Women's basketball falls short against Washington State
<p><a href="/sports/w-baskbl/stats/2010-2011/game-16.html"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">Final Stats</span></a></p><separator></separator><!-- LINKS TO RELATED PAGES END --><p> </p><separator></separator><p> </p><separator></separator><p>Jazmine Perkins scored 16 points, including a key 3-pointer late, to lead Washington State to a 70-65 decision Thursday over Arizona State in Pac-10 play.</p><separator></separator><p><a href="http://newsroom.asu.edu/sports/w-baskbl/mtt/simon_dymond01.html"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">Dymond Simon</span></a> had 19 points and <a href="http://newsroom.asu.edu/sports/w-baskbl/mtt/watson_tenaya00.html"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">Tenaya Watson</span></a> had 14 points, five assists and three steals for Arizona State, which has lost three of the last four.</p><separator></separator><p>The Sun Devils (11-5, 3-3 Pac-10) rallied from a 55-46 deficit with 7:51 left to get within 60-58 with 1:36 remaining on <a href="http://newsroom.asu.edu/sports/w-baskbl/mtt/earl_alex00.html"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">Alex Earl's</span></a> 3-pointer from the corner. But Perkins made the fourth of her 3-pointers with 1:51 left to put the Cougars up 63-58.</p><separator></separator><p>Watson hit two free throws with 33 seconds remaining to get the Sun Devils within 66-63.</p><separator></separator><p>But Sage Romberg hit three of four throws in the final 32 seconds to help secure the win for Washington State (5-14, 3-4).</p><separator></separator><p>Ireti Amojo hit four 3-pointers, scoring 16 points and adding three assists and two steals, for Washington State, which has won three of its last four after losing seven in a row.</p><separator></separator><p>The Cougars went on a 11-2 run midway through the second half to break a 44-44 tie getting its largest lead after Amojo hit her third 3-pointer following a pair of missed free throws by April Cook.</p><separator></separator><p>The Cougars came into the game as the conference's second-worst shooting team (38 percent) but made 25-of-47 (53 percent) on Thursday and was giving up the second-most points a game in the Pac-10 (74.2 points a game). But Washington State's zone defense kept Arizona State to 38 percent shooting (22-of-58). The teams combined for 44 turnovers.</p><separator></separator><p>The Cougars hit all four of their 3-point attempts in the first to open up a 31-22 lead until Arizona State scored the last seven points of the half to cut the lead to 33-29 at the break. The teams combined for 25 turnovers in a back-and-forth half.</p><separator></separator><p>Washington State won its second straight against Arizona State, having broken a 13-year drought in Tempe in the teams' last meeting, a Cougars' 66-62 win on Feb. 6, 2010, during which Cook scored 33 points. She scored four on Thursday</p>