TURLOCK — The Stanislaus State women's basketball team ran into a buzz-saw of a team on Saturday as Cal State East Bay handled the Warriors, 84-62, to hand them their first loss of the season at home.

Two Pioneers scored in the 20s — and either of them were named Tori Breshers — as Cal State East Bay won its sixth straight to improved to 19-4 overall and 13-2 in conference play. Laci Effenberger scored 21 with seven three-pointers and Shannon Bland poured in 20 points to lead CSUEB.

Stanislaus State just couldn't catch-up to the Pioneers' quick start as the Warriors dropped to 14-6 overall and 10-4 in the CCAA. The Warriors, though, remain in fourth place with a two-and-a-half game lead over fifth place Humboldt State, which won its third straight Saturday night at Sonoma State.

Alysa Valentine led the Warriors with 12 points and Riley Holladay scored 11 and grabbed a game-high eight rebounds.

Cal State East Bay started the game with back to back triples by Effenberger and Bland and ran off to a 10-0 lead. The Pioneers led wire to wire and had a cushion as large as 29 points late in the first half.

Stan State got within 11 points in the second half, at 55-44, with 5:26 to go in the third but the Pioneers held off the rally with a layup by Ashleigh Anderson and another trey by Effenberger to pull away.

The Warriors had started the year 8-0 on home court until Saturday night. They did limit Tori Breshers to just five points but she only took four shots. 

In all, CSUEB made 14 three-pointers on 24 tries (58.3 percent) and was 48.1 percent from the field overall.