ARKADELPHIA, Ark. – Henderson State fell to the No. 24 Southwestern Oklahoma St. Bulldogs Thursday evening inside the Duke Wells Center, 90-78.
 
Sophomore transfer Abbie Jiles played the best game of her collegiate career as the Searcy, Arkansas, native scored a career high 18 points on 7-of-13 shooting, including going 2-4 from beyond-the-arc, while also pulling down eight rebounds, dishing out three assists and claiming a pair of blocks.
 
Lani Snowden and Jadah Pickens each tallied 13 points in the effort. Snowden is now seven points shy of 1000 career points with an opportunity to reach that mark Saturday against Northwestern Oklahoma State.
 
Thursday night's matchup was back and forth through the early going with the game seeing two lead changes through the first two and a half minutes. The Bulldogs held a one-point advantage at 11-10 with 6:02 remaining in the opening period. From there, SWOSU went on a 5-0 run and never relinquished the lead again.
 
After heading into the second quarter down 26-19, a 6-2 run courtesy of Ashley Farrar and Snowden to open the second stanza brought the game within a single possession at 28-25, but the GAC's leading team took over, building its lead to 43-30 before HSU was able to get it back to single digits before the break, 43-34.
 
As it was to open the game, both teams traded baskets most of the third quarter as Henderson got the deficit down to seven, but the first-half nine-point hole was too big to climb out of. The Bulldogs regained its double-digit advantage going into the fourth, 65-53, remaining as such through the final 10 minutes as Southwestern left the Duke Wells Center Thursday evening with the 90-78 victory.
 
Henderson St. (13-10, 8-9) remains at home when Northwestern Oklahoma St. comes to the Duke Wells Center Saturday, Feb. 12 at 1:00 p.m. in a must-win game for the Reddies. Earlier this season, Northwestern defeated HSU in Alva, 84-78.