LINCOLN, Calif. – Senior guard Sydney Teoh scored more than half of her team's points for a career-high 29 but St. Francis fell to the tournament hosts, 59-50, in the third-place game of the Lincoln Invitational girls' basketball tournament at Dale Pence Gymnasium Monday evening.

The Troubadours even their record to 6-6 for the season.

Teoh shot 9 of 19 from the floor, including 6-for-12 from three-point range, while converting 5 of 6 from the free-throw line en route to her 29 points. That total surpasses her previous best of 27, set a year and two days prior against Maria Carrillo during the West Coast Jamboree tournament. It also marks Teoh's third game of 20-plus points this season, and the 13th for her career.

Finally, the output raised Teoh's career total to 945, moving her past Jolise Limcaco (940) for fourth in the school's MaxPreps era (2003-present), behind only Lauren Craig (1,260), Mia Fleming-Mullins (956) and former teammate Brianna McGahan (953).

Junior Laila Mendoza added 10 points, thanks in part to a pair of treys; while junior Lexi London led SF with four assists and eight rebounds.

The Troubies battled the Fighting Zebras to four ties in the first period, then seized as much as a five-point lead, when Teoh canned a three-pointer at the 5:30 mark before assisting Mendoza on a corner three with 4:39 to go, the latter resulting in a 26-21 edge. But Lincoln responded with 10 straight after that point, with two Taylors accounting for the majority of the offense. Senior Taylor Hodge scored a second-chance bucket thanks to a spectacular offensive board by freshman Taylor Butler, then made the and-one free throw to reclaim a 27-26 lead for the Zebras. Hodge knocked down another shot from the elbow at the 2:14 mark, then Butler followed that with a successful putback with 1:41 left. Butler also swatted a London shot on the next trip down to protect that 31-26 Lincoln margin.

SF twice managed to close the gap to a single possession near the end of the second period. Teoh's runner ended the scoreless stretch to bring the tally to 31-28. Then after Lincoln junior Isa Keidel made two of a three-shot trip to the line, sophomore Tayli Paeu-Lindgren's lunging offensive rebound set up a Mendoza score underneath, cutting the deficit to 32-30 with 20 seconds left. Zebra sophomore Lacie Brown then came up with a field goal in the paint with three seconds left before halftime.

London set up Teoh for a three-pointer immediately out of the third-period gates to pull SF to within a 35-33 hole, but that ended up as the closest the Troubies came to equalizing. Brown scored a long two-pointer then buried a three as part of an 8-0 Lincoln run, making it 42-33 with almost five minutes left in the third. Butler later scored twice to extend the Zebra outburst to 14-3 by the 1:17 mark.

St. Francis continued to battle, with London banking a three-pointer early in the fourth and Teoh converting both ends of a trip to the stripe, reducing the gap to 49-44 at 6:07 in the fourth. Teoh hit two more treys at 3:53 and 2:04 in the fourth, the latter of which reduced the lead to four at 54-50, the smallest margin since a minute into the second half. Unfortunately for the Troubies, that final Teoh bomb was the last successful shot: SF went 0-for-4 from the field and 0-for-2 from the line during the final two minutes of play.

Monday's tourney finale marked the first meeting between the Troubies and Zebras in the MaxPreps era. With the win, Lincoln improved to 10-4 heading into the start of Pioneer Valley League play.

Earlier in Monday's session, freshman Jocelyn Dickinson scored seven points with her team's lone three-pointer, while Emmy Cheatham totaled six rebounds and six steals, but the SF junior varsity failed to protect a 13-4 halftime lead in falling to Kennedy, 24-19, in the tournament's third-place game.

The Troubadours scored 11 unanswered from early in the first period to the four-minute mark of the second in crafting the edge at the break, but they shot less than 14 percent (8-for-58) for the overall game. Cougar guard Angel Pearce scored all eight of her team's points in the third frame to reduce the margin to 17-12, then she restored the Kennedy lead with 4:20 left in the fourth. That margin lasted just 14 seconds: Jocelyn Villaflor drove the left side of the lane to push SF back up by a 19-18 margin, but that ended up as the only Troubie field goal in the final frame.

With 3:20 remaining, Pearce assisted Lalah Brown on the go-ahead score, then drained a three-pointer to set the board to 24-19. St. Francis. The Troubies did not manage even a field goal attempt in the final two minutes, with a Pearce steal on a fast break spoiling their closest chance to cut into the deficit.

Villaflor finished with four points, Keanna Daneshvar with three, and Cheatham and Lena Mundhenk with two apiece. Catherine Gustafson led SF with nine rebounds while blocking three shots. Dickinson and Gustafson also received all-tournament honors for the invite, which began last Friday.

Both St. Francis teams return to action on Friday at the similarly named Lincoln of Stockton. Game times are 1 p.m. for JV, 2:30 p.m. for varsity.