IRVINE, Calif.—One cold quarter in cool southern California was enough to send the visiting Hawai`i Hilo women's basketball team to a 69-57 defeat at the hands of the Concordia Eagles on Saturday night at the CU Arena.

The Eagles went on a 14-2 run to close the second quarter and parlayed that into their ninth conference win of the year. Concordia is now 9-9 in the Pacific West Conference and 10-13 overall, while the Vulcans dropped to 7-15 on the season and to 4-14 in the PacWest. UH Hilo's slim hopes for post-season play ended, as they are now five games back of sixth-place Concordia in the loss column with four games remaining.

Allie Navarette led the Vulcans with 26 points and ten rebounds, her 13^th double-double of the season and her fifth straight. Patience Taylor had 11 points and six rebounds, and Mandi Kawaha added ten points and five assists.

The Vulcans and Eagles played even through the first quarter. A Maddie Beck basket gave UHH a 9-8 lead before CUI scored the next four points to take a 12-9 lead into the second quarter.

That changed for UH Hilo in the second quarter. After a Navarette three-pointer made it 14-14 two minutes into the period, Concordia countered with an 8-0 run, but that would be just the beginning. The Eagles would go on to outscore the Vulcans 14-2 the rest of the half to hold a 28-16 margin at the break.

Concordia would push its lead to 41-20 early in the third quarter, but the Vulcans then made a push to get back into the game. UHH went on a 19-4 run, with buckets scored by five different players. A Taylor three-point play with 39 seconds left in the period cut the margin to just six points (45-39)—from a 21-point margin five and a half minutes earlier.

The Eagles kept the Vulcans at arm's length in the final quarter. Another Taylor basket two minutes into the stanza cut it to eight (51-43) but UH Hilo would get no closer than that the rest of the way.

Michaela Vanderklugt led the Eagles with 20 points and nine rebounds and Jasmine Rachal added 19 points as Concordia completed the season-sweep of the Vulcans. The Vulcans, who had been scorching the nets from three-point range lately, were a cold 4-for-17 from behind the arch tonight.

UH Hilo will continue this four-game trek through southern California with a Tuesday night game at Biola. Start time is 5:30 p.m. Pacific.