The Georgia Southern University women’s basketball team continued to struggle against its conference foes as it fell to Appalachian State University on Saturday.

Back and forth basketball is what it came down to, at least until the last six minutes of the game. The Eagles were within three points until the Mountaineers went on an 11-2 run in the final 6:02.

"For 35 or 36 minutes I thought we played hard, but we seemed to tire out and they took over. We knew we were going to have to keep them off the offensive glass. We did a great job of it in the first half but totally dominated the offensive glass in the last four or five minutes," said head coach Rusty Cram.

GSU came down with only half of the number of rebounds that App. State came down with. With a total of 25 to the Mountaineers 50, the Eagles were well below its normal number of rebounds per game this season. One statistic that can be attributed to the game's difficulty is App. State’s size. The Mountaineers had three starters over six feet tall, whereas GSU had no starters above that mark.

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