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KIRKSVILLE, Mo. - Senior Nicole Caddell finished with a team-high 20 points, but it wasn't enough as the No. 11 Central Missouri Jennies were upset in their final MIAA road trip to Truman, falling to the Bulldogs 73-64 in Pershing Arena on Saturday afternoon. The loss snaps an eight-game winning streak for the Jennies, and is the first of the season to an unranked opponent.

The Bulldogs (13-3, 6-2 MIAA) won the tip and broke for a quick layup, earning a lead that they held onto throughout much of the opening ten minutes. After TSU's Megan Sharpe made it a 6-2 Truman lead at the 15:51 mark of the first half, the Jennies answered with a 14-5 run to go up by five, 16-11 with 9:05 in the first half. Truman pulled to within a point with a jumper from Allie Norton, before junior Symone Murray hit one of her two treys on the day, pushing the UCM lead back up to 22-18 with 5:29 until the half. Murray finished with 11 points, reaching double-figures for the fifth time this season and the first since last month's game at Fort Hays State.

Truman would come back with eight straight points in under a minute, highlighted by back-to-back three-pointers for the Bulldogs. TSU would hold a narrow lead through the rest of the first half, going into the break with a 33-31 advantage.

The Jennies (13-2, 5-2 MIAA) would cut the Truman lead down to one on three occasions in the opening four minutes of the second half before pushing ahead with a Brielle Wattley layup. Wattley drew the foul on the play and knocked down the free throw, putting UCM ahead 40-38 with 15:36 to play.

Central Missouri's second-half lead would only last 11 seconds, however, as Truman came back with six straight points and a 13-2 run over the following three minutes, building a nine-point advantage, 51-42, at the 12:27 mark. Nicole Caddell knocked down the jumper on the next possession, then hit a pair of free throws to close within five points, 51-46.

Truman again answered, scoring four straight of their own, and eventually taking their biggest lead of the day with a three-pointer from Norton, going ahead 67-55 at the 4:20 mark of the second half. The Jennies would make it a four-point game in the final minute with another Caddell layup, but the Bulldogs closed out the win with a 6-of-6 performance from the free throw line in the final 38 seconds.

With her 20-point performance, Caddell inches closer to the 1,000-point mark; the Tuscaloosa, Ala. native now has 968 points during her three-year Jennies career, needing just 32 points to reach the 1,000-point milestone.

Keuna Flax finished with 16 points, as the junior fails to reach the 20-point mark for just the third time in eight games this season. Flax did pull down six rebounds and recorded a career-high two blocks in the game.

The Jennies return home next week, where they are 9-0 this season, for a pair of MIAA matchups. UCM will host Missouri Western on Wednesday, January 23, before welcoming Northwest Missouri on Saturday, January 26. Both games can be heard on 98.5 The Bar, 1450 KOKO, and online at www.warrensburgradio.com.