MALIBU, Calif. – The Pepperdine women's basketball team dropped a home West Coast Conference contest 66-59 to Pacific on Saturday afternoon.
 
The Waves (7-16, 2-11) and Tigers (10-14, 5-8) exchanged the lead nine times and were tied four times. Pepperdine came back and tied the game at 45-all late in the third quarter, but Pacific sank the last bucket of the third quarter with a two-point lead and never let up.
 
BIG WAVES

• Graduate guard Marly Walls (Bardstown, Ky./Nelson County HS/Bucknell) led the squad with 20 points. She had four rebounds and two assists. This was the sixth game this season for Walls with 20 or more points.
• Sophomore guard Ally Stedman (Phoenix, Ariz./Pinnacle HS) drained 12 points and brought down five rebounds.
• Freshman center KK Brodie (Columbia, Mo./Rock Bridge HS) tied her career-high in points with seven. Brodie blocked two shots and had one steal.

 
GAME RECAP
 
Stedman drained a three-point bucket to get the Waves on the board first in the first quarter. Pacific answered with a three-pointer and a layup to get a 5-3 lead. Pepperdine then had seven straight points to take over the lead, 10-5. Another five consecutive points for the Waves extended the lead to 15-7. Pacific earned two free throws within the final five seconds of the quarter and cut the deficit to six at 17-11. 
 
In the second quarter, the Tigers collected five points to cut the margin to one, 17-16. Pacific then had a six-point scoring run to take the lead 27-22. Four points for the Waves got them back within one, 27-26. With under two minutes to play, the Tigers scored four points to hold a 33-27 lead heading into the break.
 
Following halftime, the Waves and Tigers went back and forth, before the Waves had an eight-point scoring run to take the lead back, 43-42. Pacific hit one from long range to retake the lead, but Walls tied it up with a jump shot at 45-all. The Tigers put up a jumper to make it 47-45 heading into the fourth quarter.
 
In the final frame, Pacific made a basket from downtown to increase their advantage to 50-45. The Waves and Tigers exchanged baskets, before four-straight free throws from the opposition got the lead to 64-56. Walls sank a three-pointer to cut the opposition's lead to five, 64-59, but the Tigers were fouled and made two free throws to hold onto the win 66-59.
 
STATS

• The Waves outshot the Tigers 33.3% to 31.7%.
• Pacific out-rebounded Pepperdine 48 to 44.
• The Waves had 26 paint points compared to the Tigers' 22.

 
UP NEXT
 
The Waves will kick off the last West Coast Conference road trip matching up with BYU on Thursday, Feb. 9. Tip-off is scheduled for 6 p.m. PT and the game will be live on BYUtv.