The Sacramento State women&s basketball team will be looking to even the score against UC Davis in the teams& second meeting of the year.

In the first meeting, the Hornets fell behind early and despite a 14-point second half run to pull within two, at 49-47, they were unable to complete the comeback eventually falling 58-50.

The Aggies were led by sophomore forward Ellen Porshneva who scored 17 points and grabbed eight rebounds.

Porshneva is the leading scorer for the Aggies averaging 13.6 points.

Junior guard Jackie Turpin has also helped the Aggies; starting all 17 games and averaging 8.7 points, 6.3 rebounds, 5.3 assists and 2.5 steals. In the first meeting of the teams, she scored 9, and had 7 rebounds and seven assists to go with 5 steals.

The hornets were led by senior guard Tyeisha Brown and Stephanie Cherry who each had 13 points in the loss.

In that game, Sac State shot only 27-percent from the field, the second lowest of the season. The first being at Texas Tech where the Hornets shot 22-percent.

We got great shots last time we just flat missed them,& Sac State coach Dan Muscatell said. &I&m not concerned about getting shots.&

What does concern Muscatell, he said, is the Aggies ability to shoot the three-ball. The Aggies have a 40-percent field goal percentage, but shoot 39-percent from three-point range.

Muscatell said that the Hornets should play better than in their first match-up, the third game of the season, because the team has a better understanding of the offensive and defensive systems.

The team needed some time to get their chemistry together because of a large turnover of players from last year with four new players averaging over 20 minutes per game.

The Aggies come into the contest having dropped four straight, the last against Long Beach State. Long Beach defeated Davis 73-47 on Jan. 22, they out rebounded the Aggies 44-28 and forced the Aggies into 29 turnovers.

The Hornets are 1-1 in their last two games defeating Montana State in overtime, then losing to defending Big Sky champions Montana, 70-46, on Jan. 20.

Montana junior guard Katie Edwards scored 27 including nine three-point goals, tying the Bog Sky conference single-game record. Brown scored 20 in the loss off the bench.

Brown leads the hornets in scoring at 10.3 despite coming off the bench. She is the only hornet to average over eight points per game.Junior guard Cindy Alldrin is second on the team at 7.8.

This will be the Hornets second game against Davis this year, and only the third in school history. The other game came in 1994, a Davis win, which brought the Hornets record to 0-2 against Davis.

Tip off is scheduled for 7:05 p.m. at The Pavilion at Davis.

Notes: Sac State is 1-7 on the road this season&UC Davis is 3-3 at home.