If only women’s college basketball games were 10 minutes long, the Haskell Indian Nations University team would have come away Thursday with its third straight win.

Unfortunately, the Indians had to play another 30 minutes against Park University in their 76-55 loss.

The Indians (2-3) started the game with a 9-0 run, thanks in part to an aggressive defense. But with eight minutes left in the first half, the Pirates (3-3) went on a 26-4 run, and led by 12 heading into halftime.

“That was a lot of my fault. I probably let them sit in that zone (defense) too long,” Haskell coach Phil Homeratha said. “We decided that we could not probably go man-to-man with them and probably we might have gone man-to-man a little bit.”

The zone defense allowed the Pirates to plunder the Indians with a flurry of three-pointers.

Park finished the game shooting 10 of 30 from behind the arc, led by Jessica Stanley, who was 7-for-10 from three-point land and had a game-high 25 points.

“I didn’t want to go man-to-man because I didn’t think we could go physical with them,” Homeratha said. “But then again, I don’t think 21 (Stanley) has ever had that many points before. We didn’t get the rotations and then we started kind of standing around.”

One player who didn’t just stand around for Haskell was Samantha Pete.

She led the Indians with 14 points, scoring the team’s two lone three-pointers and going 6-for-6 from the charity stripe.

“We did have a good start, but when they started pushing the ball and with us not getting back, it just kind of broke down,” said Pete, who also had a team-high seven rebounds. “When they took the first shot out of transition that kind of broke us down, so we just kind of got tired during that stretch.”

Bench players Kortney Smith and Whitney Warrior tried to spark the Indians in the second half, scoring 15 points between the two of them.

Smith dished out three assists and came away with two steals, leading the team in both categories.

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“As a point guard I just need to get everybody pumped up,” Smith said. “We have got to learn that when you’re down like that you can’t just lay over and play dead. You’ve got to learn to just keep going at them and that’s why I kept driving because they weren’t as fast as us.”

The Indians will only have a day to prepare for their next game as they will head to Leavenworth on Saturday to play the University of St. Mary.