LA JOLLA, Calif. -- Senior Cierra Hall scored 17 of her game-high 19 points in the second half to help her team erase an 11-point first half deficit, but it wasn't enough to get UC Davis over the hump as host UC San Diego limited the Aggies to just 33 percent shooting for the game and held off a late push en route to a 59-56 victory on Saturday evening at RIMAC Arena in La Jolla, Calif.

UC Davis fell to 6-6 overall and 0-2 in Big West Conference play with the defeat, opening league play 0-2 for the first time since 2013. The Tritons improved to 5-6 overall and 2-0 in league, getting 13 points and 13 rebounds from Sydney Brown.

Hall opened the game just 1-of-7 from the field before turning red-hot after the break, hitting 6-of-15 overall and 6-of-8 from the line, adding four rebounds and a pair of blocks.

Senior teammate Kayla Konrad finished with a career-high eight assists to go with eight points and four rebounds, collecting the most assists in a game by an Aggie player this season. Senior Sage Stobbart, who missed UC Davis' conference opener at UC Irvine on Thursday, put up nine points, seven rebounds, and three blocks in her return to the lineup, while freshman Bria Shine shared team-high honors with a career-high seven rebounds herself.

UC San Diego opened the game on an 12-1 run and held UC Davis to without a field goal until Stobbart found some room inside and finished off a three-point play at the 3:26 mark of the opening quarter. The Tritons kept the Aggies at arms length the rest of the way, leading by 10 after one and closing the first half on an 8-2 run after UC Davis made it a two-point game on a basket by Shine with just under three minutes to go.

The Aggies made it a two-point game once again with 4:04 remaining in the third on a Svanholm triple and trailed by four at 44-40 at the end of the third before drawing even on back-to-back baskets by Konrad and Stobbart at the start of the fourth to tie the game.

However, that would be as close as UC Davis would get the rest of the way as UCSD scored seven of the next nine after calling timeout to stop the bleeding and answered every Aggie challenge the rest of the way, limiting UC Davis to just one field goal over the final six minutes.

Returning to the University Credit Union Center to open a four-game homestand, the Aggies host CSU Bakersfield on Thursday (Jan. 13) before welcoming Cal Poly on Saturday (Jan. 15) next week. Tip-off is scheduled for 6 p.m. and 2 p.m., respectively.
 

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