LOS ANGELES – There's a saying: 'don't judge a book by its cover.' When the Chico State women's basketball team prepared for a matchup with a struggling Cal State LA team, the Wildcats didn't judge the Golden Eagles' by their record.
 
Despite Cal State LA losing 7-of-8 games not too long ago and entered Thursday with a 3-6 CCAA record, the conference's preseason favorite to win the title acted on desperation as they beat the Wildcats 92-68 to snap Chico State's impressive seven-game win streak.
 
It was a rough day for the Wildcats (11-5, 7-3 CCAA) as far as trying to keep pace with the Golden Eagles on the scoreboard. They did witness a career-day from Jordan Allred, who led the effort with a career-high 28 points including an impressive six-made 3-pointers. After coming up just a point short for 1,000 in a career last Saturday at home against Cal State Monterey Bay, Zhane Duckett got over the mark with eight points. Her 1,000-career points is combined between her first two years at Cal State East Bay and her season-and-a-half thus far at Chico State.
 
The Golden Eagles, now 7-8 overall and 4-6 in the CCAA, had a handful of players scoring double digits. But one person in particular the Wildcats couldn't stop was Lily Buggs, who played well over 34 minutes and ended the game with 23 points and 11 rebounds, six of which came from the offensive end.
 
Although the Wildcats met its season field-goal average at 44.6 percent, the Golden Eagles outperformed them from the field by hitting 56.3 percent.
 
The score was close in the first quarter. Chico State went into the second period trailing Cal State LA 26-20 but back-to-back buckets from Buggs in the first 2:30 of the second quarter gave the Golden Eagles a 10-point lead.
 
Trailing 47-34 at the start of the second half, Chico State got to within nine midway through the third quarter until Buggs put her foot on the pedal and put the Golden Eagles back to the 13-point lead and kept furthering the gap.
 
Chico State will make the drive south of the 710 freeway to face the defending NCAA West Region and CCAA champions Cal State Dominguez Hills Saturday at 1 p.m. The Toros are coming off a edging overtime win over Cal Poly Humboldt tonight.