deficit to just one at 69-68 with 5.5 seconds to play before Hall was fouled and sank 1-of-2 from the stripe for the final score.

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