SOU-Northwest Boxscore 

The Southern Oregon men's basketball team shot 46 percent from the field and made some clutch free throws down the stretch to knock off Northwest University 68-55 tonight at McNeal Pavilion.

Southern Oregon has now won two in a row and improved to 7-13 overall and 5-6 in Cascade Conference play. Northwest fell to 10-10 overall and 4-7 in conference action. The two teams entered Friday night's matchup tied for the final two playoff spots.

Junior Jarrad Childs (Paso Robles, Calif./Paso Robles) led the Raiders with 19 points and Eli Thornton (Victorville, Calif./Victorville) had 18. Humphrey Jackson (Redwood City, Calif./Woodside) had eight points and seven assists.

Eddie Coulson led Northwest with 15 points.

After Northwest took an early 8-6 lead, the Raiders quickly tied the game and led 30-26 at half and would never trail again.

A two-handed breakaway dunk by senior Josh McDermott (Ashland, Ore./Ashland) gave SOU a 56-49 lead with 4:40 to play.

Northwest then began fouling the Raiders, one of the worst free throw shooting teams in the conference, at the 4:00 mark.

SOU responded by going 7 of 10 during that stretch and finishing off the game with a Thornton fastbreak dunk.

The Raiders have a rematch with 10th-ranked Evergreen State Saturday night at McNeal. The Raiders knocked off Evergreen Monday night.