SOU-Corban Boxscore

After dropping four straight games, the Southern Oregon men's basketball team made it two in a row with a 75-73 victory over Corban tonight at McNeal Pavilion.

The Raiders are now 5-9 overall and 3-2 in Cascade Conference play. Corban fell to 4-10 overall and 0-5 in conference action.

Junior Jarrad Childs (Paso Robles, Calif./Paso Robles) led the Raiders in scoring for the second straight night with 23 points. He also added five assists and three steals. Scott Tiefenthaler (Spanaway, Wash./Bethel) finished with 14 points and Eli Thornton (Victorville, Calif./Victorville) had 12 points and seven assists.

Clay Martin led Corban with 18 points.

Corban came out hot and shot 48 percent en route to a 36-31 halftime lead.

But the Raiders chipped away in the second half.

After trimming the lead to one four times in the second half, the Raiders tied the game at 69-69 on a Thornton 3-pointer.

After Corban took the lead back, Thornton scored on a layup to give SOU a 72-71 lead and a layup by Josh McDermott (Ashland, Ore./Ashland) had the Raiders up 74-71 with 49 seconds to play. Jackson added a free throw with 31 seconds left to ice the game.

SOU travels to Oregon Tech Tuesday night.