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GAME NOTES: The Aggies of UC Davis play their final home game of the regular season this afternoon as they entertain the UC Riverside Highlanders in a Big West Conference showdown.

The Aggies were last in action on Thursday night when they suffered a 68-65 loss to Long Beach State at home, the third setback in the last four games for the program. As a result, UC Davis is now a game below .500 in conference play at 6-7.

As for the Highlanders, they too were active three nights ago, but in their case they picked up a 62-53 win over Pacific on the road, giving UCR three straight victories and four in the last five games.

UC Davis won the first meeting of the season last month by a score of 60-50, which means the all-time series now stands at 26-24 in favor of the Highlanders.

With Pacific trying to stay close to the top of the Big West standings, the Tigers should have been favored as they hosted UCR on Thursday night, but in the end the Highlanders came alive and captured the nine-point decision. Kyle Austin accounted for a game-high 23 points and cleared eight rebounds for the Highlanders, but more importantly the team held Pacific to a mere 33.3 percent shooting from the field and 6-of-24 behind the three-point line. Austin, a starter in all 27 games for Riverside this season, is scoring a lofty 18.3 ppg which is more than twice as high as Larry Gurganious who is second on the unit in scoring with a mere 7.9 ppg. The leading rebounder as well with his 7.2 rpg, Austin has already made more field goals (175-of-380) than anyone else has taken for UCR and the same goes at the free-throw line (120-of-193) as well.

The UC Davis defense was all over the 49ers the last time out, albeit a bit too much at times as Long Beach State made good on 28-of-35 at the free-throw line in the three-point decision. Nevertheless, LBSU shot a mere 32.7 percent from the field and 4-of-21 (.190) beyond the arc in the outing. Joe Harden led the way for the Davis offense with his game-high 26 points and a team-best 11 rebounds, followed by Mark Payne and Dominic Calegari with 12 and 10 points, respectively. Calegari and Harden are the only two players to have started all 13 conference games this season and as such are also two of the leading scorers in those meetings with 16.9 and 14.0 ppg, respectively, while Payne checks in with his 14.1 ppg stemming from 85.7 percent accuracy at the free- throw line in his eight appearances. Nevertheless, even with those three carrying most of the load, the Aggies are still getting outscored by the opponents on the average.

The Highlanders haven't been that great on the road this season, but topping Pacific by a convincing score is certainly something the squad can build upon this afternoon.