Malika Andrews |
There wasn’t a single player in a purple jersey smiling when the buzzer hit zero on the Pilots’ 15th straight loss.
Junior Corissa Turley sat on the bench and picked at her right sleeve. The coaching staff stayed glued to its clipboards, where they scribbled notes furiously. You could have heard a pen drop.
Portland fell to St. Mary’s 78-51 on Saturday afternoon in the Chiles Center, marking the team’s third straight conference loss by at least 20 points. The loss, which extended the program’s longest losing streak of the last 14 years, dropped Portland to 0-9 in WCC play.