JONESBORO, Ark. - Senior Trellanie English-Lurry collected a career-high 17 points, but it wasn't enough to stop Arkansas State from claiming a 69-48 Sun Belt Conference victory over visiting Georgia Southern on Saturday afternoon at First National Bank Arena in Jonesboro.

The Red Wolves (12-10, 7-4 SBC) picked up back-to-back wins for only the second time this season - the previous time coming against both Georgia State and Georgia Southern in early January. The Eagles (4-17, 1-9 SBC) dropped its second straight. Georgia Southern returns home on Thursday, February 8, to take on UL Monroe in a 5 p.m. Sun Belt Conference contest at Hanner Fieldhouse.

The Eagles got three first-half three-pointers from English-Lurry and a pair of three-point plays from Alexis Brown to stay within an arm's length of the Red Wolves, trailing 31-24 with 2:26 left until halftime, but Arkansas State scored the final five points of the half as the Eagles turned it over in their last three possessions of the half.

In the second half, each team scored 14 points in the third quarter as Arkansas State maintained its double digit lead, but in the fourth, the Red Wolves pulled away for the 21-point victory.

"I thought we got some pretty decent looks at times," Georgia Southern Head Coach Kip Drown said. "We did some real good things in our zone, and I thought we played hard. We just could never get that run to get it back down once it got to nine, 10, 12 points. We couldn't get a stop and give us a chance to cut into the lead."

English-Lurry hit 6-of-12 shots from the field, including 5-of-10 three-pointers, en route to her game-high 17 points. The five three-pointers were also a career-high. Arkansas State was led by Peyton Martin's 17 points off the bench and Jada Ford's 11 points.

"Trell had an outstanding night for us," Drown said. "She really played well and kinda put us on her back. But we've got to have more people step up and got to make more shots. I'm really proud of her."

The Eagles shot just 27.6 percent from the floor (16-of-58) while hitting 7-of-25 three-pointers (28 percent) and just 9-of-16 from the free throw line (56.3 percent). Arkansas State hit 25-of-56 shots from the floor (44.6 percent) while knocking down 9-of-24 threes (37.5 percent) and hitting 10-of-16 free throws (62.5 percent). The Red Wolves had a 36-7 edge in bench points on the day.