This time around the UW women’s basketball team was only bad for one half.

But the Huskies still weren’t able to pull things together in the end as they dropped their fourth straight game in Pac-10 play, 69-55, to Oregon State (11-5, 2-4 Pac-10).

The game was largely decided in the first half in the Beavers’ favor but the Huskies (5-10, 1-4 Pac-10) rallied to get within 14 points by the end of the game.

“It’s really frustrating because I think if we had another 10 minutes, we definitely would have won the game,” UW center Laura McLellan said.

The Beavers took a 23 point lead into the half and never gave it up and this was the third time in four games that the Huskies went into half-time trailing by more than 20 points.

But the Huskies fought from being down by as many as 26 points in the second half in an offensive breakout of sorts for the UW.

“We knew we had scorers out there and we were finally able to find that in Sami [Whitcomb], Laura [McLellan] and [Christina Rozier],” UW coach Tia Jackson said.

The Huskies shot 53.6 percent from the field in the second half while limiting the Beavers to 36.4 percent.

UW’s offensive explosion in the second frame was a stark contrast from the first, when the Huskies combined to shoot 6-21 from the field, good for just 28.6 percent.

Conversely, the Beavers shot 13-24 for 54.2 percent, including 5-10 from beyond the arc. The Dawgs were torched by OSU’s Brittney Davis who went 5-7 from the 3-point line and finished the game with 25 points.

“We want to make people uncomfortable, we want to make them extremely uncomfortable, and I think they didn’t feel that uncomfortableness until the second half,” Jackson said of the Dawgs’ inability to pressure OSU.

On UW’s end, all 14 of their first half points came from two players.

Rozier scored 10 of those 14—including all of UW’s first eight points—and received a small ovation when she went to the bench. Sami Whitcomb dropped in two buckets to score the other four points.

Jackson was unable to explain Washington’s slow start.

“I promise you I’m not saying let’s go out here and see what Oregon State does first,” Jackson said.

Rozier was just as puzzled as Jackson.

“We have done that plenty of games where we just come out [in] the second half [more] ready to go than the first half of the game,” she said. “I really don’t know why.”

Reach reporter Honsen Lin at sports@dailyuw.com.