LA GRANDE – The Southern Oregon women's basketball team couldn't recover from a slow start and Eastern Oregon led wire to wire in a 75-53 Cascade Conference decision Saturday night at Quinn Coliseum.

The Mountaineers (14-7 overall, 8-3 CCC) won their fifth straight behind a monster game from reserve Rachel Fielder, who checked in with 20 points and 10 rebounds. Fielder was responsible for half of the six 3-pointers contributed by the EOU bench, which also got 12 points and four boards from Jillian Albright and accumulated 47 in all.

A 13-3 run punctuated by back-to-back 3-pointers from Whitney Meier and Fielder gave the Mountaineers a 27-13 lead midway through the second quarter. The duo hit two more triples to end the half, making it 37-18, and EOU continued to tack on in the third.

Dominique Harding and Kalei Iwami scored 12 points each to lead the Raiders (13-7, 9-4), who settled on a split of their road trip with home games coming up next Friday and Saturday against Evergreen (Wash.) and Northwest (Wash.). They ended the night at fourth place in the standings but only two games back of first-place Northwest Christian in the loss column.

Taylor Stricklin scored 14 points and Emma Logan had 10 for the Mountaineers. They shot 42 percent from the field while SOU ended at 34 percent and was limited to 12 buckets through the first three quarters.

Bryanna Raff added nine points and five rebounds, and Kami Walk registered six and four for the Raiders. They'd won eight of their last nine coming into the matchup.