The Georgia women’s basketball team has lost five straight contests for the first time ever under coach Andy Landers as it fell at No. 3 Auburn 65-59 Sunday afternoon.

Although the outcome resulted in a loss, the Lady Bulldogs put forth one of their best efforts in the past five games, taking the Tigers to the wire in a game that featured five ties and eight lead changes.

“For the most part we made a great effort,” Landers told Bulldog Radio Networks’ Jeff Dantzler following the game. “[The] kids played hard, they executed on both ends of the floor defensively and offensively about as well as we could ask them to.”

Georgia (15-12, 5-7 SEC) was led by junior center Angel Robinson, who posted her sixth double-double of the season and 15th of her career. Robinson had 17 points and 14 rebounds, with nine of her rebounds coming after the intermission break.

Joining Robinson in double figures was Porsha Phillips who came off the bench to score 13 points in 19 minutes of play.

Despite its effort and execution, Georgia was doomed down the stretch by several missed lay-ups and a key missed rebound with the game on the line.

Down by just three points with 48 seconds remaining, Georgia fouled Auburn’s DeWanna Bonner, hoping that she would miss and Georgia would get the ball back. The Lady Bulldogs were fortunate enough for her to miss, but Auburn (26-2, 11-2) got the rebound and put the game away.

“Probably the things that, on the bus ride home, are going to hit me are the [missed] lay-ups and the easy [ones] inside that didn’t go down,” Landers said. “Then the lay-ups [Auburn] got in transition, and then of course the big offensive rebound they got on that missed free throw.”

Georgia was badly out-shot at the foul line, as the Lady Bulldogs went 5-9 compared to the Tigers 20-24.

“On a couple of our missed lay-ups, we missed them because of the reason that we didn’t want to be fouled, we didn’t carry the ball to the basket and try to get a three point play on a lay-up,” Landers said. “We tried to avoid contact which caused us to miss lay-ups.”